New Hampshire high court rejects Pamela Smart's latest chance at freedom

The New Hampshire Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed Pamela Smart's latest challenge to her life sentence in prison. The high court wrote that it does not have oversight power to direct the governor and his executive council to reconsider Smart's request for a sentence reduction, which was denied last year. Any authority the court would impose over the commutation process would "violate the separation of powers doctrine," it reasoned in the ruling on Wednesday. Smart told ABC last month that the court's decision would likely be her last chance at...