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Kristin Smart Hearing Judge Denies Unusual Requests By Defense

The hearing in the disappearance and murder of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart has taken several strange turns thanks to the defense team’s controversial tactics.

Smart hasn’t been seen since disappearing on the walk from a party to her dorm on Memorial Day weekend 1996. The lone suspect for more than two decades was Paul Flores, a fellow Cal Poly student who walked back with her that night. Flores and his father, Ruben Flores, were arrested April 13, marking the first time anyone has been arrested in connection with Smart’s disappearance.

Read more at SF Gate: www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Kristin-Smart-murder-case

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