The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...

A hearing regarding new DNA testing of items from the West Memphis Three case has been moved to Aug. 1. The hearing was previously scheduled for July 23, but some attorneys had conflicts with that ...

Federal Courts Now an Avenue for Inmates to Challenge Texas DNA Testing Laws The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas death row inmate can sue state officials in federal court to pursue ...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA testing in a bid to test evidence he says would block his execution. Ruben ...

Gutierrez filed a §1983 lawsuit in federal court against Luis Saenz, the district attorney who has custody of the untested evidence. Gutierrez argued that Texas’ state post-conviction DNA testing ...

A woman who submitted her DNA for genetic testing 'on a whim' could never have predicted that the results would change her ...

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with a Texas death row inmate in a challenge over whether he had standing to sue a district attorney who refused to test DNA evidence.

The majority concluded that Texas's Chapter 64 procedures, as interpreted by the Texas courts, unconstitutionally impeded Gutierrez from obtaining DNA testing that could potentially substantiate ...

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However, it's not clear if the testing method works equally well for all tumor types. "Some organs will shed tumor DNA more ...

A hearing regarding new DNA testing of items from the West Memphis Three case has been moved to Aug. 1.