Paul Flores, 45, was found guilty last year of the first-degree murder of fellow California Polytechnic State University student Smart, who was 19 when she disappeared in 1996.
Smart’s family delivered impact statements on Friday ahead of the sentencing. According to the San Luis Obispo Tribune newspaper, her father, Stan Smart, said: “This is a parent’s worst nightmare — the disappearance and death of their child … we shared her hopes, her dreams, her aspirations as she became a beautiful young adult, and now she will never be able to have a full life.”
Paul Flores’s attorney, Robert Sanger, did not immediately respond to an overnight request for comment following the sentencing. He previously told The Washington Post that his policy is not to comment on his cases.that Smart was last seen walking toward her dormitory with Flores after a party in May 1996. He later
gave differing accounts of how he had sustained a black eye to investigators looking into the disappearance,
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