Where does the Smart case stand?
Flores, 44, was arrested Tuesday at his home, nearly 25 years after Smart left a party near the Cal Poly campus and vanished on the way back to her dormitory.
Dow said prosecutors decided they could prove Flores’ guilt after investigators discovered more evidence and interviewed new witnesses in the last two years. He declined to provide specifics, saying only that text messages taken from Flores’ phone had been “helpful” and that detectives obtained “very important” information in March. Investigators that month searched a home owned by Flores’ father with cadaver dogs and ground-penetrating radar.
“We’ve got physical evidence,” Dow said, “we have witness statements, things that, in our view, in their totality, have brought us to the point where we believe we can go forward and prosecute Mr. Flores for the murder of Kristin Smart.”
Helios Dayspring opens marijuana shop in Morro Bay
April 13, 2021
Helios Dayspring cutting the ribbon at his Morro Bay pot shop.
Natural Healing Center, a company headed by marijuana mogul Helios Dayspring, opened a retail pot shop in Morro Bay on Monday.
The new retail store, located at 495 Morro Bay Boulevard, held a daylong grand opening, which included a ribbon cutting. The new pot store sells marijuana flowers, as well as other cannabis products, including edibles.
The approval comes several weeks after a San Luis Obispo County Superior Court Judge ruled in favor of Dayspring, Morro Bay and its retail cannabis application process in a lawsuit alleging corruption in Morro Bay’s cannabis permitting process.
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SLO County BLM protester appeal headed back to the appellate court
April 8, 2021
By KAREN VELIE
In the latest legal round regarding a group of Black Lives Matter protesters who blocked Highway 101 in San Luis Obispo last summer, the appellate court reversed their earlier decision not to hear an appeal of Judge Matthew Guerrero’s recusal of county prosecutors.
In early January, the attorney general filed two appeals regarding Guerrero’s finding the SLO County District Attorney’s Office had a conflict of interest, one in the felony case against Robert Lastra the protester who allegedly smashed a car window onto a 4-year-old boy and one in the misdemeanor filings against the remaining six defendants. Generally, the 2nd District Court of Appeal hears felony appeals, while a panel of three SLO County Superior Court judges rule on misdemeanor appeals.
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