but in appeal after appeal ruben s case was denied in both texas and federal courts. do you feel like anyone is taking your issue seriously? absolutely not. i would get more review on a car theft case than i would on a capital murder case in texas. ruben s lawyer felt the case against him was weak because the only evidence was juan moreno s testimony. and that was it. there was no other evidence in the case. no circumstantial evidence, no physical evidence, no firearm, no nothing. and that was the entirety of the state s case on a 17-year-old boy. but lack of evidence was not sufficient grounds to win an appeal. on appeal, guilt or innocence is never the issue. what our constitution promises every criminal defendant is a fair trial. and because the trial was so clean, there was no basis, no
if you are taking viberzi,. .you should not take medicines that cause constipation. the most common side effects of viberzi. .include constipation, nausea, and abdominal pain. stay ahead of ibs-d with viberzi. in 1985, sam millsap successfully sent juvenile offender ruben cantu to death row for the murder of pedro gomez. it was not a difficult decision in 1985 to prosecute the case as a capital murder case. because we had a survivor of a brutal crime who was able to identify cantu. we had a survivor of a brutal crime who was able to identify cantu. but there are things that i know
there s never been an executed offender in modern history exonerated. it was something that would be historic. it was going to be a story that was going to have reverberations. in 2005, after months of investigation, lise was ready to publish her articles about ruben cantu s innocence. but first, she had to confront former district attorney sam millsap. juan moreno retracting his testimony just destroyed the case. this was game-changing. and the person who could have changed this game was sam millsap, the elected district attorney, the person who decides whether we seek the death penalty in a capital murder case. so i drove to san antonio. lise was about to publicly challenge one of the biggest decisions of sam millsap s career.
but in appeal after appeal, ruben s case was denied in both texas and federal courts. do you feel like anyone is taking your issue seriously? absolutely not. i would get more review on a car theft case than i would on a capital murder case in texas. ruben s lawyer felt the case against him was weak because the only evidence was juan moreno s testimony. and that was it. there was no other evidence in the case. no circumstantial evidence, no firearm, no nothing. that was the entirety of the state s case on a 17-year-old boy. lack of evidence was not sufficient grounds to win an appeal. on appeal, guilt or innocence is never the issue. what our constitution promises every criminal defendant is a fair trial. because the trial was so clean, there was no basis, no error that had been committed during
now, if juan moreno says, i ll spend a day with you, i need to reimburse him on whatever he loses. that s the standard thing to do. we have never had anyone ever, anyone ever, ever question that, except susan reed. juan moreno had absolutely nothing to gain by making a decision to go public with his story. the biggest newspaper in the state of texas is going to say that he had identified the wrong person in a capital murder case. which he felt bad about. as far as susan reed was concerned, if juan s story about ruben s innocence was true, she would take aggressive action. i have very strong feelings that someone who commits perjury that results in someone being executed needs to be held accountable. my primary concern when all of this arose was, is there sufficient cause to indict juan