Crime & Safety
Skakel Seeks to Suppress Memoir Tapes
The tapes reportedly include Skakel discussion the Martha Moxley murder.
An attorney for Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel has filed motions seeking to suppress tapes Skakel recorded when he contemplated writing a memoir that included information about the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley, according to a report.
Skakel, a son of Rushton Skakel and nephew of Ethel Skakel Kennedy, contracted writer Richard Hoffman to help ghostwrite his memoir, reportedly titled "Dead Man Talking: A Kennedy Cousin Comes Clean," back in 1997, according to a Greenwich Time report.
The 53-year-old Skakel,, who is awaiting a new trial after his murder conviction was overturned last fall, has his legal team trying to prevent the tapes from being used again as evidence. Attorney Stephan Seeger filed two motions in state Superior Court in Stamford this week to suppress the "Hoffman Tapes" and have other personal effects taken from Hoffman returned to Skakel.
Skakel, who remains under court-mandated electronic tracking, didn't comment after the hearing.
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