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Michael Skakel begs for murder sentence leniency

Convicted murderer Michael Skakel returned to court today to urge a three-judge panel to shorten his prison sentence. Skakel, a former Greenwich resident, was found guilty in 2003 of bludgeoning neighbor

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Jan 24, 2012, 7:26 PM

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