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New Skakel trial likely to call expert to testify about Elan
Matt C. Hoffman:
Judge Bishop has ordered a new trial for Michael Skakel.
http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/crime/article/Kennedy-cousin-Skakel-wins-new-trial-in-1975-death-4920472.php
Che Gookin:
I hope he gets a fair hearing this time around. Best of luck to him.
Matt C. Hoffman:
Here is the link to Judge Thomas bishop’s ruling concerning Michael Skakel’s heabas corpus trial.
http://apublicdefender.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/skakel-habeas.pdf
Interesting long legal rendering - parts are surprising to me like not having an expert to testify as to what Elan was ( a Synanon comparable/based center or worse as Dr. Ofshe the cult expert testified), and in Judge Bishop's opinion this would not have influenced the out come of the verdict - Slightly baffling to me.
I believe it would have certainly given the jury a better context as to just what the hell went on in that place during that time of Elan's historical context - and what was happening to M. Skakel at the time, who knows how it may have affected a verdict.
-Still- far and wide Sherman was certainly an ineffective counsel at best for a person being charged with such a serious crime and I am glad that Judge Bishop recognized this in his verdict of this Habeas corpus trial.
Matt C. Hoffman:
Today Michael Skakel made bail - It is wonderful - considering that he has had his conviction overturned, from his previous 2002 trial.
This is a very rare occurance in any habeas corpus trial. I am very glad that common sense has prevailed in this case. I do not believe that the prosecutors will be successful in their apeal of Judge Bishop's ruling - though it has been said "that stranger things have happened".
I would hope that the state of Conn. would spend their taxpayer's monies more wisely - than they did by sending their state wards ( children) to Elan for imo fraudulent therapy. Maybe instead of wasting more money on prosecuting Michael Skakel the state of Conn. could try to get their taxpayers money back from Elan - by way of asking the Federal Justice Department to begin an investigation into elan and the state of Maine for imo running a continuing criminal enterprise for close to 40 years.
It would only take one state to start the federal investigation - though there are more states that imo were also defrauded of their taxpayers monies.
This would be a great first step in righting a terrible wrong which was done by the state of Maine by allowing elan to function imo as a continuing criminal enterprise for close to 40 years. Sadistic criminal child abuse is not therapy and that is what elan provide imo for many state's wards for their taxpayer's hard earned dollars. It really is a no brainer - we are talking about fraud on a grand abusive scale.
Still it is a very good day for Michael Skakel and his family and I think justice is finally starting to be served.
http://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/Skakel-a-free-man-bond-set-at-1-2M-4998501.php
Matt C. Hoffman:
Well, well, well- two years have passed, and the prosecution, (on the day Mr.Skakel was released, vowed to appeal ) and if that doesn't fix it the way they want it over there in that sad state of Connecticut which shipped many a state child to the Elan Corporation/school – located in Poland Springs Maine, said that they would, if the appeal failed ( concerning his habeas corpus trial resulting in the verdict of his "release " ) that these sharpshootin prosecutors would then simply re-try him.
Damn that was sure a long dang sentence.
All this pep rally talk and blustering by the prosecution has really only resulted in an appeal filed recently, this past September to be exact, by the prosecutor finally appealing his Habeas Corpus trial's verdict – just this past September mind you – and according to a writer by the name of Mr. Marchant who hacks for the Greenwich Times this past October 29th, 2015 – Mr. Marchant wrote in his article that the prosecutors are appealing Judge Thomas Bishop's ruling that because Mr. Skakel paid 1.5 million dollars for his defense- then and therefore it must be found that Mr. Skakel had competent legal counsel.
- oh my -
I laughed hard when I read Mr. Marchant's words – it was the only redeeming part about his article that I found not to be pure tacky tabloid journalism.
Soo-ooo- the prosecutors are appealing this verdict on simply the amount of money spent – too freaking comical – if it weren't such a sad and tragic case – the death of a little girl.
It behooves the state of Connecticut's prosecutors to read Judge Thomas Bishop's 136 page ruling supporting his rendering of his verdict in throwing out Mr. Skake'ls murder conviction – it has nothing to do with the monies spent – lol.
It is absurd to base an appeal on a case based on the amount of monies spent by a defendant on any case – because sometimes, as in this case, as exhibited by Judge Bishop's 136 page abstract supporting his ruling -it was obvious that the defendant did not have competent legal representation and money had nothing to do with the Honorable Judge Bishop's ruling .
Is the state of Connecticut just dragging their heels- or do they simply don't have a case.
I would post Mr. Marchants article from the October 29, Greenwich Times here – but I won't because for some reason the Greenwich Times still perpetuates the lie, and myth, that the three former residents that were with Mr. Skakel (in Elan), and testified against Mr. Skakel in his original trial in 2002 were in an actual school, called Elan.
And that could not be further from the truth – Elan, located in Poland Springs, Maine was no school by any stretch of anyone's imagination, it was however in my opinion and many other former residents – opinions, a protected continuing criminal enterprise, that existed for close to forty years.
It really is the time for the State of Connecticut to quit wasting their states taxpayer's monies on this case concerning Mr. Skakel and ask the DoJ to begin an investigation into those in Maine State Government that protected, aided and abetted this imo criminal enterprise that lasted for closed to forty years and also investigate and prosecute the adults that ran Elan with and for Joe Ricci, as it operated in my opinion as a continuing criminal enterprise for close to forty years.
The DoJ has a tool called the "Rico Act" in it's investigative and prosecutorial "toolbox", and it is high time that the criminals in Maine state government that protected Elan and aided and abetted Elan – as well as the adult untrained miscreant criminals that ran that brutal ,violent, sadistic soul eating hellhole, by simply directing the "residents" to abuse the living daylights out of each other on a daily basis while fraudulently taking many states tax payer's monies, many insurance company's monies, and many hard earned parent's monies, due to deceptive marketing practices that simply used serial sadistic and violent criminal child abuse as therapy – be investigated by the DoJ and prosecuted by the DoJ using the Rico Act.
It is nothing but a win -win case for the DoJ – and the best thing is it doesn't matter that Elan is closed – the Rico Act can reach back many many years. Joe Ricci began his scam, of criminally abusing children back in the early 70's. His hell hole only recently closed in 2011. At least put the imo adult criminals that made life long careers out of serially abusing children in prison where they belong – where they may hopefully live out long natural lives- in agony like they subjected the " Elan residents" to their sick torture that they fraudulently made monies on for close to forty years.
Man, it is time that justice be found for the many survivors of that insidiously sick fraudulent criminal enterprise, called Elan, that made Joe Ricci tens of millions of dollars.
Talk about justice dragging it's heels- jeezzz.
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