Amici Supporting Texas Prisoner Charles Flores Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Hear His Innocence Claims, Including Those Based on Discredited ‘Investigative Hypnosis’ Evidence

Amici Supporting Texas Prisoner Charles Flores Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Hear His Innocence Claims, Including Those Based on Discredited ‘Investigative Hypnosis’ Evidence

On March 12, 2026, a diverse group of voic­es filed *ami­cus curi­ae* briefs in sup­port of Charles Flores (pic­tured), a Texas death-sen­tenced pris­on­er, urg­ing the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case. Mr. Flores has spent more than 25 years on death row for a mur­der he main­tains he did not com­mit. His con­vic­tion relied on the tes­ti­mo­ny of a neigh­bor who iden­ti­fied him — for the first time, at tri­al — only after being hyp­no­ti…