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Kennedy cousin loses appeal in murder conviction
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| Apr 12
| JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN
Posted on 04/12/2010 8:57:20 AM PDT by JoeProBono
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel lost his bid for a new trial in the 1975 slaying of his 15-year-old neighbor when the state Supreme Court on Monday rejected his appeal that cited a claim implicating two other men.
The court ruled 4-1 against Skakel's request.
Skakel - a nephew of Robert Kennedy's widow, Ethel - was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison in 2002 for fatally beating Martha Moxley with a golf club in 1975 in a wealthy Connecticut suburb
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: abuseofpower; connecticut; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; getoutofjailfree; jpb; kennedy; kennedyfamily; kennedyklan; kennedyscandals; michaelskakel; murder; murderer; rfkjr; ruling; skakel
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To: JoeProBono
in a normal society,
most of the kennedys would be in jail.
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posted on
04/12/2010 8:58:16 AM PDT
by
ken21
(i am not voting for a rino-progressive.)
To: JoeProBono
3
posted on
04/12/2010 8:58:32 AM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Live jubtabulously!)
To: JoeProBono
The USA has no chance to be completely safe so long as a single member of that clan is walking free amongst us.
4
posted on
04/12/2010 8:58:45 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Craven spirits wear their master's collars but real men would rather feed the battlefield's vultures)
To: JoeProBono
5
posted on
04/12/2010 9:01:27 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
To: JoeProBono
If that slimey,privileged Kennedy had fessed up in the beginning he,under laws in effect at the time,would have spent a few years in some juvenile facility and,once released,his record would have been expunged.
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posted on
04/12/2010 9:02:28 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
To: JoeProBono
I wonder how much money the Kennedys paid Gitano “Tony” Bryant (and ultimately wasted, it appears) to make up his story.
7
posted on
04/12/2010 9:04:21 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
To: JoeProBono
Skakel’s mistake was to use a golf club instead of a car.
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posted on
04/12/2010 9:04:27 AM PDT
by
Haiku Guy
(Gov. Chris Christie (R) won the NJ-6 held by Rep. Frank Pallone (D) by a 15.5% margin!)
To: JoeProBono
Let us hope that this evil family vanishes from public life forever.
9
posted on
04/12/2010 9:05:18 AM PDT
by
FormerACLUmember
(The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Menken.)
To: Haiku Guy
Let’s format that...
Skakel’s big mistake
Was to use a five-iron,
Instead of a car...
10
posted on
04/12/2010 9:06:04 AM PDT
by
Haiku Guy
(Gov. Chris Christie (R) won the NJ-6 held by Rep. Frank Pallone (D) by a 15.5% margin!)
To: JoeProBono
This was not a clear-cut case.
11
posted on
04/12/2010 9:08:11 AM PDT
by
stinkerpot65
(Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
To: JoeProBono; dixiechick2000
old nopardons was on top of this case..
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posted on
04/12/2010 9:08:19 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Will adobe ever fix shockwave to work consistently?)
To: Haiku Guy
.
Let’s format that...
Skakel’s big mistake
Was to use a five-iron,
Instead of a car..L
L!
13
posted on
04/12/2010 9:09:20 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Zer0 to the voters: "Here's my DeathCARE Plan"...now....just die (quicky), please. :^)
To: JoeProBono
upholding the family tradition of killing women.
The Kennedy's must be so proud.
To: JoeProBono
Hello Kennedy men! What's
your legacy?
15
posted on
04/12/2010 9:14:52 AM PDT
by
dead
To: JoeProBono
At least he stopped wearing his Thurston Howell III ascots.
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posted on
04/12/2010 9:15:53 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: stinkerpot65
I think it was a pretty clear-cut case, as these cases go. The story as I remember it was that the Skakel family hired a private investigator to check and see if Tommy Skakel was the perp . . . and the investigator came back with a report that basically said: "The good news is that your son Tommy is innocent; the bad news is that your other son Michael was the one who did it."
The findings stayed buried for years until the PI firm fired one of their employees -- and that former employee (who figured he/she was no longer bound by the confidentiality terms of employment) leaked the information to the press.
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posted on
04/12/2010 9:19:17 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("Let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark.")
To: JoeProBono
In his latest attempt at a retrial, he tried to have the court review the claim of some black guy who blamed two other black guys for the murder.
There is no evidence that any of these guys had ever been in this lily white gated enclave of Greenwich in their lives, but some Kennedy needed some black guys to take a fall for him.
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posted on
04/12/2010 9:22:53 AM PDT
by
dead
To: ken21
The Kennedys have done more to destroy their family name than just about any other actual family I’ve ever heard of.
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posted on
04/12/2010 9:24:27 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Be still & kneel before the all knowing/seeing Omnipotent One, Il Douche' Jr. blessings be upon him.)
To: Haiku Guy
Oh!!!!!! That’s cruel. And you owe me a new keyboard for spilling my drink on it because I laughed so hard.
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posted on
04/12/2010 9:25:33 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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