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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Kathy McCormack and Holly Ramer

Pamela Smart, serving life, seeks a new trial as a New Hampshire judge weighs her latest petition

Pam Smart Petition - (AP1991)

Lawyers for Pamela Smart, who’s serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband by her teenage student in 1990, hope that a New Hampshire judge on Monday will allow her latest petition for a new trial to move forward.

Smart's trial was one of the first in the nation to be broadcast live on television from start to finish. She was a 22-year-old high school media coordinator when she began an affair with a 15-year-old boy who later fatally shot her husband, Gregory Smart, in Derry.

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