Connecticut prosecutors ask court to order Kennedy kin back to jail

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

World | Wed Feb 24, 2016 3:33pm EST

Connecticut prosecutors ask court to order Kennedy kin back to jail

BY SCOTT MALONE

Connecticut prosecutors asked the state's top court on Wednesday to return Kennedy family member Michael Skakel to prison to serve the last nine years of a sentence imposed after he was convicted of murdering a friend four decades ago.

Skakel, a nephew of Ethel Kennedy, widow of slain U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, has been under legal scrutiny since his neighbor Martha Moxley was beaten to death with a golf club near his Greenwich, Connecticut, home in 1975. Both Skakel and Moxley were 15 years old at the time.

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Prosecutors charged Michael Skakel, now 55, with murder after three witnesses, including two people who had attended a controversial and violent Maine drug rehabilitation program with Skakel in the late 1970s, testified that Skakel had confessed to them that he had murdered Moxley.

He was sentenced in 2002 to serve 20 years in prison, but was released on $1.2 million bond in 2013 after a new attorney, Hubert Santos, persuaded a state court that the attorney who defended him at trial did a poor job.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-connecticut-skakel-idUSKCN0VX1WD

[saturnsring]

1. hey he has affluenza so you have to let him go

[Glorfindel]

2. Seriously, does anyone consider the nephew of one's sister-in-law to be a family member?

I don't, even though I know some of my sister-in-law's nephews and they're pretty nice guys.

[Eugene]

3. That clan is close. He is considered to be a Kennedy

and he has always been treated like one.