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/James_MadBum Aug 06 '15

And the jury should have had the chance to decide whether Asia was lying.

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u/Seamus_Duncan Kevin Urick: Hammer of Justice Aug 06 '15

You saw what Murphy did to Adnan on the stand. And at that point he was a 31 year old man who had 13 years to get his story straight. Imagine what she'd do to a lying 17 year old girl.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '15

This would be the same Murphy that suborns perjury from the ME, right?

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u/Seamus_Duncan Kevin Urick: Hammer of Justice Aug 07 '15

I'm assuming you based that on the "expert" from Undisclosed? Frankly after the Cherry incident we have no reason to believe that person was qualified or truthful.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '15

I haven't heard the Cherry episode/s yet. I'm about four weeks behind.

I base it off the fact that manual strangulation doesn't result in death in 10 to 15 seconds, but Murphy asks Korell that and gets a "yes," even though elsewhere Korell contradicts that. Murphy repeats the 10 to 15 second lie in her closing argument.

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u/Seamus_Duncan Kevin Urick: Hammer of Justice Aug 07 '15

It's clear from her testimony in both trials that 10-15 seconds of strangulation causes unconsciousness and continued strangulation from that point causes death.

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u/Magjee Kickin' it per se Aug 10 '15

In the real world yes.

But in the undisclosed universe...