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.
Pamela Smart answers questions from the defense in her murder conspiracy trial March 18, 1991, in Rockingham County Superior Court in Exeter, N.H. A lawyer for 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, and he's asked New Hampshire's highest court to order the panel to reconsider it.
CONCORD, N.H. — A lawyer for Pamela Smart, who is serving a life-without-parole sentence for plotting with her teenage lover to kill her husband in 1990, argued Tuesday that a state council “brushed aside” her request for a chance at freedom, and asked New Hampshire’s highest court to order the panel to reconsider it.
Smart’s longtime attorney, Mark Sisti, argued the five-member council did not spend any time poring over Smart’s voluminous petition — which included many letters of support from inmates, supervisors and others — or even discuss it before rejecting her sentence reduction request in less than three minutes in March.
“I’m asking the only place I can go — the only place Pam can go — to say ‘Just Do Your Job,’” Sisti said.To which Sisti replied: “A meaningful, minimal due process hearing that we even get at the Department of Motor Vehicles.”Last year was the third time that Smart, who has served over 30 years in prison, had asked the Executive Council for a hearing. Now 55, she has exhausted all of her judicial appeal options and has to go through the council for a sentence change.
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