Jan. 8, 2026
"UVALDE TRIAL ROCKED BY WITNESS BOMBSHELL, PAMELA SMART SEEKS FREEDOM & FRYING PAN KILLER'S FATE AT OHIO SUPREME COURT"
Reid Carter covers the dramatic first day of testimony in the Uvalde school shooting trial - former officer Adrian Gonzales faces 29 counts of child endangerment as families sob hearing 911 calls and teacher's surprise testimony threatens to derail the prosecution. Pamela Smart, 57, files habeas petition seeking to overturn 1990 conviction for having her 15-year-old student lover kill her husband - lawyers claim prosecutors gave jury fake transcripts. Ohio Supreme Court weighs whether to reinstate Sydney Powell's murder conviction after appeals court granted new trial in frying pan matricide case. Three trials. Three chances for justice.
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Caalarogu Shark Media. Good morning, I'm reed Carter. Thursday, January eighth,
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twenty twenty six, Corpus Christi, Texas. First day of testimony
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in the Uvaldi School shooting trial and already chaos. Former
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Uvaldi School officer Adrian Gonzalez faces twenty nine counts of
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child endangerment for his response to the rob Elementary massacre
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May twenty fourth, twenty twenty two. Nineteen children and two
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teachers murdered nearly four hundred Officers waiting seventy seven minutes
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before confronting the shooter, Gonzalez was one of the first
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on scene. Prosecutors say a teacher pointed directly at the
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gunman and told him where to go. He didn't move.
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Then the trial hit a snag. A teacher's testimony differed
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from what she told investigators in twenty twenty two. Defense
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cried foul, judge halted proceedings, no testimony yesterday. Families waiting
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three and a half years for accountability watched the case
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nearly derail on day one. Remember Pamela Smart, the twenty
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two year old high school media coordinator who seduced her
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fifteen year old student and convinced him to murder her
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husband in nineteen ninety. She's back filed a habeas corpus
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petition Monday seeking to overturn her conviction. Claims prosecutors gave
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jurors fake transcripts with words that weren't actually audible on
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the recordings. She's fifty seven, now serving life without parole.
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Finally admitted responsibility last year after three decades of denial,
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and Ohio's highest court heard arguments yesterday in the Sydney
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Powell case. Remember her, the college student who killed her
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mother with a cast iron frying pan and stake knife
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in twenty twenty, argued insanity, jury rejected it. Convicted of murder,
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but an appeals court granted her a new trial. Now
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the state wants that overturned. Says the decision could change
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how every trial in Ohio Io works. I'm read Carter today.
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A cop who didn't act, a teacher who seduced her student,
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a daughter who killed her mother. Three cases, three chances
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for justice. This is celebrity trials. Let's start in Corpus
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Christi Nuaysa's County Courthouse. Judge Sid Harley, Presiding State of
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Texas versus Adrian Gonzalez. Tuesday morning, courtroom packed with victims, families,
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media from around the world. Tissue boxes distributed before testimony
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even began. Everyone knew this would be devastating. Special Prosecutor
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Bill Turner rose for opening statements, voice trembling, eyes wet.
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Even the prosecutor couldn't hold it together. May twenty fourth,
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twenty twenty two, started as a day of celebration. Turner
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told jurors fourth graders at rob Elementary were supposed to
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receive end of year certificates, awards, assemblies, summer vacation just
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days away. Then a car crashed near the school. A
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man with a rifle walked toward the building. Gilbert Lemonez
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was the first witness. Part time pastor at Hillcrest Funeral
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Home next to the school, testified he saw the crash
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tried to help the driver, but as he approached, the
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driver started shooting at him, then walked toward the school
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very nonchalantly started firing at children on the playground. Limone's
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ran back to the funeral home called nine to one one.
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The recording played in court. Frantic, terrified families sobbed, jurors
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wiped their eyes. Turner laid out the prosecution's case. Adrian
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Gonzalez was the first officer to arrive. Before the shooter
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even entered the building. A coach, Melody Floris, ran up
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to him pointed directly at the gunman over there. He's
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wearing black. He's in the teacher parking lot. Turner emphasized
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those words as shots are ringing out. This is not confusion.
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Another witness, a teacher, came face to face with the
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gunman before he entered the building. He fired at her.
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She ran, fell, got up. Gonzalez was there. She told
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him he's over there, urged him to go get the shooter.
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Gonzalez got on the radio, said shots were fired, the
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shooter was wearing black in the parking lot. He knew
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where the gunman was, but according to Turner, Adrian Gonzalez
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remains at the south side of the school. Turner walked
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jurors through what happened next. The shooter fired toward rooms
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one O two and one oh four. Adrian Gonzalez remains.
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Other officers started arriving. The shooter reached rooms one hundred
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eleven and one hundred twelve, fired twenty plus shots in
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the hallway. Adrian Gonzalez remains inside those classrooms. Children and
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teachers hid in the dark, waiting for police. Some grabbed
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safety scissors to confront a gunman armed with a rifle.
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Fourth graders with scissors against an ar fifteen. We're not
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asking Adrian Gonzalez to commit suicide. Turner told the jury
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he was trained to go to the corner of a
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building and distract, delay, and impede the gunman while help
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is arriving. He only went inside the school, Turner said
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after the damage had been done. Defense attorney Nico Lawhood
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delivered a longer opening, walked jurors through a second by
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second timeline using aerial images. Argued Gonzales acted based on
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the information available, radioed for help, evacuated children as other
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officers arrived. There's an animal involved in this situation, a monster,
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and he's no longer here. Lahoud said that monster can't
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sit in that chair. Defense attorney Jason Goss added, this
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isn't a man waiting around, This isn't a man failing
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to act. Our client did not cause any of these injuries.
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Salvador Ramos caused these injuries. Then came the testimony that
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nearly derailed everything. Stephanie Hale, former rob elementary teacher, testified
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she brought her class inside from the playground when she
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heard gunfire. Teachers tried to secure their classroom door with
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an extension cord. She and other teachers came up with
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a plan for students to defend themselves with scissors. Do
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what we had to do to defend she testified. But
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then Hale said something the defense claims she never said before.
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She testified she saw the gunmen on the south side
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of campus, the same area where Gonzalez was located. Defense
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attorneys immediately objected, argued Hale's testimony differed from statements she
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gave to a Texas ranger during a twenty twenty two
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legislative investigation. This was new information never disclosed could fundamentally
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change the case. Judge Harley excused the jury questioned the prosecutor.
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In an unusual move. Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell
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was sworn in and testified, said she'd been caught off
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guard by Hale's testimony too. Hale had described seeing a
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man in black with a long rifle, but hadn't mentioned
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specifically where the suspect was. The judge halted proceedings for
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the day. No testimony Wednesday while lawyers argued legal matters.
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Testimony resumes today. Families were devastated. Manuel Rizo, uncle of
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Jackie Kazaris, one of the nineteen children killed, said we're
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already anxious and now we're upset. All we want is
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justice for Jackie. It's been three and a half years
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and here we are. Velma Lisa Duran, sister of teacher
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Irma Garcia, said Gonzales could have stopped him, but he
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didn't want to be the target. Said authorities stood by
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while her sister died protecting children. When asked if he'd
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seek a mistrial defense, attorney Lehood demurred, it's a remedy
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allowed by law. We're not saying we're going to take
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that remedy or not yet. Criminologist Alex del Carman, whose
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trained police departments across Texas, said he estimates the chance
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of conviction at roughly fifty percent. This is unprecedented territory.
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Only the second time in US history prosecutors have sought
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to hold a member of law enforcement criminally accountable for
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their response to a mass shooting. The first was Scott Peterson,
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the Parkland deputy who stayed outside during that school shooting.
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He was acquitted in twenty twenty three. Gonzales faces twenty
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nine counts of abandoning or endangering a child, one for
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each child who was inside those classrooms. Maximum sentence two
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years per count if convicted on all counts, and sentences
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run consecutively up to fifty eight years, but that's unlikely.
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Former Uvaldi School's police chief, Pete Aradondo was also indicted
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ten counts. He was the on site commander. Trial hasn't
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been scheduled yet. The trial was moved to Corpus Christi
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after defense argued Gonzales couldn't get a fair trial in Uvalde.
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Some families wanted more officers charged. Nearly four hundred responded
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that day, only two face criminal charges. Make it make sense.
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A gunman walked onto campus, Teachers pointed directly at him,
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told the officer where he was. Children called nine to
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one one from inside classrooms. Parents begged officers to go in,
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and seventy seven minutes passed before anyone confronted the shooter.
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Your tax dollars at work. We'll be right back with
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Pamela Smart. She seduced her fifteen year old student, convinced
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him to murder. Her husband spent thirty four years in prison,
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claiming she's innocent. Now she wants out. Welcome back to
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celebrity trials. I'm redcar May First, nineteen ninety Dairy, New Hampshire,
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small town south of Manchester, population thirty five thousand, the
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kind of place where everyone knows everyone. Gregory Smart, twenty
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four years old insurance salesman, newlywed, came home to his
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condominium after work. Someone was waiting. Two teenagers burst through
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the door. One held a knife to his throat, the
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other put a gun to his head. Bang, one shot.
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Gregory Smart fell dead. Iness Foyer, forced to his knees,
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executed his wife. Pamela discovered the body, called police, played
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the grieving widow. America believed her until the truth came out.
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Pamela Smart twenty two years old, high school media coordinator
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at Winnicunnet High School in nearby Hampton. Blonde, attractive, ambitious,
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she'd started an affair with one of her students, William Flynn,
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fifteen years old sophomore. The affair began after Pamela recruited
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Flynn to help with a school video project. Groomed him,
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slept with him, made him fall in love with her,
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then told him she needed her husband dead. According to
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Flynn's trial testimony, Pamela said she feared she'd lose everything
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if she divorced. Gregory threatened to break up with Flynn
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if he didn't kill her husband, so Flynn recruited his
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friend Patrick Randall, seventeen. They recruited two more teens to
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help made a plan May. First, Pamela made sure she
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was out of the house attending a school board meeting.
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Alibi established. Flynn and Randall broke in waited when Gregory
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came home. Randal held a knife to his throat. Flynn
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fired a hollow point bullet into his head. They ransacked
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the condo to make it look like a burglary. Pamela
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came home discovered the body played the victim, but Cecilia Pierce,
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a friend of Flynn's, started cooperating with police, wore a
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wire recorded conversations with Pamela. Those recordings became the prosecution's
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key evidence. Flynn, Randall, and the other her teenagers cooperated
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testified against Pamela. All pleaded guilty and received reduced sentences.
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Flynn got twenty eight years to life, released on parole.
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In twenty fifteen, Randall got the same, also released. Pamela
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went to trial March nineteen ninety one, one of the
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first trials in American history broadcast gaveled. A gavel on
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court TV media circus doesn't begin to describe it. The
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case had everything sex, murder, a seductive older woman, a
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teenage killer, secret recordings. Pamela denied knowledge of the plot,
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said she was shocked shocked that her teenage lover and
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his friends murdered her husband. The jury didn't buy it.
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Convicted of being an accomplice to first degree murder, conspiracy
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to commit murder, and witness tampering. Sentenced to life without parole.
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The teenagers who actually pulled the trigger and held the
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knife got less time than the woman who planned it.
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For thirty four years, Pamela maintained her innocence a pear
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heels denied. Sentence reduction requests denied. Last summer, New Hampshire
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Governor Kelly Ayotte rejected her latest request for a hearing.
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Then something changed. June twenty twenty four, Pamela released a
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video finally taking full responsibility for Gregory's death. Said she'd
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spent years deflecting blame, almost as if it was a
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coping mechanism. Now, Monday of this week, her lawyers filed
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a habeas corpus petition seeking to overturn her conviction entirely
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filed in both New York, where she's incarcerated at Bedford
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Hill's correctional facility, and New Hampshire, where the murder happened.
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The arguments are fascinating. First, prosecutors allegedly gave jurors inaccurate
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transcripts of the secretly recorded conversations. Words that weren't actually
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audible on the recordings were written in the transcripts. According
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to Pamela's lawyers, the word killed in the sentence you
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had your husband killed, the word busted in I'm going
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to be busted, the word murder in this would have
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been the perfect murder. Her attorney, Matthew Zehnheldt, said, modern
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science confirms what common sense has always told us. When
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people are handed a script, they inevitably hear the words
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they are shown. Jurors were not evaluating the recordings independently,
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they were being directed toward a conclusion. Second, the media
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coverage was so intense it tainted the verdict, wall to
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wall coverage. Joyce Maynard wrote a book about it. Hollywood
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made a movie starring Nicole Kidman. The trial became entertainment
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before the jury even deliberated. Third, the jury instructions were
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allegedly faulty. Jurors were told they must find that Smart
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acted with premeditation, not that they must consider only the
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evidence presented at trial. Fourth, New Hampshire didn't mandate life
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without parole for being an accomplice to first degree murder.
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The sentence was discretionary, not required. Attorney Jason Ought said
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missus Smart's trial unfolded in an environment that no court
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had previously confronted, wall to wall media coverage that blurred
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the line between allegation and evidence. This petition challenges whether
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a fair adversarial process took place. New Hampshire's Attorney General's
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Office responded the state maintains miss Smart received a fair
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trial and that her convictions were lawfully obtained and upheld
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on appeal. Here's the reality. Pamela Smart is fifty seven
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years old. She served thirty four years. William Flynn, the
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teenager who actually pulled the trigger, served twenty five years,
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and has been free since twenty fifteen. Patrick Randall, who
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held the knife to Gregory's throat, same story free. The
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person who planned the murder is still in prison, the
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people who executed it are free. Is that justice? Maybe
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Pamela groomed a fifteen year old, used sex to manipulate
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it child into committing murder, created the entire conspiracy. Without her,
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Gregory Smart would be alive, But William Flynn pulled the trigger,
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made the choice, followed through. He's been free for a decade.
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The habeas petition is a long shot. Courts rarely overturned
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convictions this old. The legal arguments are creative but speculative,
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and Pamela spent three decades lying before finally admitting responsibility.
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Hard to trust someone who lied for that long. Gregory
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Smart was twenty four years old, insurance salesman, newlywed, married
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