How Curb Your Enthusiasm Saved a Man from Death Row
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HBO’s hit show Curb Your
HBO’s hit show Curb Your Enthusiasm has crafted many interesting yarns over the course of it’s ten-season run, but few of it’s fictional narratives have matched the real-life tale of the man that the show helped save from death row. During the show’s fourth season, an episode was being filmed at Dodger Stadium. Some of the footage that was taken by the camera crew just so happened to feature a man that was being charged with the murder of a 16-year-old girl and was using his attendance at that very game as an alibi. The footage was subsequently used to help exonerate the man of the crime. This man was 24-year-old Juan Catalan.
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The murder in question was the 2003 murder of Martha Puebla. Juan was suspected due to Martha having testified against his brother in court. Juan was put in prison, and was forced to stay for six months before being released due to phone records and the Curb Your Enthusiasm footage. Upon release, Juan successfully sued the city of Los Angeles, as well as the LAPD. Martha’s true murderers were later found. Among the guilty parties was the young woman’s ex-boyfriend, Jose Ledesma. Though Juan faced the death penalty, the four guilty parties received life without parole.
Many years after these events occurred, a New York film school student happened upon the story while perusing Curb Your Enthusiasm’s IMDb entry. The young man saw the perfect opportunity to make a documentary short subject, and went to work securing funding to fly out to California and conduct interviews with the parties involved. In addition to Juan and his lawyer, the interviewees included Larry David himself. This documentary was released on Netflix as Long Shot in 2017, the same year Curb Your Enthusiasm premiered it’s ninth season. Join Trender as we explore how Curb Your Enthusiasm saved a man from death row.
How Curb Your Enthusiasm Saved a Man from Death Row
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