“What I know is he was attacked yesterday [and] airlifted to the hospital in critical condition,” Paul Flores' lawyer, Harold Mesick, told Oxygen.com. Flores was listed in "fair" condition Thursday.
Stan and Denise Smart, the parents of 19-year-old Kristin Smart, who was murdered in 1996, spoke at a press conference after Paul Flores was convicted of her murder but Ruben Flores was acquitted of accessory charges.
A jury convicted Paul Flores of the 1996 murder of college student Kristin Smart, though his father, Ruben Flores, was acquitted of being an accessory after the fact.
Monterey County Superior Court Judge Jennifer O’Keefe opted to dismiss the juror — who had been serving on the jury to determine Ruben Flores’ fate — out of an “abundance of caution.”
Two separate juries are tasked with determining the fate of Paul Flores and his father Ruben, who is accused of helping his son dispose of Kristin Smart's body in 1996.
Paul Flores has been accused of murdering college classmate Kristin Smart during an attempted rape in his California Polytechnic State University dorm room in May 1996, though her body has never been found.
Defense attorneys representing Paul Flores and his father Ruben Flores tried to get the case dismissed by arguing that there's no evidence Kristin Smart had been killed, but their motion was denied.
Jennifer Hudson testified last week that, at a backyard skate ramp in 1996, Paul Flores admitted to killing and burying Kristin Smart, whom he allegedly called a “d--k tease.”
As the Kristin Smart trial continues, numerous witnesses have testified about Paul Flores' interactions with the slain college student before her 1996 disappearance.
