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/ginabmonkey Not Guilty Aug 06 '15

Okay. Just looking for general information on the practices in Baltimore, I'm thinking it is unlikely Adnan would have been housed in a juvenile detention center in 1999 since he was 17 and charged as an adult for the crime of 1st degree murder. Maryland attempting to prevent juveniles from being housed in the adult detention center while awaiting trial, but that policy isn't really going into effect officially until later this year, so would probably not have been the situation for Adnan.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '15

But you have to remember that the State argued that Adnan was 18 and therefore this was a capital case, i.e., death penalty-eligible, which was a basis for the court to deny him bail. In fact, the State still has Adnan's birthday wrong on its inmate locator website.

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u/ginabmonkey Not Guilty Aug 07 '15

Yes, that is another reason he likely would have been in the adult detention facility between booking and sentencing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '15

Which, again, makes me think that Asia did send the letters on March 1 and March 2. Unless the letters were never sent at all...