Objections to District Court Judge’s Recommendations

Applicant Charles Flores, by and through counsel, respectfully requests that this Honorable Court: consider the objections presented here; withdraw its Order dated October 3, 2018 (Order), which includes Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law (FFCL) and contains a recommendation that habeas corpus relief be denied; enter revised FFCL correcting the significant mistakes of fact ... Read More

Amicus Curiae Brief filed by the Innocence Project

The Innocence Project brief agrees that the scientific understanding of memory and the ability of hypnosis to distort memory and inflated confidence in false memories has developed considerably since the time of Charles’s trial. Download the Amicus Curiae Brief in PDF filed by the Innocence Project in support of Charles Don Flores. Download Brief of ... Read More

Designed To Break You Report by Human Rights Clinic

Human Rights Violations on Texas’ Death Row – By Human Rights Clinic, University of Texas School of Law The State of Texas stands today as one of the most extensive utilizers of the death penalty worldwide. Consequently, inmate living conditions on Texas’ death row are ripe for review. This report (download in PDF) demonstrates that ... Read More

2016 Charles Don Flores Final Appeal

On May 18th, 2016, Charles Don Flores’ attorney filed his final appeal focusing on the issue that the hypnotized witnesses false identification was unreliable, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeal issued a stay of execution and ordered an evidentiary hearing on the issue of junk science/hypnosis. Download this legal document in PDF ... Read More

Texas uses hypnosis to investigate crimes. Dallas death row inmates say it’s time to stop

Published in "The Dallas Morning News" (US) on May 15, 2018 ... Read More

Texas Death Row Inmates Push For Forensic Hypnosis Ban

Published in CBS Local News on May 14, 2018 ... Read More

Death Row Case in Dallas County Puts Hypnosis on Trial as ‘Junk Science’

Published in the "Dallas Observer" (US) in March 27, 2018 ... Read More

Hypnotized witness helped put dog’s killer on death row — but grandma’s killer goes free.

Published in "The Dallas Morning News" (US) on Oct 20, 2017 ... Read More

Death Watch: The Merits of Hypnosis-Induced Testimony

Article published in "Austin Chronicle" (US) on June 3, 2016 ... Read More

Dead Man Talking

Published in Otago Daily Times (New-Zealand) on May 22, 2010 ... Read More