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It has now been 1,370 Sundays since Stan and Denise Smart didn't receive a phone call

from their daughter. They have been searching for her through 1,370 Sundays. But now you know

where she was all along. Poverl told Paul Flores his 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.

Poverl's closing argument started at 10am 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 to sign 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. F felony murder and then direct murder as an

alternative.

Poverl's first objective was overcoming the defense's trump card. Without a body, there

was no proof that Kristen's 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 the death of Kristen

and smart?

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