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Michael Skakel free: Supreme Court won’t hear case
The Mercury News/Associated Press ^
| 01/07/2019
| JESSICA GRESKO and DAVE COLLINS
Posted on 01/07/2019 2:45:54 PM PST by sodpoodle
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I did not remember that Skakel and Martha were both only 15 years old at the time.
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posted on
01/07/2019 2:45:54 PM PST
by
sodpoodle
To: sodpoodle
Did Skakel wear a neck brace to his trial?
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posted on
01/07/2019 2:47:05 PM PST
by
laconic
To: laconic
He accidentally brought his Uncles snorkle
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posted on
01/07/2019 2:51:23 PM PST
by
albie
To: sodpoodle
So, he was FREE for 27 years PRIOR to his conviction, served 16 years, and is now FREE again?
I guess now his only choice is to run for office! *SPIT*
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posted on
01/07/2019 2:52:05 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
To: sodpoodle
a 2018 decision by Connecticuts highest court throwing out Skakels conviction will stand. Connecticuts highest court based its decision on Skakels attorneys failure to seek out an additional alibi witness.Failed to SEEK OUT? Is there any reason to think "an additional alibi witness" existed?
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posted on
01/07/2019 2:53:36 PM PST
by
NobleFree
("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
To: laconic
The movie “Chappaquiddick” is chilling. That poor girl was alive while The Swimmer and his minions puttered about on the bridge wringing their hands about how The Swimmer’s Presidential aspirations were done.
Turns out all they had to do was call a tow truck and yank the car out of the water. If they had, “Chappaquiddick” would never have become a household name and there may have been a second President Kennedy, God forbid.
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posted on
01/07/2019 2:53:59 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Democracy dies when Democrats decide only elections they win are valid.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
well, must remember; life is different if you’re a Kennedy.
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posted on
01/07/2019 2:54:07 PM PST
by
Segovia
To: sodpoodle
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posted on
01/07/2019 2:55:36 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: sodpoodle
Connecticuts Supreme Court reinstated Skakels conviction in December 2016, ruling 4-3 that Skakel was adequately represented. That decision didnt last. After the justice who wrote the majority opinion retired, Skakel asked that the decision be reconsidered, and the court reversed its decision."Your Honor, you can retire ... or mysteriously disappear."
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posted on
01/07/2019 2:55:50 PM PST
by
NobleFree
("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
To: sodpoodle
Kennedy Klan Killers walk again.
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posted on
01/07/2019 2:56:19 PM PST
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: sodpoodle
Once again, the Kennedy get-out-of-jail-free card curse rears its ugly head.
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posted on
01/07/2019 2:56:33 PM PST
by
Zhang Fei
(They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
I’m not defending him, but 16 years in prison for a killing someone when you’re 16 years old is actually a pretty reasonable punishment when looking at what MOST courts would do.
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posted on
01/07/2019 2:57:01 PM PST
by
for-q-clinton
(This article needs a fact checked)
To: laconic
Did Skakel wear a neck brace to his trial?
Just a golf glove, I think.
To: Diana in Wisconsin
CNN/ HLN “expert” on crime!
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posted on
01/07/2019 2:57:54 PM PST
by
GOYAKLA
(Winning not whining!)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
It was always a bizarre case in that he was tried as an adult only because he wasn’t arrested for the crime at the age of 15.
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posted on
01/07/2019 2:58:14 PM PST
by
Alberta's Child
(In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.)
To: laconic
The violent deaths of John, Robert and John Jr. were shocking. All so young.
Then there are these relatives; Skakel & William Kennedy Smith (famous for a well-publicized 1991 rape trial in which he was acquitted) and dear old Ted & Mary Jo Kopechne.
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posted on
01/07/2019 2:58:48 PM PST
by
sodpoodle
(Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
To: sodpoodle
Skakel was a tree-climbing master-debater.
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posted on
01/07/2019 2:59:04 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(I don't watch CNN for the same reason I don't drink from the toilet.)
To: sodpoodle
....it’s a wonder he didn’t wait a week
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posted on
01/07/2019 2:59:45 PM PST
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: sodpoodle
Your Justices on the Supreme Court do not care.
To: rfp1234
LMAO.
I remember that part of the case. He claimed he was masturbating in a tree outside Moxley's window to establish a reason why his -- uh, "DNA" was found at the scene.
Best comment I heard at the time:
"I would have confessed to the murder before I ever admitted to something like that."
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posted on
01/07/2019 3:01:09 PM PST
by
Alberta's Child
(In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.)
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