A few days ago I wrote about the connection between my parents and the Curb Your Enthusiasm show.

As it happens, that fourth season of Curb has one its most interesting episodes, “The Car Pool Lane”.

For example, it featured Jorge Garcia in a small role, but it was enough to bring him to the attention of the producers of Lost, and so he ended up creating one of the most memorable characters in that show.

It also featured Kim Whitley as a hooker, and you’ve got to love any show that has Larry David in a car with a hooker.

The plot revolved around a bag of marijuana that Larry bought from the drug dealer that Jorge Garcia played, and as the dialog was improvised and some of the actors were of my generation they sometimes tended to call it grass.

But most memorably, a lot of the action took place in Dodgers Stadium, and the video that they ended up shooting there helped to exonerate a man who corrupt Los Angeles law enforcement had wrongly accused of murder.

The 2017 Netflix documentary Long Shot details how Juan Catalan was targeted by incompetent LA detectives based on one eyewitness and some flimsy circumstantial evidence and how Deputy Beth Silverman, who had never lost a case, was prepared to send him to a death sentence on that flimsy evidence.

Beth Silverman is an example of the worst of district attorneys, what I think I’ll call DAssholes, who are more interested in convicting anyone than finding the real culprits.

Anyway, I recommend checking out Long Shot (2017). Even after Catalan’s attorney proved that his client was at Dodger Stadium a few minutes before the murder, the DAsshole Beth Silverman still didn’t want to release him because, she claimed, there was just enough time that he could have driven over to the crime scene with his six year old daughter and shot the victim. Beth Silverman is the worst of the worst DAssholes. Sort of like Lynne Abraham that we had to put up with here in Philadelphia for years.

Anyway, there is a happy ending; watch the documentary. It’s only 40 minutes long.