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Testimony: Skakel Figure Changed Story

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 6:49:53 PM
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN

Michael Skakel stands in Superior Court in Stamford, Conn., Thursday, April 19, 2007, for a hearing to determine if can get a new trial. Skakel was convicted in 2002 for the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey, Pool)STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - A man who implicated two friends in a murder that sent Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel to prison backed off a bit from his account when a state investigator questioned him, according to testimony Tuesday.

Skakel, who was convicted in 2002 of killing Martha Moxley in 1975 and is serving 20 years to life in prison, is seeking a new trial because of Gitano "Tony" Bryant's claim that two other men told him they got Moxley "caveman style."

To win a new trial, Skakel's attorneys must prove that new evidence not available before his conviction could have changed the jury's verdict.


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