A judge has ordered that convicted murderer and Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel should get a new trial. Prosecutors are appealing the ruling. Skakel was convicted in 2002 of murdering a Connecticut neighbor, Martha Moxley, in 1975 when both were 15, and sentenced to 20 years-to-life.
Assume for the sake of discussion that Skakel actually did commit the murder (which he and the Kennedy family dispute; some people point the finger at his older brother). If he had been caught and prosecuted at that time, he almost certainly would have been treated as a juvenile. Is it right to convict and sentence someone as an adult -- in effect, punishing him for failing to exercise an adult's judgment -- for a crime he committed 27 years earlier when he was 15? I'm no fan of this rich sleazebag, but this seems like a miscarriage of justice. What should happen in a case like this?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/23/justic...kakel-retrial/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Skakel
Assume for the sake of discussion that Skakel actually did commit the murder (which he and the Kennedy family dispute; some people point the finger at his older brother). If he had been caught and prosecuted at that time, he almost certainly would have been treated as a juvenile. Is it right to convict and sentence someone as an adult -- in effect, punishing him for failing to exercise an adult's judgment -- for a crime he committed 27 years earlier when he was 15? I'm no fan of this rich sleazebag, but this seems like a miscarriage of justice. What should happen in a case like this?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/23/justic...kakel-retrial/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Skakel
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