Bad Blood: Brother Against Brother
A rather interesting article in The Advocate (Stamford, CT) caught my eye this week. It was about Michael Skakel, who was convicted years ago of murdering a neighbor back when they were both teens, and an appeal he's successfully brought for a re-opening of the case. What intrigued me was that, as part of the rationale for once again prying open the case, his lawyers did it on the basis that he received poor lawyering the first time around (even though the lawyer was celebrity Mickey Sherman, of NBC and CNN fame). This, of course, happens But as part of the appeal, Skakel's new attorneys argued that Sherman didn't call the "right" witnesses to testify. One of those witnesses was Thomas, Michael's older brother. The case garnered so much attention because the Skakels were nephews of Ethel Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy's widow. (Another brother was accused of having sex with a minor, but he crashed into a tree skiing and died.) According to a st...