The New Hampshire Supreme Court will decide on Tuesday whether to grant Pamela Smart a chance at a hearing that could put her on a path to freedom.
Smart was convicted in 1991 at age 22 of persuading her teenage lover, Billy Flynn, to kill her husband. She met Flynn, then a student, through her work in a New Hampshire school district. Soon after their affair began, Flynn fatally shot her husband, Gregg Smart, in the head.
In this March 4, 1991 file photo, Pamela Smart leaves her former home on Misty Morning Drive in Derry, N.H., where her husband was killed in 1990, while the Rockingham County jury tours the murder site.Smart maintains that she did not ask Flynn to murder her husband -- a factor the New Hampshire attorney general's office and her prosecutor from trial have said disqualify her from mercy. Smart says she does feel responsible for Gregg Smart's death but did not orchestrate his murder.
"It feels like the last straw, the last stand," she said. "If this doesn't work out, what is there after this?"In 1993, Smart was transferred from a New Hampshire prison to Bedford Hills where she has been ever since. Pam Smart and Bella Gonzalez, who she taught English and became best friends with embrace at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility.The two became close over their nearly 20 years in prison together. They played softball -- Smart in center field and Gonzalez at first base -- and they cried when Gonzalez's mom died. They also wept when Smart lost her appeals.
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