Kennedy Cousin in Jail for Murder Gets Parole Hearing
First parole hearing, has been in prison for ten years for murdering a neighbor in 1975
Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel will get his first parole hearing to determine whether he should be released from prison a decade after he was convicted of killing his neighbor.
Skakel is serving 20 years to life for fatally beating Martha Moxley with a golf club in 1975 in Greenwich when they were 15. Skakel is a nephew of Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy.
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