The man convicted of killing Stockton native Kristin Smart is appealing his sentence. His legal team is arguing that he did not have a fair trial due to errors during the proceedings.

Paul Flores was convicted of murdering his Cal Poly classmate, Smart, in 1996. Smart disappeared during her freshman year on campus and witnesses who testified during Flores' 2022 murder trial in Monterey County said the last time they saw Smart alive was with Flores.

He has long held that he walked Smart back to her campus dorm on the night she disappeared and had no knowledge of what happened to her.

Flores was arrested in 2021 for Smart's murder while in the commission of or attempt to commit rape. Twelve jurors found him guilty, and he was sentenced in 2023 to 25 years to life in prison .

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