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Convicted of murder, Paul Flores seeks to reduce his sentence

Written on 11 Aug, 2025 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | No comments

By KAREN VELIE Editor’s Note: This the fourth in a four-part series on three civil lawsuits and an appeal related to the investigation, trial and incarceration of Paul Flores. Read part one, “Will Paul Flores return to San Luis Obispo... (Continue reading)

Private investigator files lawsuit against Paul Flores’ parents, failure to pay

Written on 5 Aug, 2025 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 8 comments

By KAREN VELIE Editors Note: This the third in a four-part series on three civil lawsuits and an appeal related to the investigation, trial and incarceration of Paul Flores. Read part one, “Will Paul Flores return to San Luis Obispo... (Continue reading)

Will Paul Flores return to San Luis Obispo County to testify at trial?

Written on 29 Jul, 2025 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 5 comments

By KAREN VELIE Editors Note: This is first in a four-part series on three civil lawsuits and an appeal related to the investigation, trial and incarceration of Paul Flores. Even though Paul Flores was convicted in 2022 of murdering former... (Continue reading)

Prosecutors find convicted murderer Paul Flores’ appeal meritless

Written on 19 Apr, 2025 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 7 comments

By KAREN VELIE Paul Flores, the former Cal Poly San Luis Obispo student who was convicted in the 1996 murder of Kristin Smart, last fall appealed his conviction claiming judicial error. State prosecutors responded on April 14 with a brief... (Continue reading)

Paul Flores seeks to have murder conviction reversed or reduced

Written on 23 Oct, 2024 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 4 comments

By KAREN VELIE Paul Flores, the former Cal Poly San Luis Obispo student who was convicted in the 1996 murder of Kristin Smart, appealed his conviction on Monday claiming judicial error. A jury in 2022 found that Flores murdered Smart... (Continue reading)

Errors at lab used in Kristin Smart case not likely to impact Flores

Written on 30 Jun, 2024 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | No comments

By KAREN VELIE Hundreds of cases could be upended because of an error at the lab that conducted DNA and blood evidence tests in the Kristin Smart case. However, it is unlikely to factor into Paul Fores’ murder conviction. In... (Continue reading)

Kristin Smart’s killer ordered to pay restitution

Written on 18 Jun, 2024 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 7 comments

By KAREN VELIE A judge on Monday ordered Paul Flores, the man convicted of killing Cal Poly coed Kristin Smart in 1996, to pay more than $350,000 in restitution to her family for costs they incurred following her death. In... (Continue reading)

Paul Flores moves prisons following two attacks

Written on 11 Jun, 2024 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 10 comments

By KAREN VELIE Following two brutal attacks, corrections officials transferred convicted Kristin Smart killer Paul Flores from a prison in Colinga to another Central Valley facility, California State Prison in Corcoran. In Oct. 2022, a Monterey County jury found Flores... (Continue reading)

Paul Flores’ second assailant has a history of attacking other inmates

Written on 29 Apr, 2024 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 6 comments

By KAREN VELIE Danny Araujo, a 35-year-old prisoner who has repeatedly attacked other inmates with shanks, allegedly attempted to kill Paul Flores at Pleasant Valley State Prison. Flores is serving a 25 to life sentence for the 1996 murder of... (Continue reading)

Paul Flores attacked in prison, again

Written on 11 Apr, 2024 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 10 comments

By KAREN VELIE Paul Fores was attacked yesterday at Pleasant Valley State Prison and taken to a hospital with non-life threatening wounds, his second serious assault in less than a year. In Aug, 2023, Jason Budrow, a prisoner who killed... (Continue reading)