Attorney Stephan Seeger said he "spent over 11 years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit," changing "life as he knew it" forever.
Michael Skakel, a Kennedy family member convicted of murdering an adolescent neighbor, will sue the Connecticut town and a former police officer for his life-changing conviction.
Skakel, 63, sued Greenwich and Frank Garr, the lead police investigator in Martha Moxley's murder, in state court on Oct. 30.
In 2002, Skakel, a nephew of Ethel Kennedy, was convicted of bludgeoning Moxley, a neighbor, on Oct. 30, 1975.
When Moxley and Skakel were 15, he was sentenced to 20–life in prison. Due to poor counsel representation, a Connecticut judge granted Skakel a new trial and released him on bail in 2013.
In 2020, prosecutors declined a fresh trial after Connecticut's Supreme Court reversed the conviction in 2018.
Stephan Seeger, Skakel's attorney, claimed his client's life was irreversibly changed despite latter courtroom successes.
"Michael spent over 11 years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit," said Seeger. "He can't get back his time, connections, and life. Recourse is limited to the courts for falsely convicted people."