Politics & Government

'Harder To Be Hopeful': Pamela Smart Seeks New Trial As New Hampshire Judge Weighs Her Latest Petition

The shooter was freed in 2015 after serving a 25-year sentence.

(CBS Boston)

Updated on: July 21, 2026

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

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Smart, 58, 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.

The shooter was freed in 2015 after serving a 25-year sentence. Though Smart denied knowledge of the plot, she was convicted of being an accomplice to first-degree murder and other crimes and was sentenced to life without parole.

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