Webprosecutors alleged flores, now 45, raped or attempted to rape smart and killed her in his dorm room while he and the victim were students at cal poly san luis.
Webpaul flores, who was found guilty last year of murdering kristin smart in 1996 when they were both university students, was sentenced on friday to 25 years to.
Webin january 2020, the san luis obispo county district attorney’s office offered paul flores’ sister, ermelinda thomas, “a degree of immunity from prosecution”.
Websan luis obispo county sheriff’s detectives arrested flores, 44, at his san pedro home in april 2021, decades after identifying him as a person of interest in.
Webprosecutors maintained that flores, now 46, killed smart during an attempted rape on may 25, 1996, in his dorm room at the university, where both were.
Webflores was arrested in connection to smart’s disappearance in 2021 after san luis obispo county resident chris lambert released the “your own backyard”.