Pamela Smart gets settlement over prison pictures

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Pamela Smart gets settlement over prison pictures

By CBS 3 Springfield News

Story Published: Nov 4, 2009 at 9:45 PM EST

Story Updated: Nov 4, 2009 at 9:21 PM EST

HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) - A federal judge has approved a settlement
ending a prison lawsuit filed by Pamela Smart, who is serving a
life sentence in one of New Hampshire's most notorious murders.

Smart claimed unfair treatment by New York prison officials
after racy photographs of her in her prison cell appeared in the
National Enquirer. She claimed the pictures were taken by a guard
who sexually assaulted her.

U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet on Monday approved a
$23,875 payment to Smart from the state of New York, where she is
in custody at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Under the
settlement, New York state did not admit liability.

Smart is 42 and was convicted in 1991 for enlisting her teenage
boyfriend William Flynn to kill her husband, Gregory.
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Information from: Portsmouth Herald,
http://www.seacoastonline.com

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