a supporter of cantu tried to block the camera minutes after the jury returned with their decision that cantu shex kuyted. district attorney sam milsap agreed with the jury s verdict. ruben cantu arguably received a perfect trial. i say that because he had a fair judge. he had a very fine defense lawyer. he had an ethical prosecutor. and the jury made the only decision that they could make under the circumstances. ruben s accomplice, a man named david garza, received 20 years. cantu was sent to solitary confinement at the huntsville state penitentiary, 230 miles east of san antonio. from his cell, ruben wrote a letter addressed to the citizens of san antonio. this was a letter he wrote not long after he was convicted.