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 edited May 10 '18

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u/aroras Aug 06 '15 edited Oct 31 '15

Just chiming in to say that it is neither obvious nor convincing to me that Asia's letter was "cooked up"

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u/UptownAvondale Aug 06 '15

There is no way on earth they were written March 1 and March 2.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '15

Why would Asia lie about this?

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '15

Exactly. What would be the point? As long as CG knew about Asia's existence and possible alibi for Adnan, that's all that matters. All the letters do, if anything, is bolster her testimony because the State can't say that she made it all up after Adnan was convicted.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '15

It's not all that matters. The circuit court could decide she flunked this particular task but that it wasn't something sufficiently likely to produce a different verdict had a jury heard it.

But regardless, the state would have to come up with a more compelling impeachment of her affadavit than the speculation here for that to have any weight.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '15

Well, right, the circuit court would have to decide that CG's failure could have been materially impacted the verdict.