man. young man. there was no evidence to convict him, nothing much whatsoever. but he s executed. richard reyna was not able to save ruben s life. because the naacp hadn t hired him to investigate the case until ten years after ruben s execution. as long as no one is held accountable, these things are going to continue. people are going to be falsely accused, sentenced to die or even executed. my brother was innocent. and i just want his name cured. when it all comes out, i want the state of texas to come out and make it public and apologize to our family. the district attorney said, all we want is money. it ain t about the money. all the money in the world is not going to bring my brother back. but at least i ll have comfort knowing he s been cleared. while this case wasn t brght to lise olsen until 11 years after ruben was killed, for her, the stakes were clear.
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it it is all [ bleep ]. i was ready for just about anything. when i was contacted by lise olsen, whom i did not know, i had no idea that there had ever been a question about the result in the cantu case or that anybody was looking at it for that matter. i met with him in his office in a quiet room. we spent an hour. i took him through it step by step slowly. i showed him the fact that juan moreno had said that he had never believed that ruben cantu was the shooter. that he felt that he had to identify cantu because that s who police wanted him to identify. lise had also uncovered information about officers bill ewell and joe de la luz, who both had a vested interest in fingering ruben cantu as the killer. both bill ewell and joe de la luz had a history of disciplinary problems.
they said, yes, he was. they kept telling me they knew that it was him. i knew in my heart it wasn t him. but i was pressured and pressured all the time. so i used the name ruben cantu. in addition to not speaking english, juan moreno was an illegal immigrant. the fact is that he was in the country illegally. he was apparently concerned as anyone would be about deportation. so to claim that he felt pressure is entirely credible. richard now felt certain that san antonio police had pressured juan moreno into fingering the wrong man. but after seeing how the texas courts had handled ruben s case, richard turned to investigative reporter lise olsen for help. lise reported on crime and corruption at the houston chronicle. i got a tip that a private detective, who i later learned
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