Posted on 01/07/2019 2:45:54 PM PST by sodpoodle
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court announced Monday that it is leaving in place a decision that vacated a murder conviction against Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel.
Skakel was convicted in 2002 of the 1975 bludgeoning death of Martha Moxley, a 15-year-old who lived across the street from the Skakel family in Greenwich, Connecticut, and whose body was found in her family’s backyard. Both Skakel and Moxley were 15 at the time of her death.
The high court’s refusal to hear the case means that a 2018 decision by Connecticut’s highest court throwing out Skakel’s conviction will stand. Connecticut’s highest court based its decision on Skakel’s attorney’s failure to seek out an additional alibi witness.
Though it would be difficult, the state could retry Skakel, who is a nephew of Robert F. Kennedy’s widow, Ethel Kennedy. The state has not said how it would proceed if the Supreme Court declined to intervene. Top Connecticut prosecutors said Monday they appreciated the Supreme Court’s consideration of their request to hear the case, but declined further comment.
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Michael Skakel free:
The FIX was in. Money and power are above the law. Wonder how much the bribes cost his family?
America: “The more money ya got, the more “justice” you can buy...”
Author Dunne’s daughter was also murdered, wasn’t she?
Of course...he is part of the Kennedy clan they never serve full time.
Here in Connecticut, he'd probably get elected too.
I am NOT kidding.
I know you’re not! :(
>>The FIX was in. Money and power are above the law.
If this were true, he never would have been convicted or gotten out a LONG time ago. The Conn. Supreme Court denied his appeal in 2006. Had the fix been in, they or a lower court would have granted it. He was indicted by a one man grand jury (see if you can find that anywhere else); he was tried as an adult although he was 15; hell, the trial judge would have found him not guilty notwithstanding the verdict. I don’t know if he has that ability in Conn., but he could have made things very tough for the prosecution and instructed the jury as he wished.
I think it was actually the opposite: its virtually impossible to prove someone murdered someone 27 years after the murder occurred. He likely got convicted because the whole Kennedy privilege think took over for reasonable doubt.
I don’t know if he did it or not, but he deserved the presumption of innocence and a fair trial. I’m not sure he got either.
Pretty much, all the license one needs to do to commit heinous and vicious crime, or murder, is to be related to a democrat politician. Literally.
How is this not true?
In this case, the “case” is thrown, because of a bad defense?
If this is the case, a case should be brought forward to investigate conspiracy. Quite possibly more than one.
So what of the brutally murdered young girl? Or her family?
The system which allows this, is guilty of the same immorality
- Oh well, one less mouth to feed.
No truly moral court would just blow off the murder of a young girl, even on a likely purposeful technicality.
Without morality, liberty ceases to exist.
“The violent deaths of John, Robert and John Jr. were shocking. All so young.”
Don’t forget about Michael Kennedy’s Aspen ski death: http://www.cnn.com/US/9712/31/kennedy.update.2/
The online videos about the questions surrounding John Jr’s plane crash are disturbing to say the least.
The SC is correct in not getting involved in a state jurisdiction case.
Believe you are correct. The Moxley tragedy hit home.
I don’t think it’s suspicious at all. The flight was about 90% complete, and then he decided to take a shortcut over the water. He lost his visual horizon in the darkness and that was it.
Ahh...I loved this guy. There’s a pretty good documentary of his life on Amazon Prime.
SPJNK.
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