You've been charged with a murder and your alibi is that you were at a baseball game. But your lawyer can't spot you on the televised footage, and you can't prove it. You better hope that Curb Your Enthusiasm just happens to be shooting in the stadium that day like it was for this guy.

Catalan, 28, was arrested for the May 2003 slaying of Martha Puebla, 16, outside her Sun Valley home. He told detectives he was innocent and was at a Dodgers game when the crime occurred.

His defense lawyer, Todd Melnik, went through footage of crowd shots from the televised game between the Dodgers and the Atlanta Braves, but did not find his client. Then he learned that the HBO comedy starring former "Seinfeld" co-creator Larry David had been shooting at the ballpark that day.

"There he was in the outtakes," said Gary S. Casselman, the attorney handling Catalan's lawsuit. "He's glad it's over." The scene, which ended up on the cutting room floor, showed Catalan with his 6-year-old daughter and two friends. The footage was time coded, confirming that Catalan was at the ballpark shortly before the time of the murder 20 miles away. Records of a cell phone call, made from Dodger Stadium, between Catalan and his girlfriend also helped persuade a judge to release him.

Someone else is now being prosecuted for the slaying, Casselman said. Catalan was not a fan of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" before his time in jail. "He is now," Casselman said.

While he was cleared of the charges back in 2004, he's now getting $320,000 from the Los Angeles City Council as the result of a police misconduct lawsuit. He had spent 5 months in jail on the charges.