Politics & Government
Pamela Smart Seeks A New Trial As A New Hampshire Judge Weighs Her Latest Petition
Smart's petition seeks to overturn her conviction on the grounds that her lawyers claim there were several constitutional violations.

July 20, 2026 / 9:18 AM EDT
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.
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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.
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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Pamela Smart in 1991 (WBZ-TV)
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