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The Phone Call You Just Got — What the SCOTUS Denial in Flores v. Texas Actually Means The call comes early. Maybe before sunrise, maybe after midnight. On the other end is the news every Texas capital-defense lawyer and every family of a Texas death row inmate dreads: the United States Supreme Court has denied certiorari. No comment. No explanation. The petition is closed. If you are Charles Flores, or someone who loves him, that one-paragraph order is the cruelest piece of paper in American law. Twenty-seven years on death row. A hypnotically refreshed eyewitness identification that the Texas Legislature itself has now declared inadmissible. A witness who, before hypnosis, told police both suspects were white men with long hair — then, thirteen months after the crime, identified Mr. Flores in court. Mr. Flores is Hispanic. He had short hair. The hypnosis was conducted by a Farmers Branch police officer who had never performed hypnosis before. And on June 15, 2026, the Supreme Court declined, without explanation, to force the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to revisit the case. This page is not written to add to the noise. We are the Manginello Law Firm — Attorney911 — a Texas…