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Skakel Sues TV Host for Slander
Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel claims that Nancy Grace and a correspondent made slanderous comments about him, according to The Norwalk Hour.
The day before Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel appeared before a parole board seeking early release from the prison sentence he is serving, he filed a lawsuit claiming he was slandered in a January 2012 television show, according to a report in The Norwalk Hour.
According to the story, the suit was filed against Nancy Grace, host of a cable legal television show; Beth Karas, a television news corresponent, and Turner Broadcasting.
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Skakel's lawyer, Steven Seeger filed the lawsuit in state Superior Court in Stamford on Tuesday. It is claimed that Grace and Karas made slanderous comments that Skakel left behind DNA evidence that implicated him in the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley in Greenwich.
On Wednesday morning, the three-member Connecticut Board of Pardons & Paroles denied Skakel's request for early release from the 20 years to life sentence he is serving following his 2002 conviction for Moxley's murder.
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Skakel is a nephew of Ethel Kennedy and the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Ethel Kennedy is the sister of Michael's late father Rushton.
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