Van der Sloot victim's family caught in time dilemma

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Updated: 9/09/2011 7:46 am
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Birmingham, Ala (WIAT)  The family of murder victim Stephany Flores has another tough decision to make.  

The Flores family wants  prosecutors to seek a longer sentence against confessed killer Joran van der Sloot.  He's currently looking at a thirty year sentence if convicted of killing the 21 year old student.

They also want an end to the legal process that began when their daughter was found dead in van der Sloot's Lima, Peru hotel room in May 2010.  

The family's lawyer tells The Associated Press that Stephany Flores' family won't object to the proposed sentence because it doesn't want the trial delayed.  Lawyer Edward Alvarez says that if the Flores family were to raise objections Monday the trial could be delayed until next year.

Van der Sloot is to appear Monday before a judge who could set the trial to begin as early as October.

When arrested in the May 2010 slaying of Flores, Van der Sloot was widely known as the chief suspect in the unsolved disappearance five years earlier in Aruba of the Mountain Brook teen Natalee Holloway.

Stephany Flores body was discovered five years to the day of Natalee's disappearance after leaving a bar on Aruba with van der Sloot.  The Dutchman has reportedly confessed to Peruvian investigators that he killed Flores in a fit of rage after she found material about Natalee on his laptop.  Peruvian officials dismiss the "crime of passion" defense and say robbery was van der Sloot's motive.


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MNIO2010 - 9/10/2011 4:59 PM
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Boycoyt is a silly troll. And irrelevant. The Flores family need not worry. JVDS will spend 30 years in prison in Peru after which he'll head to the US to serve his 20 yr sentence for extortion. He'll be over s70 yrs old will they open the gates and let the JVDS the monster walk free again.

ronald - 9/10/2011 1:45 PM
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Personly I think the baster should be hung by the necl until dead

goodgnus - 9/10/2011 11:12 AM
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Not even Oliver Stone would buy boycoyt's conspiracy theory.

Karen - 9/9/2011 5:19 PM
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Boycoyt. You need your head examined. Were you a member of Casey Anthony's jury???

boycoyt - 9/9/2011 2:42 PM
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I would want longer sentence,too if I knew I had set this poor guy up.There is no evidence that this guy killed this girl for the hack of it.I do believe this gay woman hit him first and he lost it,I thing things just got out of control. I think he told the woman who he was and she tried to flee that is when the fighting started.Joran was probably trying to tell her that he didnt kill the other girl and she just refused to listen and hit him to get away.This first degree murder will be hard to prove, I hope like heck this poor guy has a wonderfully smart lawyer. Manslaughter fits this case better,the other side could risk losing this case. I hope so. he needs to be sent back home to his family.This is all just one big set up.

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