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...Michael was so totally out it (sic) he was being a total ass hole in his actions and words," she said in one haunting entry about Skakel, who was her friend and neighbor in Greenwich, "He kept telling me that I was leading Tom (Skakel's elder brother) on when I don't like him, except as a friend...
...Well what about you and Jackie? You keep telling me that you don't like her and you're all over her'. He doesn't understand that he can be nice to her without hanging all over her." Seated on the front bench of the public gallery, two of Skakel's other brothers, Rushton and Stephen, and his sister Julie, listened closely as O'Hara continued. "Michael jumps to conclusions. I can't be friends with Tom. Just because I talk to him, it doesn't mean I like him. I really have to stop going over there...
...weeks later, Moxley's partly naked, battered body was found under a pine tree on the grounds of her home. She was beaten to death with a golf club after going to the Skakel home with a group of friends. Thomas, a onetime suspect in the case, and Michael, said to have had a crush on the girl, were among the last people to see her alive. The defense has tried to suppress the diary, branding it hearsay. But Judge John Kavanewsky has allowed the entries as they display Moxley's "emotional state of mind...
...Clearly annoyed, defense attorney Michael Sherman told the jury the prosecution put O'Hara on the stand to tell them that Moxley flirted with Michael Skakel, part of the prosecution's theory of why he allegedly killed her. "That's what she's here for," he barked. Attempting to counter the testimony about Moxley's flirtations, he asked O'Hara: "Did that lead you to believe that someone was going to be murdered? Did you think "Oh my gosh, something horrible is going to happen?" "No," she replied...
...Skakel, dressed in a gray pinstriped suit, stared at Littleton, as he explained who he'd been upstairs in the Skakel home watching the movie "The French Connection" on TV, but went outside after the family nanny had asked him to investigate a "fracas or noise" outside. "I heard some scuffling in the leaves and it sort of spooked me, to honest with you," he said. Littleton said he had only started work for the Skakels that night, the night before Halloween. He added that when he arrived back at house the next day it was in an uproar with...