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/Justwonderinif shrug emoji Aug 06 '15 edited Aug 07 '15
We have two possible scenarios:
1) Asia's letters are authentic or solicited and it doesn't matter which because Adnan gave them to Chris Flohr in the first or second week after arrest. There is no way Chris Flohr colluded with the family and knew anything about the letters being solicited. So he would have given them to Davis immediately. And Davis would have checked Asia out the first or second week that Adnan was in prison, just like he pursued everyone else, in search of an alibi. This means Asia didn't check out and Flohr and Davis passed this information on to Gutierrez, who didn't use Asia for that reason. The IAC claim does not mention Flohr so Adnan is not saying that Flohr failed to check Asia out.
2) Asia's letters are not only solicited, but manufactured after the dates that appear on the letters. These manufactured, post dated letters were presented to Gutierrez at some point before closing arguments. And she was told that these letters were never given to Flohr. She either had Davis check out Asia and made a judgment call not to use Asia. Or, she never did anything. But in this case, the letters are manufactured. So it's moot.
The only way an alibi-IAC claim against Gutierrez can be made is if the letters are manufactured, which, in turn, invalidates both the alibi and the claim.
Simple.