Posted on 05/04/2018 12:51:41 PM PDT by Puppage
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) - The Connecticut Supreme Court has overturned the 1975 murder conviction of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel.
The Hartford Courant reports that the Connecticut Supreme Court voted 4-3 that Skakel's trial lawyer was so ineffective, that his right to a fair trial was violated. Skakel was convicted in the murder of his friend, Martha Moxley, when the two were neighbors in Greenwich.
Skakel has been free since late 2013 while the court considered this latest appeal. He is expected to remain free unless state prosecutors make what many lawyers predict would be an unlikely decision to retry him on decades-old evidence, the Courant reports.
News 8 spoke with Robert Kennedy Junior Friday afternoon. Upon hearing the news of the court's decision, Kennedy expressed his satisfaction.
"That's fantastic... It's been a long hard fight for justice. Michael Skakel was framed by corrupt prosecutors. This is his vindication."
The golf club used to kill Martha was from an expensive custom set owned by one of Skakel’s parents, his mother, I believe. So someone from the Skakel house killed the girl. Could have been either Thomas or Michael, but since Michael went so far as to confess he was supposedly outside her room in a tree masturbating, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out who the murderer was.
As much as I want to jump on the bandwagon here, it was the CT Supreme Court, not the Feds and not the Justice Department.
Did he do it? Probably.
Would you and I get convicted and released with the same lawyer? Probably.
You can hate the player, but this wasn’t some on the take county judge.
Not entirely. He has been in prison for a while
“Skakel has been free since late 2013 while the court considered this latest appeal”
John Edwards was right, there are two Americas.
Just another Democrat getting away with murder..the Clintons are in fine company
I am absolutely sure that he was represented by a public defender; after all, he does have a right to legal representation.
But Kennedy Millions can buy a Supreme Court.
I wish that just once, we'd get a strict Constitutionalist in as president who would send out the word to the USSC that their task is to interpret law as it regards the Constitution. No more. No less. The Congress legislates and creates laws that require Presidential approval. I want the three branches separate again.
He was represented by Mickey Sherman, who became well known on TV as a legal defense expert during the OJ Simpson trial. Years after the Skakel trial he was convicted of tax evasion.
He had to concoct an alibi like that because he needed to come up with an explanation for the, uh, “DNA” they found at the scene.
Our there was a book written about the school called:Duck in a raincoat”
Let’s not forget William Kennedy Smith’s rape trial in 1991.
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-04-13/news/mn-172_1_kennedy-family
I pray Mrs. Mobley is dead so she doesn’t have to go through this again!!
Sherman was also married to Lis Wiehl.
I watched that trial on TV. Oddly enough I am sure Kennedy was innocent.
Well innocent is not the right word. He did not rape the woman but goodness those Kennedys came across as just plain sorry.
“Michael Skakel claimed that he had been window-peeping and masturbating in a tree beside the Moxley property...”
Sounds like routine for the filthy, degenerate Kennedy clan.Closer to monkeys than normal humans.
” He did not rape the woman but goodness those Kennedys came across as just plain sorry.”
Sure, he had already got off up in the tree.
Another kennedy that killed another female- they sure are hell on women.
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