Pamela Smart, who was sentenced to life after her teenage lover killed her husband, claims in a new lawsuit that she was wrongly put in solitary confinement for 90 days.
Smart was a media coordinator at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton when she seduced a 16-year-old boy in 1990. He claimed she threatened to break up with him if he didn’t kill her husband; she has denied planning the murder.
In a lawsuit filed this week, Smart says she was wrongly punished after a plastic utensil used to slice cheesecake was found in her cell in Bedford Hills, N.Y. Her spokeswoman told WMUR that she had had the item for 18 years and no one ever objected.
Smart’s trial inspired the novel To Die For and a movie starring Nicole Kidman.