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Then it began intertwining with several other notorious crimes of the 20th century. In 1991, during the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, a rumor in the press section placed Smith at the Skakel home on the night of the murder in Connecticut that most people had forgotten. The lead proved false but attracted the attention of author Dominick Dunne, an omnipresent analyst of the O.J. Simpson trial and a specialist in high-society true crime; his own daughter was murdered at a young age. Dunne wrote a thinly veiled novelization of the Moxley case, A Season in Purgatory, which became...
...Greenwich in June 1998. Fuhrman believes that testimony from the tutor throws into doubt Michael's original alibi and that his new story is "a concoction that puts him at the scene of the crime, at the time of the crime, without committing it." It appears to have put Skakel in legal jeopardy...
...prosecutors cannot comment on the decision, it may have been influenced not only by the Sutton leaks but also by another unusual break. After seeing an episode about the case on TV's Unsolved Mysteries, several alumni of the Elan School called to say that between 1978 and 1980 Skakel admitted involvement in Moxley's killing. Three of them were among the 40 witnesses Thim called. Their testimony presumably buttressed the passage in Skakel's book proposal, which Fuhrman says he passed on to authorities...
...Michael Skakel is innocent," says his attorney Mickey Sherman. "He was innocent 24 years ago. He is innocent today." Sherman is a frequent talking head on Court TV and enjoys the sweeping statement. But his follow-up comment, "The evidence was not strong enough 25 years ago, let alone today," has some teeth. Even Fuhrman believes the case will have to move forward "absent forensic evidence." The Sutton report, while intriguing, seems like a better argument for reopening the case than clinching it. And the credibility of Skakel's former "classmates" at Elan is being questioned. Joseph Ricci, who owned...
Even if the prosecution can make a damning case, it may not be able to touch Skakel. Since the alleged crime was committed when he was a minor, the case resides in Connecticut juvenile court. Under today's state law, a capital case involving a 15- year-old would automatically be remanded to an adult court. But 1975 law required probable cause for that to happen. If the case stays in juvenile court, Skakel would probably draw no jail time even if convicted. (The model in 1975 was juvenile rehabilitation.) If the case is remanded, Sherman has the right...