Supreme Court grants request to lift block on Mountain Valley PipelineĭOT announces rule to make airplane bathrooms more accessible Underlying Reed’s dispute is his claim that Texas law regarding DNA testing violates constitutional due process protections.
He first sought the testing in 1999, but the state refused, instead scheduling an execution date. The justices’ move Monday to grant review is just the latest development in Reed’s long battle in the courts to secure DNA testing of the crime scene evidence. “The stakes of this question are important for anyone with substantial claims of innocence seeking DNA testing,” she added, “but they are especially important to those like Mr. Reed has a strong claim of innocence and Texas sought to close the doors to federal court review through an erroneous interpretation of the filing deadline for his federal lawsuit.”
“I was pleased to see the Supreme Court will take up the Rodney Reed case,” said Cassandra Stubbs, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s capital punishment project. In his petition to the justices, Reed’s lawyers called this procedural approach “illogical.”Īdvocates say the Supreme Court’s move to review the lower court’s interpretation is a step in the right direction. Reed is challenging a federal appeals court’s ruling that the two-year clock on his request began to run in 2014, after a Texas state court denied his bid for DNA testing but while state-level appeals were pending.
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Lower federal courts are divided over whether the clock begins when a trial court denies the request or whether it begins after the appeals process plays out. The issue before the Supreme Court is a technical one dealing with when the window closed for Reed to request for DNA testing.
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