Time Limit Challenge Rejected in Skakel Case

A judge in Stamford refused to throw out murder charges against Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, rejecting defense claims that a statute of limitations was in effect at the time of the 1975 slaying.

Defense lawyer Michael Sherman said he was not surprised by the decision and that an appeal was unlikely.

“I’ve always felt the most appropriate way to resolve this case is a trial, by a jury,” he said.

Skakel, 41, a nephew of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, is charged with killing Martha Moxley, a neighbor who was beaten to death with a golf club. Skakel and Moxley were both 15 at the time of her death.