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>> i had no way of anticipating his reaction, whether it was outrage, whether it was anger, whether it was i don't believe it, it's 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. t...

My brother, ruben, felt threatened. he shot the officer, not knowing he was an off-duty officer. >> officer de la luz, who was shot four times, would survive. but after ruben was arrested, police realized they had a problem. >> the fact of the matter is, ruben was never prosecuted in that bar fight where he shot a police officer. there was no case that could be made against ruben, which implies that joe de la luz drew his gun on ruben before ruben fired. otherwise, why wouldn't they have prosecuted ruben cantu for attempting to kill a police officer? >> rather than letting ruben go, sergeant b...

Joe de la luz, the officer who was shot, and he also ended up being the person who was in charge of this murder investigation. so after the shooting of bill ewell's friend, bill ewell decides to take another look at ruben cantu. >> by now, juan moreno had twice failed to identify ruben cantu as the shooter. but with ruben in custody, ewell sent a detective to juan's home. >> i took the photos, the forms and a portable typewriter. i showed juan this array. he sat there and looked at them and looked at them and looked at them and he shoved them aside and looked away from them. he said, "look, i ...