
By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer
VAN NUYS - The odds were against Juan Catalan when he appeared for his preliminary hearing in Judge Leslie A. Dunn's courtroom.
A witness had pegged him as the gunman in the execution-style killing of a 16-year-old girl as she stood in front of her San Fernando Valley home the night of May 12, 2003.
Catalan swore he was not their guy. He was 20 miles away at the time, he insisted, at a Los Angeles Dodg... (continued)