The Junk Science Hypnosis Video that put Charles Flores on TX Death Row

Описание: Charles Don Flores of Irving, Texas was convicted and sentenced to death in Dallas County in April 1999 for the January 29, 1998, shooting death and attempted robbery of Betty Black, which occurred in her home in Farmers Branch, Texas.

Flores has consistently maintained his innocence. No physical evidence has ever linked him to the crime scene—no DNA, fingerprints, or ballistics. He remains on death row, out of mandatory appeals.

Charles never matched the description of the perpetrator. Jill Barganier, the only eyewitness to identify him--for the first time, during his trial--had initially described seeing “two white males” with “long, dirty hair” who looked “similar.” She was unable to identify Flores in any of the photo lineups presented to her at the time of the crime—likely because he was not a white male with long hair, but a large Hispanic male with short, shaved hair.

The State then used “forensic hypnosis” to influence the memory of the eyewitness. After a suggestive hypnosis session conducted by a police officer involved in the investigation, Mrs. Bargainer later said she was “more than 100% certain” she had seen Flores the morning of the crime. This identification of him occurred 13 months after the crime, in the middle of Flores’s trial in the courtroom when he, the only Hispanic in the courtroom, was seated at the defense table. This so-called “identification,” made in the middle of trial, was the State’s only evidence placing Flores at the crime scene. The use of testimony obtained following “forensic hypnosis“ has, as of September 2023, been banned in Texas.

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