Connecticut Supreme Court

Manella, I was flabbergasted.

Callahan would later become Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Callahan barred Manella from calling priests and self-described demonologists even outside the jury's presence for an appeal record.

The door was shut, not just on the defense, but on the question.

Manella, I was flabbergasted.

Callahan would later become Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Callahan barred Manella from calling priests and self-described demonologists even outside the jury's presence for an appeal record.

The door was shut, not just on the defense, but on the question.

In November 2013, Michael Skakel was released on a $1.2 million bond with a GPS tracker and bound to the state of Connecticut.

Then out of the blue, Connecticut Supreme Court reinstated Michael's murder conviction, writing that the result was based on, quote, overwhelming evidence presented by prosecutors and that his legal representation had been adequate.

Then, just as abruptly, in May of 2018, the court ruled that Michael's attorney, Nikki Sherman, had, quote, rendered ineffective assistance and called for a new trial.

Whiplash going back and forth.

who was also 15 at the time of the slaying, was convicted of the murder and sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.

However, he maintained his innocence, and on May 4th of 2018, the Connecticut Supreme Court vacated his conviction, and in 2020, the case was actually reopened.

And the next one I'm going to tell you about, I remember very well.

This happened in 1992, and it was really close to home in New Orleans, where a Japanese exchange student never made it to his Halloween party.

He's just sitting in his car.

According to trial evidence later summarized by the Connecticut Supreme Court, he was allegedly there in the parking lot of that grocery store where to have a meeting about money owed to him per construction work that he assisted with.

And while he was there, he noticed Jennifer and Michaela.

He noticed their Chrysler Pacifica.

But I'm sure we'll get back to that, right? William Pettit was taken to St.

Mary's Hospital in Waterbury, and he had suffered severe head injuries, and his blood loss was extraordinary.

The Connecticut Supreme Court's account estimates that he lost between five and seven pints of blood.

And for a context, an average adult has approximately 10 pints of blood circulating in the body.

He was later granted permission to relocate him and his family to New York, which I cannot blame him because I'm sure a lot of rumors were going around town.

In 2018, Michael's murder conviction was vacated by the Connecticut Supreme Court, in which they ruled that his attorney had failed to call an alibi witness.

They are saying that Michael wasn't given a fair trial.

Mm-hmm.

Meanwhile, with the case back open, Rushton Skakel made an interesting move of his own.

He hired a private investigation firm called Sutton Associates, in the words of the Connecticut Supreme Court, in the hopes of exonerating his family.

So he said he wanted to pay upwards of $100,000 of his own money to find out once and for all if either of his sons could have been involved in this and then publish the results of this story or the report to prove that his family had nothing to do with Martha's murder because now they're all, everyone's buzzing around talking about it.

Well, this backfired spectacularly.

In January of 2003, amidst Michael's legal team appealing the conviction, RFK Jr. published a long piece in Atlantic called A Miscarriage of Justice.

In the article, he argued that Michael had been railroaded and pointed the finger at Ken Littleton.

Three years later, in 2006, the Connecticut Supreme Court upheld the conviction.

So Michael's still locked up.

things rather than the love and the care that she had gotten.

And we fought it all the way to the Connecticut Supreme Court.

We didn't win, but we got the law changed.

We got the Do you have