The article outlines the debatable moves included in Sherman’s Skakel defense, and chronicles the celebrity lawyer’s rise to fame and run-ins with the law.
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Kennedy-family member Michael Skakel’s 2002 conviction for the 1976 murder of his neighbor was overturned last month because a Connecticut judge held that Skakel’s attorney, the television legal commentator Mickey Sherman, did an inexcusably poor job defending his client despite being paid more than $1.2 million to do the job. So reports The New York Times.
The article outlines the debatable moves included in Sherman’s Skakel defense, and chronicles the celebrity lawyer’s rise to fame and run-ins with the law.