An appeals court has upheld the first-degree murder conviction for Kristin Smart's killer following an appeal hearing in his ...

A state appeals court panel Friday upheld a San Pedro man’s conviction for murdering his former Cal Poly San Luis Obispo ...

Paul Flores’ conviction and 25-year-to-life sentence for the 1996 murder of Cal Poly freshman Kristin Smart will stand, the ...

Paul Flores' appeal of his conviction for the murder of Kristin Smart was denied in an unpublished opinion from the Second ...

A California appeals court denied Paul Flores’ appeal to overturn his murder conviction in the death of Kristin Smart, saying ...

Dateline NBC episode titled "Justice for Kristin Smart" revisited the disturbing disappearance and murder of a 19-year-old California Polytechnic State University student, Kristin Smart, back in 1996.

Paul Flores is back in court seeking to overturn his 2022 conviction for the 1996 murder of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart.

Oral arguments as to whether Kristin Smart’s convicted killer Paul Flores should have the jury’s verdict overturned or reduced took place Thursday — almost three years to the date of Flores’ ...

Solomon Wollack appeared via Zoom before a three-judge panel of California’s Second District Court of Appeal and argued that ...

Kristin Smart, a Cal Poly student who vanished in 1996, saw her case reach a turning point with the 2022 conviction of Paul Flores for her murder. In October 2025, Flores is back in court seeking to ...

Nearly three years after being convicted of murdering Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo freshman Kristin Smart in 1996, Paul Flores is back in court—this time seeking to overturn the verdict that sentenced ...