Prosecutors and Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel's attorney have filed court papers in his 2002 murder conviction appeal in which they disagree about the strength of the government's case and the effectiveness of his trial attorney.
Skakel argues trial attorney Michael Sherman failed to competently defend him when he was convicted in the golf club bludgeoning of his Greenwich neighbor Martha Moxley in 1975, when they were 15. Skakel, who is serving 20 years to life, is the 52-year-old nephew of Robert F. Kennedy's widow, Ethel Kennedy.
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