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STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. MICHAEL SKAKEL (SC 16844)
Sullivan, C. J., and Katz, Palmer, Vertefeuille and Zarella, Js. Argued January 14, 2005--officially released January 24, 2006

Hope C. Seeley, with whom were Hubert J. Santos, Steven D. Ecker, and, on the brief, Patrick S. Bristol and Sandra L. Snaden, for the appellant (defendant). Susann E. Gill, senior assistant state's attorney, with whom were Christopher L. Morano, chief state's attorney, and Jonathan C. Benedict, state's attorney, for the appellee (state).
Opinion

PALMER, J. On October 31, 1975, fifteen year old Martha Moxley was found bludgeoned to death in a wooded area on the grounds near her family home in Greenwich. No one was charged in connection with her murder until twenty-five years later, when the defendant, Michael Skakel, a fifteen year old neighbor of the

victim at the time of her death, was arrested and charged with the crime. The case initially was brought in the Superior Court for Juvenile Matters and, thereafter, transferred to the regular criminal docket of the Superior Court. Thereafter, the case was tried to a jury, which found him guilty of murder in violation of General Statutes (Rev. to 1975)

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