Talk:Ruben Cantu

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The information about the police interviews was incorrect, if the Houston Chronicle article is to be believed. I included some discussion of the reporter's claims. From the Chronicle: "Moreno remained in critical condition on a breathing machine — unable to talk and unable to write because of massive internal injuries. Eventually, he lost a lung, a kidney and part of his stomach.

In another visit six days after the murder, Moreno 'could barely talk,' Herring wrote in his report. But Moreno gave Herring a few more details on his attackers: two Latin-American males, one 13 or 14 and the other 19. He said he had seen the younger teen around the neighborhood. It wasn't much."

This sentence from the Chronicle article appears to be significant: "Then a neighborhood beat officer passed along a rumor from the halls of South San Antonio High School, where Cantu was in ninth grade. A shop teacher reported that three kids had been involved in the robbery and murder of Gomez and that students were saying Cantu had done the killing." But I am not sure where the information should be added.

The initial claim that it is widely believed that Cantu is innocent is not verified. A source for that doubtful claim should be provided, otherwise it should be removed or edited.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Don Kozlov (talk • contribs)

Most of the reason for Rubin Cantu's postumous fame is a wide beleif in his innocence, or doubts about his guilt at minimum. The head prosecutor, the jury forewoman, the co-defendant, and the surviving victum have all made public statements indicating that Cantu was at best, wrongly convicted, and at worst, not involved at all. Even the current prosecutor is talking about bringing murder charges against the surviving victum over Cantu's wrongful execution. That's pretty convincing to me. Loqi T. 07:28, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

I've removed the NPOV tag since although material from the 2007 Reed report still needs to be incorporated (this admittedly has not been done as of today) the main POV problem has been corrected. The main POV problem was minimizing of the fact that Cantu gunned someone down in a bar. There were many witnesses and Cantu himself admitted it. If he's "innocent" of the crime charged is he still innocent without qualification? Also, not everyone is capable of shooting at another human being like that, such that the shooting itself constituted some character evidence that supplemented to some degree the witness identification.--Brian Dell (talk) 18:37, 28 August 2011 (UTC)