Texas Gov. Greg Abbott recently vetoed a bill that would have limited court testimony from witnesses who had previously been hypnotized by police during an investigation. Dallas Morning News investigative reporter, Lauren McGaughy, told Texas Standard that Abbott isn’t against cracking down on police hypnosis, but vetoed Senate Bill 281 because he said last-minute changes by Democratic and Republican lawmakers made it “overly broad,” she said. The concern about police hypnosis is that it can change or distort people’s memories about a crime – days, weeks or even months after the hypnosis session, and lead to wrongful convictions. McGaughy says more people in the criminal justice system are questioning the validity of the practice, but it’s still used, and findings will continue to be used in Texas courts without the new law in place.