On Friday, as Michael Skakel stood to hear the Norwalk Superior Court jury foreman read his guilty verdict, about 20 friends and family members stood behind him. When judicial marshals stepped forw… ...

Rushton Skakel Jr., Skakel’s older brother, and his cousin James Dowdle said Michael Skakel was with them when they left the Skakel house about 9:30 p.m. They said they left the Dowdles ...

Last Friday came the shocking news that Michael Skakel, the Kennedy cousin finally found guilty of murder back in 2002, had his conviction vacated. Then again, the degree of shock depends on your r… ...

Earlier, jurors heard from Skakel's 43-year-old brother John, who stood by a statement he gave to police in 1975 that Michael Skakel was among the family members who traveled to their cousin's house.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel’s conviction for a 1975 murder was the result of a myriad of poor decisions by his trial lawyer, who failed to tell jurors that his brother ...

The Connecticut Supreme Court has vacated Michael Skakel’s conviction in a decades-old murder case and ordered a new trial. Skakel, the 57-year-old nephew of Robert and Ethel Kennedy, served ...

Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel out of prison as he awaits new trial Michael Skakel, left, with attorney Jessica Santos, outside the courthouse Thursday after his release. (Craig Ruttle/AP)After 11 ...

Afterward, she stopped by the Skakel house next door. By the end of the night, she was dead. ... Michael Skakel was not indicted until 2000, after a friend contacted authorities.

Michael Skakel, a Kennedy relative convicted of the 1975 murder of a 15-year-old neighbor, walked out of a Connecticut courthouse Thursday on bail. A Connecticut judge set bail at $1.2 million for ...

The Diary of Martha Moxley 41:49. Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, whose murder conviction in the 1970s killing of a teenager in Connecticut was overturned, is suing the lead police investigator in ...

STAMFORD, Conn.—No longer in handcuffs or leg shackles, Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel walked out of court Thursday into the autumn chill a free man for the first time in more than a decade ...

Despite that windfall, Michael Skakel’s cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "confirmed that resources were running low and that [he] had to sell his small house in the Catskills, near the home of his son.