Pamela Smart—convicted in 1990 for masterminding the murder of her husband with her 15-year-old student—is petitioning a New Hampshire judge for a new trial. Her legal team argues that media frenzy, faulty jury instructions, and transcript errors tainted the original verdict, while state prosecutors insist the issues were already settled decades ago.

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