Long Shot

236 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:29,000 I asked Alma to find the tickets, but not to touch them. 237 00:13:29,083 --> 00:13:31,333 We turned the apartment upside down. 238 00:13:31,416 --> 00:13:33,208 Couldn't find the tickets... 239 00:13:33,291 --> 00:13:35,541 I'm going to show you three tickets here. 240 00:13:35,625 --> 00:13:38,166 ... until finally, I found a Dodger envelope. 241 00:13:38,250 --> 00:13:40,916 [Todd] Which of these tickets was the one that you possessed? 242 00:13:42,500 --> 00:13:45,583 The next thing that I did was I contacted Sam Fernandez. 243 00:13:45,666 --> 00:13:48,083 Senior Vice President, General Counsel for the Dodgers. 244 00:13:49,416 --> 00:13:52,166 I don't really know what was going through my mind 245 00:13:52,250 --> 00:13:53,916 when I received that call. 246 00:13:54,500 --> 00:13:57,458 "Well, here's another interesting day at the office," if you will. 247 00:13:58,666 --> 00:14:01,000 He came to the stadium and we walked down to the seats. 248 00:14:01,500 --> 00:14:03,750 [Todd] I wanted to take photos of the seats, 249 00:14:03,833 --> 00:14:06,375 where they were in relation to the Dodger dugout. 250 00:14:07,125 --> 00:14:10,250 [chuckles] I mean, I am standing in Dodger Stadium. 251 00:14:11,833 --> 00:14:13,375 [Juan] I was shackled up 252 00:14:13,916 --> 00:14:19,875 and put into a individual cage in the jail bus. 253 00:14:20,708 --> 00:14:22,791 I definitely felt... 254 00:14:24,625 --> 00:14:26,708 that it had just become... 255 00:14:27,833 --> 00:14:30,333 That... it just became real. 256 00:14:30,416 --> 00:14:33,291 I saw a county bus. I was coming home from work. 257 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:35,166 Uh... 258 00:14:35,250 --> 00:14:38,500 And I just had this weird feeling inside of me, 259 00:14:38,583 --> 00:14:41,500 and I just broke down crying by myself in the car. 260 00:14:43,166 --> 00:14:45,666 Juan got his phone call later on that evening, 261 00:14:45,750 --> 00:14:48,916 and calls me and tells me, "Alma, I saw you on the freeway." 262 00:14:49,333 --> 00:14:50,708 I'm like, "No way!" 263 00:14:50,791 --> 00:14:52,750 He's like, "I saw you on the freeway." 264 00:14:53,208 --> 00:14:56,041 He's like, "I saw you. You were about to get the 5 to go home, 265 00:14:56,125 --> 00:14:58,166 and we kept going the opposite way." 266 00:14:58,250 --> 00:15:00,750 He's like, "I wish I could have jumped out of that window 267 00:15:00,833 --> 00:15:01,875 and go home with you." 268 00:15:05,583 --> 00:15:07,875 [Fernandez] Really, what he was looking for was some way 269 00:15:07,958 --> 00:15:09,541 of trying to identify the people 270 00:15:09,625 --> 00:15:11,791 who may have been sitting around his client, 271 00:15:11,875 --> 00:15:15,083 who could actually testify that his client was there. 272 00:15:15,708 --> 00:15:18,666 [Todd] They are season tickets that Juan got from somebody. 273 00:15:18,750 --> 00:15:22,000 Because someone's a season ticket holder doesn't mean they were at that game. 274 00:15:23,333 --> 00:15:26,583 [Todd] So we tracked down people as far west as Hawaii, 275 00:15:27,083 --> 00:15:29,416 and as far east as Chicago. 276 00:15:29,916 --> 00:15:33,666 Everybody we talked to: "You know, I really didn't see them well enough 277 00:15:33,750 --> 00:15:35,875 that I would feel comfortable testifying." 278 00:15:36,500 --> 00:15:41,125 [Juan] They transferred me to supermax, which is maximum security, 279 00:15:41,208 --> 00:15:43,458 with the hardest criminals there. 280 00:15:43,958 --> 00:15:49,041 You really don't know what fear is 281 00:15:49,125 --> 00:15:53,541 until you hear a grown man screaming for help. 282 00:15:56,083 --> 00:15:59,750 [Todd] There's another set of cameras called Dodger Vision. 283 00:16:00,625 --> 00:16:04,375 [Fernandez] Dodger Vision is what you see on the big video screens at the stadium. 284 00:16:04,458 --> 00:16:06,166 Our in-house filming. 285 00:16:06,791 --> 00:16:09,666 [Todd] I painstakingly went through the videos, 286 00:16:09,750 --> 00:16:13,791 trying to find Juan among 40,000 people. 287 00:16:15,250 --> 00:16:16,791 [laughs] A staggering number, yes. 288 00:16:18,666 --> 00:16:20,208 [Todd] Since I knew where Juan was, 289 00:16:20,291 --> 00:16:23,500 it was very easy to see the block of seats and count the rows down. 290 00:16:24,208 --> 00:16:27,375 Every time a right-handed batter came up to bat, 291 00:16:27,458 --> 00:16:31,166 I was looking for Juan or his friends in the background. 292 00:16:31,916 --> 00:16:34,458 I felt that I was getting framed. 293 00:16:34,541 --> 00:16:39,083 I know you hear these stories of people being exonerated 294 00:16:39,166 --> 00:16:41,791 25, 30 years later. 295 00:16:42,875 --> 00:16:46,416 And that would play in my head over and over and over. 296 00:16:47,541 --> 00:16:50,041 [Todd] I was putting everything on super slo-mo. 297 00:16:50,125 --> 00:16:53,708 It took me an entire day to go through a three-hour game, 298 00:16:53,