The Supreme Court declined to hear Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed's bid for DNA testing again, nearly three years after allowing his bid to prove his innocence to proceed. Reed was convicted of the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites but maintains his innocence. His lawyers argued that the murder weapon, a webbed belt used to strangle Stites, could reveal the truth. However, the court also declined a challenge to the state's post-conviction DNA testing statute, which Reed claimed was arbitrary and violates his due process rights. The state argued that Reed's position ignored the difference between biological material and where it may be found, and suggested that more was at play than the chain-of-custody requirement.