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California State Attorney Rob Bonta He pushed himself against Paul Flores, a man convicted of the murder of the California Polytechnic (Cal Poly), the freshman Kristin Smart in 1996, for his request to cancel or reduce his condemnation, calling his request “without merit.”
Flores currently endures a sentence from 25 years to life For the murder of Smart After a three -month trial in October 2022.
In a new 107 -page court submission, Flores’s defense claimed that the High Court Judge Monterey Jennifer O’Keefe had repeatedly abused her discretionary right, including not rejection of the jurors, which Flores claimed showed signs of bias and allowed the ball to be displayed at the end of the trial.
His appeal claimed that, although only one of the alleged mistakes, he was not taken away by his right to a fair trial, but that the accumulation of all mistakes made it.
California man who will be convicted of killing Kristin Smart while attempting to rape in college
Paul Flores was convicted in 2022 for the murder of Kristin Smart, a student at the Faculty of California who disappeared in 1996.
However, Bonta claimed that all Flores claims did not affect his right to a fair trial or guarantee that his conviction would be canceled or changed.
“The cumulative argument of the error has no merit,” Bonta’s office wrote. “Any alleged mistake was missing merit and was harmless.”
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Flores’ first claim was about the juror no. 273, which was not removed from the jury, despite several attempts to define it during the trial, claiming that it showed a few signs of bias during the trial.
Bonta claimed that the judge was right he did not reject the juror.
“Significant evidence supports the finding of the first instance court that the jury No. 273 did not lose the ability to remain neutral,” the report said.
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Flores said that rape testimonies also led to unjust bias.
Three jurors shared with San Luis Obisus Tribune In April 2023 that women’s testimonies were important in their discussions while establishing a pattern and making them believe that Flores tried to rape or rape wisely before her death.
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The Bonta Office opposed and claimed that the testimonies of the victims were properly admitted to court and that “the defendant should not be directly accused of sexual act in order to accept such evidence.”
“Appellate (Flores) was entitled to a fair trial, not perfect,” read the application.
One of the last people believed to be Smart Alive is supposedly inviting Flores to admit where he buried her, almost 30 years since her disappearance.
Kristin Smart disappeared on May 25, 1996, as she attended the California Polytechnic, San Luis Obisus. (Axel Koester/Sygma via Getty Images)
“Paul Flores has to come clean and tell a smart family where Kristina’s body is,” Trevor Boelter, who was smart at night when he disappeared, said Dailymail.com.
Flores, who is now 48 years old, was convicted in October 2022 on the murder of first degree Smart, a 19-year-old Cal Polya freshman, who disappeared In May 1996. After leaving the party outside the campus to San Luis Obisus.
Prosecutors accused Flores of killing Smart while trying to rape inside his dorm and later rejected his body to an unknown place.
Paul Flores stands during the trial for murder in the High Court of the Mondterey County in Salinas, California, on Monday, July 18, 2022. (Daniel Dreifuss/Monterey County Weekly via AP, Pool)
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“Soon, when his complaints are exhausted, he will have to face life behind bars to the end of his natural life – and the best way he can start to understand is, offering a wise closure of the family,” Boelter told the Daily Mail.
Smart The remains were never found, But she was proclaimed legally dead in 2002.
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According to a court schedule, Flores is expected to respond to a short state prosecutor by May 5.
Stepheny Price is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. It covers topics, including missing persons, murders, national cases of crime, illegal immigration and more. Tips and ideas of the story can be sent to Stepheny.price@fox.com
