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Pamela Smart Gets Settlement Over Prison Pictures

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Nov 5, 2009 7:50 am US/Eastern

Pamela Smart Gets Settlement Over Prison Pictures

HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: Pamela Smart during her 1991 trial for planning her husband's murder.
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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.