SAN ANTONIO — A former San Antonio street gang member on death row for nearly a decade for the slaying of a woman during a robbery is getting a chance for a new sentence.

Gabriel Gonzales' death sentence was thrown out Wednesday in a 6-2 vote of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which ruled defense lawyers at his 1997 capital murder trial should have shown jurors evidence that Gonzales was sexually abused as a child and the resulting post-traumatic stress disorder followed him into adulthood.

"There is at least a reasonable probability," the court said in its decision that evidence of abuse might have persuaded a jury to spare Gonzales, who is 32 now and was 20 at the time of the crime.

The ruling upholds the conviction but allows him to have a new sentencing trial.