Skakel Sues Greenwich, Seeking $15,000+

63-year-old Michael Skakel, a Kennedy cousin, is suing the town of Greenwich and its lead police investigator, Frank Garr, for alleged malicious prosecution, civil rights violations, and other claimed wrongdoing, seeking damages of more than $15,000. The lawsuit asserts that Skakel's civil rights were knowingly violated, and that the investigator withheld key evidence about other potential suspects from Skakel’s trial defense. Skakel was found guilty in 2002 of Martha Moxley’s murder, but his conviction was overturned in 2018, and prosecutors announced in 2020 that they would not retry him. The lawsuit was filed in state Superior Court in December 2023.