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Pamela Smart’s Latest Legal Bid | Oakland News
Pamela Smart, serving a life sentence for orchestrating her husband’s 1990 murder, is pushing for a new trial, arguing her conviction was tainted by prosecutors’ misleading transcripts and flawed jury instructions. Her legal team claims words like “killed” and “murder” were falsely inserted into recordings, manipulating the jury. They also challenge the mandatory life sentence and the media frenzy that surrounded the case — one of the first fully televised trials. State prosecutors push back, saying most claims were already settled on appeal and that Smart’s lawyers failed to prove…
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