Read our story from earlier today on what's in the sweeping elections bill senators will debate tonight. Highlights:
- Impose uniform early voting hours statewide.
- Further empower partisan poll watchers.
- Make it easier to overturn elections. dallasnews.com/news/politics/…#txlege
"Literally dozens of hours have been devoted by all the conferees, not just Republicans, going through line by line," @travisfortexas, R-Nacogdoches, said.
ICYMI: Last year, the @dallasnews revealed TX police regularly hypnotize witnesses in criminal investigations, helping send dozens of men & women to prison — some to their deaths.
Yesterday, we learned state police ended their hypnosis program.
2/ The Department of Public Safety would not say its officers ended their hypnosis program due to our investigation, which showed hypnotizing witness can create false memories and lead to wrongful convictions.
No, they said they’d simply moved on to better investigative tools.
3/ But state police used hypnosis on investigations at least 8x last year. 3 involved murders, including 1 cold case.
Astonishingly, these officers said they gleaned new evidence at 7 of the 8 hypnosis sessions. Will they use this evidence to build their cases? They didn’t say.
@Dave_Boucher1@TxDPS H/t to @Grits4Breakfast for catching this news, revealed in a #txlege hearing — and for being one of the only people in Texas paying attention to police hypnosis before our series last year.