Pamela Smart just hit another legal dead end. A New Hampshire judge has turned down her latest bid to unravel the conviction that's kept her in prison for the 1990 killing of her husband, Gregg Smart, reports WMUR. In a habeas corpus petition submitted in January that sought a new trial and sentencing, Smart's lawyers argued that jurors were given flawed transcripts of low-quality audio recordings that could've skewed what they thought they heard. Merrimack County Superior Court James Kennedy, however, pointed out that similar complaints were raised and rejected more than three decades ago during the appeals process, adding that Smart, now 59, still hasn't shown specific inaccuracies that harmed her case.
The court also brushed aside other claims, including that her lawyer effectively admitted her guilt, that media coverage tainted the verdict, and that the mandatory sentence was wrongly imposed—leaving her life-without-parole conviction intact. William Flynn, the teen who was having an affair with Smart and gunned down her husband, and three other teens who helped with the plot offered their cooperation to prosecutors and have all since been released from prison, per the AP. Court TV notes that even though the murder took place in New Hampshire, Smart is serving her sentence in New York, due to an arrangement between the two states. A New York court determined that a similar motion she'd filed there didn't fall under its jurisdiction.
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