Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that he says will prove he’s not a murderer.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Ruben Gutierrez, a man sentenced to death in Texas, can move forward with a federal civil rights lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state's DNA testing procedures.

A Texas death row inmate has standing to bring a §1983 due process claim challenging the state’s postconviction DNA testing procedures, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 in reversing a decision from the 5th Circuit.