A separate jury for Ruben Flores started deliberating on Oct. The jury hearing Paul Flores’s case began deliberations after closing arguments on Oct. “For the next 25 years, I did whatever I could and looked for answers wherever I could,” Denise Smart told the court, according to CBS 13, a local television station. On July 21, Kristin Smart’s parents and her brother, Matt, testified about how they had searched for her after her disappearance.
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The trial got underway with opening statements on July 18 in Monterey County Superior Court in Salinas.
Judge van Rooyen announced in April that the trial would be moved to Monterey County, about 140 miles north of San Luis Obispo, after the defense team requested the change of venue because of extensive publicity around the case. Smart’s family said they had faith in the justice system, “comforted in the knowledge that Kristin has been held in the hearts of so many and that she has not been forgotten.” van Rooyen denied the district attorney’s motion to add two rape charges against Paul Flores, The Tribune of San Luis Obispo reported. The two men made their first courtroom appearance on July 14 in San Luis Obispo Superior Court, where Judge Craig B. On April 19, father and son each pleaded not guilty, according to The Associated Press. Smart “ while in the commission of, or attempted, rape.” Ruben Flores helped to hide her remains, he said. The day after the arrests, Dan Dow, the San Luis Obispo County district attorney, said that Paul Flores had “caused the death” of Ms. Ruben Flores, was arrested at his home on the same day and was charged with being an accessory after the fact. Paul Flores was taken into custody at his home in the San Pedro section of Los Angeles on April 13, 2021, and was charged with murder. In March 2021, investigators used cadaver dogs and ground-penetrating radar to search Ruben Flores’s property in Arroyo Grande, Calif. In February 2020, the authorities executed search warrants at four locations in California and Washington State and recovered what the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office described as “items of interest.” One location was the Los Angeles home of Paul Flores, KCAL-TV reported. The authorities began to describe Paul Flores as a “prime suspect” in the case.
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