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Juan ostensibly could have left early, driven to the scene of the crime, and still had time to kill Puebla. But then the cellphone records came in — showing that Juan had picked up when his girlfriend rang him at p.

The call had pinged a tower near Dodger Stadium. He finally had a clean and clear alibi. After sitting in jail for five and a half months, Juan was released when Judge Leslie Dunn dismissed the case at a preliminary hearing. Only by happenstance did he get tickets to go to the game that night. Due to a clerical error, he had to report back to county jail two days later.

Melnik had assumed it would be cleared up in 24 hours. Instead, Juan, a declared-innocent man, was there for two hell-filled weeks. In , gang member Raul Robledo received a life term for the murder. Juan and his lawyer, Melnik, have become best friends, playing basketball and taking in Lakers and Dodgers games together.

Juan is also friendly with Judge Dunn, the woman who freed him. With her encouragement, the father of three earned his associate degree in general education. Walking into that stadium. I feel at home. Contact The Author Name required. Email required. The debate on second reading of the Bill during the Wednesday sitting kicked off on a rocky path with those opposed the Bill challenging the constitutionality of the clauses contained in the legislative proposal.

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Bloom read in the newspaper that the FBI had arrested close to individuals in a large-scale mob roundup. Obviously Molly Bloom did hire lawyers, but Charlie Jaffey is a fictional character. When writing the screenplay, Aaron Sorkin did not interview Bloom's real-life lawyer, Jim Walden pictured below, right.

Sorkin said he wanted to be able to fictionalize the character to best serve the story and not have to worry about keeping him historically accurate. In researching how accurate Molly's Game is, we discovered that as the game began to get out of control, so did Molly's life.

She ended up addicted to drugs. Her poker customers came to include men from the Russian mob. She often found herself being stiffed cash she was owed. This prompted her to take a percentage of the pot in order to operate as the bank, a move that caught the attention of the Feds. I was essentially loaning them money, guaranteeing that money.

I had to figure out - I had to do background checks and vet them to see if they were good for it. And I was getting stiffed a lot. I had to write big checks for people that didn't pay. So I started taking a percentage of the pot like Vegas does. And that was when I crossed over and broke a federal law. That's how the celebrities got outed. That's how they found out about this game. And then, the feds started secretly following me and listening to our conversations.

The investors claimed the celebrities had won cash from Ruderman that belonged to them. It's somewhat obvious that "Player X" represents Tobey Maguire, who plays the biggest part in Bloom's memoir, but there's not an exact one-to-one correlation between the two. According to the true story, another actor took control of the weekly game, and Bloom writes that Maguire was the one who called her and giddily informed her that she had lost the game, as "Player X" does in the movie.