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1 " Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. "
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison For a Murder He Didn't Commit
2 " Michael Skakel settles his 2013 slander lawsuit against HLN host Nancy Grace "
3 " Despite Michael’s ironclad alibi, and the State’s obvious evidentiary defects, a Connecticut court, nevertheless, convicted him of Martha’s murder in 2002 after a six-week jury trial. "
4 " With 401 reporters certified to cover the case, only one, Leslie Stahl, bothered to look beneath the flimsy veneer at the myriad facts undermining the prosecutor’s frail parable. "
5 " CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin and HLN’s Nancy Grace and Beth Karas, "
6 " The media lemming stampede was evidence of a broken system that sacrificed Michael on the altar of ratings and revenue, and compounded the tragedy of Martha Moxley’s death with the conviction of an innocent man. "
7 " The inferno that devoured Michael is no anomaly. It feeds every day on the economically disadvantaged and minorities "
8 " Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. —Unknown "
9 " repeated to me personally, that he "
10 " media condemnation of Michael’s arrogance amplified because he appeared not to be paying attention as he cast his eyes downward toward the defense table. “My wrists were sore from writing ‘Object Mickey! All lies,’” Michael said. During difficult testimony, Michael looked down at the photos of his son, George, and his black lab, Neeta. It was his method for keeping his PTSD symptoms at bay. "
11 " On the book’s back cover, superimposed over Fuhrman’s picture, Fuhrman asked, “Are there two systems of justice in this country—one for the rich, and another for the rest of us? "
12 " I felt as if my alcoholism had been doing push-ups the entire two years that I was dry in Élan. "
13 " I thought my only drinking problem was that I had two hands to hold bottles and only one mouth. "
14 " Dunne’s M.O. never varied. He began by evoking his daughter’s death in a soft-touch approach to the victim’s family. Once his nose was under the tent, Dunne launched into reckless accusations; damning denunciation of the accused; anonymous tips; facts bent to fit his theories; and his reliable old chestnut: accusing power and wealth of evading justice. "
15 " After Dunne’s book tour, Garr led several members of the Moxley investigation team on a visit to Dunne’s home in Hadlyme, Connecticut, bearing gifts: a State Police plaque, a T-shirt, and a mug. They begged him to stop criticizing their work. Dunne agreed to a truce. "
16 " The Simpson verdict was, in part, largely an expression by the majority-black jury of its revulsion for Fuhrman, who embodied the notorious institutional culture of violent racism within the LAPD. "
17 " When police abuse and racial killings are in the news, from Baltimore to Ferguson, Missouri, to Columbia Junction, Fox summons Fuhrman in his tailored suit and “in your face” attitude to explain why police brutality is justified. "
18 " (“I changed the murder weapon to a baseball bat,” Dunne wrote of his process. “I also … gave some Kennedy touches to the Skakels, whom I called the Bradleys. I threw in some of my own Irish Catholic family too. All of this was for libel reasons.”) "
19 " Then along came Mark Fuhrman, whom I grew to admire after the fiasco of the Simpson trial. … Say what you want, the guy is a great detective. "
20 " As is the case with fundamentalism in all denominations, the gravest sins in Rucky’s brand of Catholicism were sexual, "
