Pam Smart: Another Chance at Freedom?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

3.9 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Appeals exhausted, Pamela Smart files a petition to compel the governor and Executive Council to reconsider giving her a commutation hearing. This too, fails. The state Supreme Court unanimously dismissed the petition for lack of jurisdiction.

Smart was convicted of conspiracy to murder in the June 1, 1990, shooting death of her 24-year-old husband in their Derry condominium.

The then teen trigger-man and accomplices who killed Pamela Smart's husband have been released from jail, but she, the mastermind, will remain locked up.

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

Kathleen Murphy - Family Attorney (North Carolina), www.ncdomesticlaw.com, Twitter: @RalDivorceLaw,
Caryn Stark - NYC Psychologist, www.carynstark.com, Twitter: @carynpsych, Facebook: "Caryn Stark"
Dr. Tim Gallagher - Medical Examiner State of Florida www.pathcaremed.com, Lecturer: University of Florida Medical School Forensic Medicine. Founder/Host: International Forensic Medicine Death Investigation Conference
Chris Byers - Former Police Chief Johns Creek Georgia, 25 years as Police Officer, Private Investigator and Polygraph Examiner, www.chrisbyersinvestigationsandpolygraph.com
Jax Miller - News writer for Oxygen.com, True Crime Author, Author: "Hell in The Heartland: Murder, Meth, and The Case of Two Missing Girls", Facebook: "RealJaxMiller", Twitter/Instagram: @RealJaxMiller,
Dr. Daniel Bober, Forensic Psychiatrist
Dave Mack - Crime Online Investigative Reporter

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0:00.0	Crime stories with Nancy Grace
0:07.0	Wow! Murder, sex, love, illicit relationships.
0:22.0	This story has it all, but sadly, it's not a story.
0:27.0	It's real, the case of Pamela Smart.
0:32.0	How can we ever forget Pamela Smart, Pam Smart,
0:37.0	was a 22-year-old high school media coordinator when she started as they call it a fair,
0:43.0	like call it statutory rape, with a teen boy just 15 at the time,
0:48.0	who later shot and killed Smart's husband Gregory Smart.
0:53.0	In the last days, Pamela Smart goes to court demanding that her sentence be reduced.
1:03.0	Needless to say, let me give you the spoiler alert on that.
1:08.0	The court could see straight through Pamela Smart's claim.
1:13.0	And this time, unlike so many other times, she wasn't wearing a C-through lingerie.
1:19.0	This woman needs to be behind bars, and that's where she must stay.
1:24.0	I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.
1:27.0	Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and Series XM111.
1:32.0	Yes, the court heard Pam Smart's lawyers drone on and on.
1:38.0	Having exhausted her judicial appeal options, Smart returned for a third time to an elected state council seeking a sentence reduction.
1:48.0	The five member executive council rejected her latest request in less than three minutes prompting another appeal to the state Supreme Court.
2:01.0	The justices have just dismissed Pamela Smart's petition claiming it would violate separation of powers, the separation of powers of courts, between the courts and the government.
2:15.0	That would be the executive branch and the judicial branch, as we all know, there are three branches of government.
2:23.0	One is executive. That would be like government officials such as the president or this council.
2:30.0	The second would be the judicial branch, which of course includes judges.
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