HARTFORD, Connecticut.- Kennedy's cousin, Michael Skakel, whose conviction for murdering a teenager in Connecticut in the 1970s was overturned, is suing the
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Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel is suing a police investigator and the town of Greenwich, Connecticut, more than five years after his murder conviction was overturned. Skakel was found guilty in 2002 of the killing of Martha Moxley in their Greenwich neighborhood in 1975 when they were both 15. He served more than 11 years in prison before the state Supreme Court overturned his conviction. Skakel s lawsuit alleges malicious prosecution, civil rights violations and other wrongdoing. Skakel says the police investigator, Frank Garr, withheld key evidence that favored Skakel. The state attorney general s office, which is representing Garr, declined to comment. A lawyer for Greenwich did not return a message seeking comment.