Skakel Arraigned in Adult Court for Murder
The murder case against Kennedy nephew Michael Skakel shifted Wednesday to adult court with his arraignment.
Skakel, 40, did not enter a plea but has maintained his innocence in the 1975 bludgeoning of his Greenwich neighbor Martha Moxley. He could get life in prison.
Skakel, who was arrested last year, and Moxley were 15 at the time, and the case had been in juvenile court until a judge ruled last month that it should be transferred to adult court.
Investigators said Moxley was beaten to death with a golf club that was matched to a set owned by the Skakel family. Skakel is the son of Rushton Skakel, the brother of Robert F. Kennedy’s widow, Ethel.
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