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| Justices reject Skakel appeal |
| 2006-11-14 |
| Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel lost a longshot effort to win reversal of his murder conviction when the Supreme Court on Monday declined to take his case. The justices refused, without comment, to review Skakel's conviction in the beating death of Martha Moxley, his neighbor in Greenwich, Conn., 31 years ago when the two were teenagers. Skakel, 46, a nephew of Ethel Kennedy, was convicted in 2002. He is serving 20 years to life in prison. Skakel's lawyer had argued that the deadline for prosecuting the crime expired before his client was arrested in January 2000. At the time of Moxley's killing, Connecticut had a five-year statute of limitations on murder cases that did not involve the death penalty. One year later, in 1976, the legislature removed the five-year deadline. The Connecticut Supreme Court upheld Skakel's conviction, ruling that the legislature intended to remove the deadline for prosecution for all crimes, like Moxley's killing, for which the statute of limitations had not yet expired. That ruling now stands. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #3 Poor Baby! He's relatively civilized . . . for a Kennedy. Al |
| Posted by: frozen al 2006-11-14 20:16 |
| #2 fat ascot-wearing fuck should be somebody's bitch in prison. I understand he beat her to death with a golf club- leaving the broken shaft stuck in her throat. Hope he feels the same |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-11-14 19:54 |
| #1 ...IIRC, Skakel's lawyers kind of outsmarted themselves on this one - remember, he got tried in Juvenile Court because they argued that he had been a juvenile at the time of the alleged crime and therefore should be tried under applicable law. They hadn't counted on getting apparently the only judge in Massachusetts who wasn't beholden to the Kennedys in some way shape or form. I have got zero sympathy fro this creep - he knew what he was hiding from, his identity was apparently an open secret among the locals, and his extended family used every bit of influence and power they had to make it go away for as long as they could. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2006-11-14 15:07 |