2023-05-25
1 小时 47 分钟Chris recaps the closing arguments with help from the prosecution team
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It has now been 1370 Sundays since Stan and Denise Smart didn't receive a phone call from their daughter.
They have been searching for her through 1370 Sundays.
But now you know where she was all along, Pavril told Paul Flores jury, pointing his finger at Ruben and Susan Flores, who were seated in the front row of the courtroom audience.
She was under their deck.
Pavral's closing argument started at 10:00 a.m.
on October 3, 2022.
It was a summary of evidence he'd been working on for almost two years.
So I started writing my closing as soon as I got assigned the case.
Because you have to know what your destination is in order to chart a path to get there.
When you have a body, the body usually tells you what happened to that person.
It gives you the manner of death, but without a body, you're really left with what is the actual truth about what happened.
And felony murder gives you that ability to prove the case by proving a felony and with the logical inference.
So I started thinking about it from that point forward.
So my closing argument was based with that goal in mind, felony murder and then direct murder as an alternative.
Pavral's first objective was overcoming the defense's trump card.
Without a body, there was no proof that Kristen smart was even dead, let alone that Paul Flores was responsible.
It was a position that had worked for the Flores family this whole time and still might.
Have you ever asked your son about whether or not he was involved in.