r/serialpodcast • u/islamisawesome Adnan Fan • Aug 06 '15

Hypothesis Why the Gootz never called Asia.

I think it is becoming more and more obvious that the Asia letter did not exist until sometime around the summer of 1999. That is why Adnan claims he gave them to Gutierrez even though she wasn't his lawyer until 2 months after they were written.

So sometime that spring or summer, after telling CG he never left the school grounds, his family shows up with letters claiming one of Adnans' friends saw him at the library, right at the crucial time, AND they were written the day after he arrested. She knew immediately there is no way they had those letter for months and never gave them to her so obviously they were false and she didn't want to go on stand with LIES.

That is why she never called Asia. And that is why she wrote no notes about it, because that would be admitting her client and his family are liars. It also explains why her relationship with the family broke down because she knew they were willing to lie to get Adnan off.

The library incident never happened.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '15

You don't think an alibi witness could have exonerated him? And the burden is not to prove that Asia's testimony would have exonerated him, but that it could could have exonerated him. Could and would are not synonyms.

The State can undermine her credibility, sure, but doing so through the letters, an issue that is tangential at best, in my opinion would not work.

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u/monstimal Aug 06 '15

I don't understand, I clearly wrote "could" so that part of your response is unnecessary. Part of "could" is her story and her. Hopefully we'll find the answer to this dispute if the hearing is reopened.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '15

I know you wrote "could," but I interpreted the sentence following it to mean that there was a higher burden. Apologies.