Texas bans evidence based on police ‘investigative hypnosis’ in criminal trials
based on the hypnosis. Another man, Richard Lynn Childs, pleaded guilty to the murder and agreed to serve a 35-year sentence. He has already been paroled.
Flores’ lawyer called the new law encouraging but pointed out it is not retroactive and therefore her client cannot immediately benefit from it. “But we earnestly hope this development will prompt a sincere reconsideration of his conviction where ‘investigative hypnosis,’ along with other official misconduct, played a significant role in putting an innocent man on death row,” Gretchen Sween toldDemocratic Sens. Sarah Eckhardt of Austin, Morgan LaMantia of South Padre Island and Borris Miles of Houston were also co-authors to the bill.. Lauren is an investigative reporter focused on state politics and policy.
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