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When Hypnosis Decides a Murder Case, the Law Has Changed The phone rings in a kitchen in Houston, in El Paso, in the Rio Grande Valley, in Lubbock, in Tyler, or in any of the thousands of Texas homes where someone is following a case they cannot look away from. On June 15, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court denied, without comment, the certiorari petition of Charles Flores — a Texas death row inmate who has been challenging his 1999 capital murder conviction for nearly three decades. The evidence that put him there was an eyewitness identification made under hypnosis, conducted by a police officer with no formal training in the procedure, thirteen months after the crime, after the witness had already told police the suspects were white men with long hair, and after the same witness had failed to identify Flores in a pre-trial photo lineup. The hypnosis changed her memory. The in-court identification came after. And Texas has now, in 2023, passed a law that would have made that evidence inadmissible in any courtroom in the state. If you are reading this page, you may be in a different part of this same story. You may be a family…