Facts of the Case - Reginald Blanton

Not my opinion, these are just the facts...


Carlos Garza was 22 when his apartment door was kicked in and he was shot to death. Reggie Blanton was Garza’s friend, and only 18, when he was arrested for the crime…


Fact #1: The only physical evidence in the case should have ruled Reggie out as
a suspect:

The shoeprint left by the murderer on Garza’s door doesn’t match Reggie’s. The police seized the shoes Reggie was wearing on the day of the murder and they are too small. Plus the “tread” on the bottom of the shoe doesn’t match. No murder weapon or DNA were ever found, so the shoeprint was the only physical evidence in the case.

Facts #2: The initial suspect in the case was never found:

A woman with Carlos Garza on the day of the murder says a man threatened Garza’s life earlier in the day. The police never found this person and never ruled him out as a suspect.

Fact#3: Tupac Shakur was indirectly linked to the murder:

The woman with Garza says the man who threatened his life was wearing a Tupac necklace. The detective in the case made a witness compare Reggie to Tupac Shakur in a meager attempt to tie Reggie to the earlier death threat.

Fact #4: The two main witnesses in the case recanted their testimony on the witness stand:

After being threatened with the death penalty Reggie’s brother and his pregnant girlfriend would both sign statements saying they heard Reggie bragging about the murder. Both would later say they were pressured into making the statements by the threat of lethal injection.

Fact #5: The detective working the case was either sloppy or careless:

The statement Reggie’s brother signed listed his social security number wrong… and listed the wrong location for the murder. The statement used words that Reggie’s brother would never use, making it obvious that the detective fed him the information.

Fact #6: The prosecution was forced to admit at trial that the jewelry they accused Reggie of taking from Carlos Garza was actually his:

The prosecution would first claim that Reggie killed Carlos to steal his jewelry. But once a witness testified that the jewelry in question was in fact Reggie’s… the prosecution changed their story. Their new theory was Reggie gave his friend Carlos the jewelry, then for some reason killed him to get it back.

Fact #7: The Bible says you need two witnesses to put a man to death for his
crimes:

The only witness willing to testify claimed that Reggie confessed to the murder while in jail.
This witness would have numerous felonies in multiple states dismissed because of his testimony against Reggie.

Reginald Blanton received the death penalty... the career criminal who testified against him walked away a free man.



"But no person shall be put to death on the testimony
of one witness"
- Numbers 35:30, Deuteronomy 17:6, 19:15