In June 2025, Charles’ legal team filed two documents in The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and the 195th District Court of Dallas County: a Writ of Habeas Corpus and a Suggestion to Reconsider on the Court’s Own Initiative.
The Writ of Habeas Corpus raises three new bases for relief and four new claims. The filings also include a Request for Oral Argument, stating:
In particular, there is a need for a reasoned decision from this Court about the current status of “investigative hypnosis” under Texas law and the larger issue of the consensus scientific opinion regarding the reliability of eyewitness identifications more generally. The statutory law has changed since this Court considered Flores’s 02 hypnosis junk-science claim, which was denied based on now-superseded caselaw regarding the reliability of investigative hypnosis, merits reconsideration. Thus, a Suggestion to Reconsider is also being filed in the 02 and 03 writ proceedings. This application is based on yet more new evidence of actual innocence, changed scientific understanding in the field of eyewitness identification, and official misconduct.
You can read both filings here: