The man convicted of killing Kristin Smart, who vanished from a California college campus more than 25 years ago, was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in prison.
Monterey County Superior Court Judge Jennifer O'Keefe rejected defence motions to toss out Paul Flores' first-degree murder conviction, acquit him and order a new trial.She said Flores had been "a cancer to society" and in addition to his prison term must register as a sex offender for life.
At the sentencing, prosecutor Chris Peuvrelle asked the judge for the maximum sentence, called Flores a "true psychopath" and said he should never be released from prison. San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow said in a statement after the hearing that justice had been finally served. At Paul Flores' trial, defence attorney Robert Sanger tried to pin the killing on someone else. Sanger noted that Scott Peterson, who was later convicted at a sensational trial of murdering his pregnant wife and the fetus she was carrying, was also a student at the campus about 200 miles up the coast from Los Angeles.
"There is a reason that a case against Paul Flores was not brought for 25 years," the motion said. "There was no evidence of a murder or that Paul Flores committed it."
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