He would have allowed Gutierrez to bring his claims for DNA testing. In his view, there is no “meaningful distinction” between Gutierrez’s case and that of Rodney Reed, another man on death ...

The death row inmate, Ruben Gutierrez, appealed a lower court's ruling against his challenge to a Texas law limiting the use of DNA testing after a person has been convicted of a crime.

The U.S. Supreme Court was seemingly divided Monday on a Texas death row inmate’s claim that the state is constitutionally obligated to provide DNA testing on evidence he says would prove he ...