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A San Luis Obispo County judge Wednesday refused to allow prosecutors to add two rape charges from Los Angeles to the murder case against Paul Flores in the 1996 disappearance of Kristin Smart.
The move by Judge Craig B. Van Rooyen comes despite a prosecutor telling the court, “Paul Flores has raped so many women, it’s hard to keep track,” as he argued for the judge to allow the San Luis Obispo County district attorney to add rape charges from 2011 and 2017 involving two women in Los Angeles.
The prosecutor argued there was a nexus to the murder charge against Flores. They have said he killed Smart, a 19-year-old fellow student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, during the commission of a rape or attempted rape in his dormitory the night she vanished 25 years ago.