Posted on 08/29/2002 6:34:07 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:49 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
NORWALK -- A judge yesterday rebuffed Michael Skakel's last-minute bid for a new trial, eliminating any chance the convicted murderer had to avoid a prison sentence and rejecting defense arguments that Skakel did not get a fair trial for the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley.
In a packed courtroom filled with mostly familiar faces from the five-week trial this spring, Skakel's trial attorney, Michael Sherman, and his new appellate attorney, Hubert Santos, argued unsuccessfully that prosecutors withheld evidence and the judge erred when instructing the jury.
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Yeh, right. I'd be surprised if the judge allows that. Talk abput a flight risk.
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