The US Supreme Court has turned down the death penalty appeal of an Irving man regarding a case that reaches back into the '90s.
Without comment, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case of Charles Don Flores who was convicted of the 1998 shooting death of 64-year-old Betty Black of Farmers Branch. Black was killed in her home during a burglary. Police arrested Flores and another man named Richard Childs.
During Flores' trial, prosecutors called a neighbor as a witness who had been hypnotized to help her memory.
"This particular one is so fraught with problems and factual complexities - it's not the kind of case that they would normally take up, but it's exactly the kind of case that needs to be reexamined," Flores's attorney, Gretchen Sween said.
The case will now go back to a trial judge for a new execution date.
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