The US Supreme Court sided with Texas death-row inmate Rodney Reed in a dispute over deadlines for DNA-testing challenges that could impact whether innocent people are imprisoned and even executed.
In a 6-3 ruling on Wednesday, three court conservatives joined the three liberal justices in deciding Reed didn’t wait too long to file his federal civil-rights claims involving state DNA-testing procedures.
Reed said the clock starts at the end of state-court litigation denying crime-scene evidence testing, including appeals, while Texas officials said it starts when the state trial court denies testing.
The court agreed with Reed in an opinion by ...