STAMFORD, Conn.
A classmate of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel testified Wednesday that he told attorneys before Skakel's 2002 trial about a claim implicating two other men in the 1975 murder that sent Skakel to prison.Crawford Mills, who went to a private school with Skakel in exclusive Greenwich, testified that he told Skakel attorney Michael Sherman and prosecutor Jonathan Benedict in January 2002 about Tony "Gitano" Bryant's claim that two other men were responsible for killing 15-year-old Martha Moxley.
Skakel, 46, is serving 20 years to life in prison for beating Moxley to death with a golf club. He was convicted in June 2002.
Bryant's account surfaced in 2003 after Skakel cousin Robert Kennedy Jr. did his own sleuthing in an effort to clear Skakel's name. To win a new trial, Skakel's attorneys must show that the account is evidence not available at the time of his trial and that it likely would have changed the verdict. Bryant also went to school with Skakel and Mills.
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