USA Today by John Bacon and Michael Winter November 21, 2013
Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, who won a new trial last month in the slaying of Martha Moxley in 1975, walked out of jail a free man Thursday after being released on $1.2 million bail.
A judge set bail after a brief hearing, ordering Skakel, 53, to remain in Connecticut and wear a tracking device.
The ruling brought applause in the courtroom from family members and other backers of Skakel, who is a nephew of Ethel Kennedy's. Outside the courthouse, Moxley's brother, John, expressed disappointment that Skakel will be freed.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
"If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress, and don’t trust federal judges, to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here." - Barack Obama, June 7, 2013
“I have also been asked if I mind being thrown under the bus and the bottom line is this is about justice and whether Michael Skakel should have been sent to jail and the answer is a very clear no,” he said. “If my reputation suffers some collateral damage, so be it. He should never have been convicted.
“I represented Michael Skakel to the best of my ability and there isn’t a heck of a lot I would have changed had the case been redone. Period.”
Well,isn't it obvious to everyone that the only reason he was convicted was because his family was too poor to hire a good lawyer to defend him?
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
RIGHT'S RIGHT 
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