Oh well.The fat bastard should've just copped a plea way back when and he'd be a free man.
Michael C. Skakel, the Kennedy cousin who was convicted in 2002 of the killing of a 15-year-old Greenwich, Conn., neighbor in 1975, lost an appeal Monday in which he had sought a new trial.
The Connecticut Supreme Court affirmed the 2007 decision of a trial judge that had said new evidence developed with the help of Mr. Skakel’s prominent cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would not have brought a different outcome at the trial.
The effort for a new trial was based largely on an account by a former classmate of Mr. Skakel’s, Gitano Bryant, who said that two friends went to Greenwich with him the night of the killing and that he suspected they might have killed the 15-year-old, Martha Moxley.
In its ruling, the Supreme Court said the trial judge had reasonably questioned Mr. Bryant’s credibility. “There is no evidence, independent of Bryant,” Monday’s ruling said, “to corroborate any significant aspect of his account of the events of the night of October 30, 1975, whereas there is a plethora of evidence to contradict his account.”
Skakel's current attorney offers up a unique grounds for yet another appeal, claiming his previous high-priced attorney
lacked proper funding.
Skakel attorney Hope Seeley tells The Associated Press that she will file papers in the coming weeks arguing Skakel had ineffective counsel when he was represented by Michael Sherman.
Seeley has said Sherman failed to fully investigate witnesses because he had financial difficulties. Sherman denies that.
How absurd.
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