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Decision in 2013 to over turn that conviction and then in 2016 reinstated when the same state supreme court ruled that there had to be a new trial period what is new is that that same high court by a 4-3 three decisn has overturned the previous ruling and now rules that his trial attorney did not show the court evidence of a possible alibi. justice richard palmer writing for the majority saying that basically he had faced biased, his attorney had not gotten alibi testimony from dennis osorio. writing without his testimony, the state was able to attack the petitioners alibi, that being skakel, the complete alibi for the time period where it is highly likely that the victim was murdered. as part of a skakel family conspiracy to cover up the petitioner s involvement in the murder. several other suspects, the brother tommy, and a live-in tutor could have committed the murder while skakel was watching ....
Now vacating the decade old murder conviction of michael stay cold, he is a rent relative of the kennedy family. he is ordering a new trial in connection with the 1975 killing of young martha moxley in their wealthy greenwich neighborhood. ed henry, chief national correspondent joins us now with the back story tonight. it is really the case that will not end, reinstating the kennedy cousin s murder conviction in that 1975 case. the ruling that a new trial has to be held for kennedy cousin michael, he had been convicted of bludgeoning her to death with a golf club 40 years ago in connecticut when they were both teenagers. skakel is the nephew of robert f. kennedy. robert f. kennedy jr. taken this up as a cause, the police messed up the investigation period in 2002 he was handed a prison term of 20-life and was released on bail after a lower court ....