Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, who won a new trial last month in the slaying of Martha Moxley in 1975, walked out of jail a free man Thursday after being released on $1.2 million bail. A judge set ...

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 the case and the town of Greenwich ...

The Kennedy scion asserted his cousin, Michael Skakel, was 11 miles away from the Connecticut neighborhood where 15-year-old Martha Moxley was bludgeoned to death. Moreover, the “chaotic” yet ...

VERNON, Conn. - Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel is expected to be released from a Connecticut prison this week while prosecutors appeal a ruling granting him a new trial in the 1975 slaying of ...

A Kennedy cousin will not face a second trial in the ... made the announcement at Stamford Superior Court, where Michael Skakel and his lawyer appeared for a hearing in the case.

Kennedy cousin and accused killer Michael Skakel is likely to walk out of a Connecticut courtroom a free man Thursday – temporarily at least. An appeals judge ordered a new trial for Skakel in ...

One of them was written by Mr. Skakel’s cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a former prosecutor and environmental lawyer who provided alternate explanations for the killing and detailed what he ...

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 overturned the conviction of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel in the 1975 murder of his neighbor on Friday, just one year after reinstating it, in a head-turning ...

HARTFORD, Conn. – With a new trial ordered for Michael Skakel, a defense lawyer for the Kennedy cousin serving time in the 1975 slaying of a neighbor said he will seek his release from prison on ...

A prosecutor said Friday that Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel will not face a second trial in the killing of Martha Moxley, an announcement that came 45 years to the day after the teenager was found ...

HARTFORD, Connecticut — 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 the case ...