Texas’ highest criminal court has once again denied a Dallas County man’s appeal challenging his death sentence for a 1998 Farmers Branch murder that relied on what his attorneys say was flawed eyewitness testimony involving hypnosis.

The Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) on Thursday denied Charles Don Flores’ habeas application alleging a new scientific consensus on the reliability of eyewitness identification proves he deserves a new trial.

It was Flores’ fourth post-conviction appeal in 25 years, and the court found the appeal hadn’t met the necessary requirements.

“There were these new claims with new evidence — that was all dismissed without considering the new claims and the new evidence on procedural grounds,” Gretchen Sween, Flores’ post-conviction attorney, told KERA News. “And

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