Pamela Smart, whose conviction for manipulating her teenage lover into killing her husband became one of America's most notorious murder cases, has asked a New Hampshire judge to let her latest bid for a new trial move forward.Smart was 22 and working as a high school media coordinator in 1990 when prosecutors said she became involved in a sexual relationship with 15-year-old William Flynn and convinced him to kill her husband, Gregory Smart.She was convicted the following year of being an accomplice to first-degree murder and has been serving life without parole ever since.PAMELA SMART, CONVICTED OF PLOTTING WITH TEEN LOVER TO KILL HUSBAND, HAS NEW HAMPSHIRE COURT PETITION DENIEDMerrimack County Superior Court Judge James Kennedy heard arguments Monday on Smart's petition for habeas corpus relief before taking the matter under advisement.Kennedy said he expects to issue a written ruling within 30 to 60 days.Pamela Smart testifies during her 1991 murder trial in New Hampshire.
Smart is serving life without parole for her role in the killing of her husband, Gregory Smart, and is seeking a new trial through a habeas corpus petition.(Getty Images)Smart, now 58, filed the petition in January seeking to overturn her conviction, arguing prosecutors misled jurors by providing transcripts of secretly recorded conversations that included words her attorneys say cannot actually be heard on the recordings.Among the disputed words are "killed" in the phrase "you had your husband killed," "busted" in the phrase "I'm gonna be busted," and "murder" in the phrase "this would have been the perfect murder."IDAHO MURDERS: NEW BOOK ON KOHBERGER REVEALS PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN EVIDENCE, CLAIMS SHEATH COULD BE INADMISSIBLEEarlier this year, Smart's attorney, Matthew Zernhelt, said the new research shows "modern science confirms what common sense has always told us: when people are handed a script, they inevitably hear the words they are shown." He argued jurors "were not evaluating the recor...