[STARWISE]

Was thinking about Ted today, when the Pentagon attack film was released. We sure miss Barbara.

[digger48]

I saw this last night. Too disappointed to post it.

[Jambe]

Now that Barbara is gone, it looks like Ted has gone over to the DARK SIDE!

Very Sad.

[Spirited]

I wonder whether he was disappointed about not being nominated to Supremes.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Skakel is a very luck man. Ted Olson is brilliant, his character is beyond reproach, and he will give his all.

Skakel is none of the above and deserves none of what is about to be given him.

This is so wrong in so many ways.

[Gay State Conservative]

The first thing that Olsen will have to do is explain how Skakel's family owned a rare and expensive set of golf clubs of the same brand as the club that was found thrust into the girl's neck and that a single club was missing from that set...the same (type of) club found at the murder scene.

[isthisnickcool]

Some lawyers can be paid to do anything. Er, scratch that. MOST lawyers can be paid to do anything.

[Finalapproach29er]

I glad he's doing it. Ex-post facto is wrong- no matter who it is.

It needs to be stopped.

[Peach]

Ted Olson is helping this murderer? OMG

[taillightchaser]

An absolute disgrace to his wife's memory.
Just goes to show--lawyers are the bane of society!!

[Rte66]

" ... Skakel, 45, is serving a sentence of 20 years to life for his 2002 conviction in the 1975 beating death of his Greenwich neighbor, Martha Moxley, when the two were teenagers.

Skakel appealed his conviction to the Connecticut Supreme Court last year, arguing among other issues that the five-year statute of limitations expired when he was charged in 2000. The court unanimously rejected the appeal in January. That decision overturned a 1983 precedent. ..."

I'm confused about what this "5-year statute of limitations" is in reference to. There is no statute of limitations on murder. He was tried and convicted within 2 years of being charged, so it wasn't a 5-year statute for that.

His appeal was rejected in January, 2006 - so maybe this is all it is? That they failed to rule on his appeal within 5 years of when he was *charged*? That doesn't make sense, either. You can't even file an appeal until you've had a conviction.

*Scratching my head here.*

[joebuck]

"Skakel appealed his conviction to the Connecticut Supreme Court last year, arguing among other issues that the five-year statute of limitations expired when he was charged in 2000."

Murder only has a five year statute of limitations in Conn.?