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| Teen in Smart Case Granted Parole |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 04/14/2003 |
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One of four teenagers convicted of helping Pamela Smart kill her husband -- a murder case that triggered a media frenzy and spawned the 1995 movie 'To Die For' -- will be released after spending nearly 13 years in prison. Raymond Fowler, 31, who has been living in a halfway house in Concord since January, will be released in several weeks, a three-member parole board decided April 3. 'He's a very strong person. He's done everything they've asked,' said Fowler's grandmother, Phila Sturgis, who attended the five-minute hearing. 'He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.' The parole board said in November that he was likely to be freed. 'He's had a good disciplinary record and now we don't consider him a danger to society,' board chairman Thomas Winn said. Fowler, who maintained that his role in the case was minor, said he's been trained as a furniture-maker and will be looking for a job in that field. 'I'm getting my license back, then I can travel,' he said. In 1990, Fowler, then 18, waited in a car while friend William Flynn shot insurance salesman Gregory Smart in the Derry condominium he shared with his wife, Pamela, prosecutors said. Flynn, 16 at the time, had been having an affair with Pamela Smart, a 22-year-old media coordinator at the high school the teens attended. Smart knew Flynn from a self-esteem course she taught at the school. Smart's lawyers argued that Flynn wanted Gregory Smart out of the way so he could continue the affair, which began when he was 15. Prosecutors said Smart wanted her husband killed so she wouldn't lose her condo, furniture and dog in a divorce. Fowler, Flynn and the other students connected to the slaying, Patrick Randall and Vance Lattime, received reduced sentences in exchange for testifying against Pamela Smart, who was sentenced to life without parole. Fowler has said that he believed the teens were going to burglarize the home, not kill Gregory Smart. Fowler pleaded guilty to murder conspiracy and attempted burglary and was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison. Flynn and Randall were sentenced to 28 years to life. Lattime got 18 years to life. |
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