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A Texas judge<\/a> has stopped next week’s scheduled execution of a death row inmate who has long said he’s innocent so there can be more time to review his claims that he was convicted more than 20 years ago with false testimony and questionable evidence.<\/p>\n

Ivan Cantu had been condemned for the fatal shooting of his cousin, James Mosqueda, 27, and his cousin\u2019s girlfriend, Amy Kitchen, 22, during a November 2000 robbery at their north Dallas<\/a> home. Cantu has long claimed he is innocent.<\/p>\n

Cantu, 49, had been set for execution April 26. But state District Judge Benjamin Smith in Collin County, where Cantu was convicted, on Wednesday withdrew the execution date, saying more review is needed of the inmate\u2019s new claims.<\/p>\n

LONGTIME TEXAS DEATH ROW INMATE CAN PURSUE DNA TESTING FOLLOWING DECISION BY SUPREME COURT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Bill Wirskye, first assistant district attorney with the Collin County District Attorney\u2019s Office, declined to comment.<\/p>\n

“Because Mr. Cantu\u2019s case raises troubling questions that undermine the integrity of the conviction, the court\u2019s decision to withdraw the execution date to permit further review was the appropriate next step,” Gena Bunn, Cantu\u2019s attorney, said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n

Sylvia Cantu, Ivan Cantu\u2019s mother, said she remains hopeful “that all of this new evidence will finally be heard in court so that Ivan can come home.”<\/p>\n

Two of the jurors who convicted Cantu have submitted declarations stating they now have doubts about the case.<\/p>\n

“I do not want the execution of Mr. Cantu to be carried out unless a careful and thorough review of the evidence is conducted,” Maurice Jacob, one the jurors, wrote in declaration from earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors have claimed Cantu, who was convicted in 2001, killed Mosqueda, who dealt illegal drugs, and Kitchen as he tried to steal cocaine, marijuana and cash from his cousin\u2019s home. Cantu has claimed a rival drug dealer killed his cousin.<\/p>\n

In Cantu\u2019s apartment, police found bloody jeans with the victims\u2019 DNA, a key to the victims\u2019 home and a key to Kitchen\u2019s car. Police found Cantu\u2019s gun at his ex-girlfriend\u2019s home. Mosqueda\u2019s blood was found on the gun\u2019s barrel while Cantu\u2019s fingerprints were found on the gun\u2019s magazine.<\/p>\n

In a 2005 affidavit, Matthew Goeller, one of Cantu\u2019s trial attorneys, said Cantu admitted to him “that he had indeed killed Mosqueda for \u2018ripping him off\u2019 on a drug deal” and that Kitchen was killed because she was a witness.<\/p>\n

Cantu\u2019s then-girlfriend, Amy Boettcher, was the prosecution\u2019s main witness. She testified Cantu told her he was going to kill Mosqueda and Kitchen and later took her back to the crime scene after the killings.<\/p>\n

But in court documents, Bunn alleges Boettcher\u2019s testimony is riddled with false statements.<\/p>\n

Boettcher, who died in 2021, testified Cantu stole and later got rid of Mosqueda\u2019s Rolex watch. But the watch wasn\u2019t stolen and was later found by Mosqueda\u2019s family, Bunn said.<\/p>\n

EXECUTION OF TEXAS DEATH ROW INMATE WHO CUT OUT HIS EYES DELAYED AFTER CONCERNS ABOUT HIS MENTAL STATE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Boettcher told jurors Cantu proposed to her on the night of the killings<\/a> with an engagement ring he stole from Kitchen. But witnesses have since said Cantu and Boettcher had announced their engagement and showed off the ring a week before the killings, according to Bunn.<\/p>\n

Boettcher testified Cantu placed his bloody jeans and socks in their kitchen trashcan on the night of the killings. But Cantu\u2019s lawyers have questioned this because a police officer who was in his apartment the next day did not see the bloody clothes in the trashcan and they weren\u2019t discovered until several days later, supporting the defense\u2019s theory that someone else put them in the trashcan.<\/p>\n

Jeff Boettcher, Amy\u2019s brother, testified that prior to the killings, Cantu told him he planned to kill Mosqueda and Cantu had tried to recruit him to “clean up” afterward. However, Jeff Boettcher has since said he “lied” and was not a credible witness due to his history of drug abuse, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

“Absent the largely unimpeached testimony of the Boettchers, it is unlikely that Mr. Cantu would have been convicted,” Bunn said in court documents.<\/p>\n

Bunn has credited an independent probe by Matt Duff, a private investigator, with uncovering much of the new evidence in the case. Duff has chronicled his findings in a podcast called “Cousins By Blood.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-judge-delays-inmates-execution-questions-evidence-testimony-examined <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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