The photo six-pack was a complete fake. Federal and state courts throughout the country have repeatedly upheld the right of police officers to lie to people they have in custody.
Interrogation rooms, experts say, are freewheeling places. Detectives lie frequently, typically telling a suspect that they have DNA evidence or video footage or witnesses. Sometimes they go the extra step of making up documents to bolster their lies. Detectives are not allowed to strike deals with suspects in exchange for a confession, and they are not allowed to threaten them with bodily harm. When a police officer believes someone may be in danger because of their involvement in a case, Kilcoyne and others said, it is standard procedure to warn the person and offer them protection.
And a detailed log the detectives kept of their investigation shows no indication that they had contact with Puebla or her parents after they used the girl to bait Ledesma during the interrogation.
A federal prosecutor involved in the case said he recalled seeing notes from a meeting at which officials from the L. She was a reluctant and unhelpful witness, as she had been with Pinner and Rodriguez the morning of the shooting, telling the prosecutor that she had not seen the shooter.
She said she had not seen much of anything at all. Her testimony, however, either did nothing to placate Ledesma or he was unable to stop the killing he had ordered. Last year, in a federal plea deal to avoid the death penalty, Ledesma, Covarrubias and the gang member thought to be the gunman admitted to taking part in killing Puebla.
A fourth Vineland Boyz member who participated is thought to have fled to Mexico and is being sought, a federal prosecutor said. With the arrival of federal authorities, Pinner and Rodriguez were phased out as the lead investigators. They soon were separated as partners. Rodriguez was transferred to an auto theft detail and is currently assigned to a vice unit. Pinner remains a homicide detective in North Hollywood. Juan Catalan sat in jail for five months awaiting trial until his lawyer turned up video footage showing Catalan was at a Dodgers game at the time of the shooting.
The day the detectives arrested Juan Catalan, they thought they had the right man. They brought him into an interview room in the same North Hollywood station where they had grilled Ledesma nine months before. Once again they switched on a recorder. He asked to take a lie-detector test. Pinner told Catalan that people had seen him shoot the girl. He pushed three six-packs in front of him. His picture was circled. Witnesses had signed their names.
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And his defense attorney Todd Melnick discovered that cameras had been at the baseball ground to film an episode of the comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm called 'The Carpool Lane'. The show then follows how Todd's legal team then were allowed to scour hours of footage taken that night to try and find pictures to prove that Juan was part of the 56, crowd.
And eventually they found proof of Juan walking his young daughter to their seats inside the stadium. And now Juan is hoping to get a place at university to study business administration and is now a huge fan of Curb of Enthusiasm. He told the New York Post : "That show is hilarious. The Carpool Lane is obviously my favorite episode. While representatives for the Los Angeles City Council confirm the amount of the settlement, it does not come with any admission of wrongdoing on the part of police officers or the city.
Catalan still works in the family business, but Casselman suggested he remains traumatized by the five months he spent in jail wrongly accused. Before his arrest for murder, Catalan said he never watched "Curb Your Enthusiasm. We'll notify you here with news about. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Comments 0. Top Stories. Russia warns of Cuba, Venezuela deployment if tensions mount 18 minutes ago. Debunking the idea viruses evolve to become less virulent Jan 13, AM.
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