Skakel prosecutors mulling new murder trial face obstacles
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Now that a court has struck down the murder conviction of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, the next step in the decades-long legal saga is up to Connecticut prosecutors, who must decide whether to seek a new trial in the 1975 slaying.
As they mull prospects for another guilty verdict they will have to consider a number of new twists that have emerged since Skakel was convicted in 2002 of killing Martha Moxley with a golf club when they were teenage neighbors in the exclusive Belle Haven shoreline section of Greenwich.
They may also consider the reluctance of Martha's mother, Dorthy Moxley, who told The Associated Press on Monday she was satisfied that Skakel had been punished enough.
Skakel, 57, a nephew of Robert F.