MARCH 29, 2023:
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s highest court is expected to release an opinion on Pamela Smart’s request for a sentence reduction hearing. The 55-year-old Smart has served over 30 years of a life-without-parole sentence for plotting with her teenage lover to kill her husband in 1990. She’s exhausted all of her judicial appeals. Her lawyer says a state council that rejected her latest request last year didn’t spend any time reviewing it. The attorney general’s office says there’s no requirement for the council to create rules regarding the process. Smart denied knowledge of the plot to kill her husband. Four teens charged in the case served shorter sentences and have been released.
FEBRUARY 14, 2023:
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A lawyer for Pamela Smart, who’s serving a life-without-parole sentence for plotting with her teenage lover to kill her husband in 1990, says a state council “brushed aside” her request for a chance at freedom. He asked New Hampshire’s highest court on Tuesday (Feb. 14, 2023) to order the panel to reconsider it. The justices questioned whether the council didn’t spend sufficient time looking at Smart’s voluminous petition last year before rejecting her request in a brief proceeding. Mark Sisti said there’s nothing to indicate the council took a serious look. The 55-year-old Smart has been in prison more than 30 years. She denied knowledge of the plot to kill her husband.
MARCH 2022:
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Pamela Smart has been denied a sentence reduction hearing more than 30 years after her sensational trial that inspired books and the Nicole Kidman movie “To Die For.” Smart was a high school employee when she was accused and eventually convicted of recruiting her teenage lover to kill her husband in 1990. Smart’s request for a hearing was denied Wednesday (March 23, 2022) in a 5-0 vote by a New Hampshire state council. It’s the third time the 54-year-old Smart has asked a council for a hearing.
DECEMBER 2021:
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former high school employee serving a life-without-parole sentence for recruiting her teenage lover to kill her husband in 1990 is once again asking New Hampshire officials for a chance at freedom, saying she has accepted responsibility for her role in her husband’s death. WMUR-TV reports in a letter, Pamela Smart apologizes to her husband’s family, her own family, and all directly or indirectly impacted by her actions. The 54-year-old Smart was 22 when she was accused of plotting with student William Flynn to murder her husband, Gregory Smart. Flynn and three other youths have since been released from prison. The case inspired the 1995 Nicole Kidman movie, “To Die For.”
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