BEDFORD HILLS, N.Y. — 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.
Smart's Feb. 14 hearing will be the first time that she has had a chance to challenge the state's repeated denials to make a case for her release. "In some respects the pieces are finally coming together," Smart, now 55, told ABC News on a phone call from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York two weeks before the hearing.
She also worked as a teacher's aide and, for those who needed extra help on her cell block, she taped a tutoring schedule to the unit's bulletin board."She gave me a new word for my vocabulary every day," said Gonzalez, who at first spoke very little English. While incarcerated at Rikers Island, Kelly Harnett had already heard that Smart was an effective jailhouse lawyer. But when she arrived at Bedford Hills in 2015 she found it was impossible to get a meeting with her.Later that year, Flynn and another accomplice Pete Randall, who held the knife to Gregg Smart's throat, were released from prison.
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