Skakel to take stand in murder appeal

... 20 years to life for the 1975 golf club bludgeoning of Martha Moxley when they were 15-year-old neighbors in Greenwich. Skakel argues trial attorney Michael Sherman got caught up in the limelight of the high-profile case and failed to prepare. ...

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