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.