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Skakel Murder Trial Continues

Aired May 20, 2002 - 12:37   ET

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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: We turn our attention to that murder trial, the Kennedy cousin, Michael Skakel, the man charged with that murder in that case. The prosecution resumes its case inside today inside that courtroom in Norwalk, Connecticut. Last week, testimony centered on Skakel's alleged confession in the killing of Martha Moxley. And this case has grown wacky by the day.

Deborah Feyerick with more now in Norwalk.

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DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It is all about the confessions, what Michael Skakel did or did not say while he was at a rehab school.

Right now, the jury is hearing testimony from a dead guy, a man who died last year after taking tainted heroin. But, at an earlier hearing, Gregory Coleman testified that he was guarding Michael Skakel late one night. They were in the mess hall. And Skakel was there because he had run away. That's why Coleman was guarding him.

Well, Coleman noticed that he had lot of things, including a record player, which was not allowed to most students. So, he made the comment, "Boy, you get away with murder," to which Michael Skakel allegedly replied: "I am going to get away with murder. I'm a Kennedy."

Coleman testified that Michael Skakel went on to say that he drove her head in, which Coleman took to mean with a golf club. Now, there have been a number of alleged confessions. But what is interesting about them is not their certainty so much as their uncertainty -- a number of students saying that Michael Skakel was confronted over and over again about the death of his friend, and he would say: "I don't remember. I could have done it. I was very drunk. I don't remember."

There was only one person who really took it one step further. And he described a crying Michael Skakel who one night said: "Well, I must have done it. I did it."

Now, this is moving very quickly here, this trial perhaps wrapping up as early as next week.

Deborah Feyerick, CNN, Norwalk, Connecticut. (END VIDEOTAPE)

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