The article outlines the debatable moves included in Sherman’s Skakel defense, and chronicles the celebrity lawyer’s rise to fame and run-ins with the law.
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The Lapses of Skakel’s Celeb Lawyer
Kennedy-family member Michael Skakel’s 2002 conviction for the 1976 murder of his neighbor was overturned last month because a Connecticut judge held that Skakel’s attorney, the television legal commentator Mickey Sherman, did an inexcusably poor job defending his client despite being paid more than $1.2 million to do the job. So reports The New York Times.
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