The trial has produced the state’s biggest media circus since the last presidential primary. One teenage witness, who recorded allegedly incriminating conversations with Smart, has already sold her story to Hollywood for $100,000. Smart’s attorney, Mark Sisti, called the prosecution case “the most vile concoction ever assembled in a courtroom in New Hampshire.” The teen hit men are “coldblooded thrill-killers,” he said, who created their twisted tale to escape first-degree murder convictions
But Patrick Randall, 17, testified that Pamela masterminded every detail, even instructing them to shoot rather than stab her husband to keep blood off the sofa. He said that Smart, on his knees with a gun at his head and a knife to his throat, begged for his life. But when they demanded his wedding ring, Smart refused. Randall asked, “Why?” According to the witness, he replied: “My wife would kill me.”
