Jason Rearick/ASSOCIATED PRESSConvicted murderer and Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel will be granted another trial in the killing of his teenaged neighbor, a judge announced Wednesday in a shocking ruling.
Skakel, 52, has been serving out a 20-year to life prison sentence for the 1975 murder of his neighbor, Martha Moxley and has made many unsuccessful appeals throughout the years for a retrial.
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Connecticut judge Thomas Bishop announced in his 136-page decision that Skakel was never given a fair trial because of blunders made by his defense.
Bishop declared that Skakel's defense 'was in a myriad of ways ineffective,' according to the Hartford Courant, which obtained a copy of the judge's decision.
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Skakel, the nephew of Robert F. Kennedy's widow, Ethel Kennedy, was convicted in 2002 for bludgeoning Moxley to death with a golf club when the two of them were both 15.
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