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A judge rejects Pamela Smart’s latest bid for a new trial in 1990 accomplice to murder case

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A New Hampshire judge dismissed Pamela Smart’s latest petition for a new trial. Smart is serving a life sentence for orchestrating her husband's 1990 murder using a teenage student. The ruling rejects the latest legal challenge from the 59-year-old, who has been imprisoned for over 30 years.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire judge on Thursday dismissed the latest petition for a new trial from Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband by her teenage student more than three decades ago. Smart, 59, was a 22-year-old high school media coordinator when she began...

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