let me tell you this, i would rather have jonathan benedict any day of the week because he's more mynality type and my sense is micki was more the skakel personality type but he did some things during the course of the trial that i remember there was one where i called up jonathan benedict and said you guys missed something here and this guy is going to do something, and, you know, he did. it was -- and what he did was he didn't ask any more questions. they -- the state thought that he was going to cross-examine and then they would be able to go back into it and then he saw a hole and he said i'm closing it. no questions, thank you. and it was a -- i thought at the time a critical witness, and i thought it was a brilliant move to do nothing versus doing something, and he was very good in that regard. >> and in your belief michael skakel is still guilty? >> yeah, there were things that come out over the years never part of the trial, just convinced us that he's guilty and so yes, the short answer is yes. >> there are likely appeals before any retrial. those take a lot of time. in the

this case was brilliantly litigated by the prosecutors in this case, led by a prosecutor named jonathan benedictears ago. now it is going to be very difficult to try him again, so that's why the prosecutors, i think, are going to do everything in their power to get this conviction reinstated without having to go back to court. >> ashleigh, remind our viewers what he was convicted of doing to this young woman, martha moxley. >> reporter: well, martha moxley was a friend and neighbor. back on -- i think it was october 30th, 1975, it was a halloween party. he and his brother had been part of this halloween party. it was really michael's brother thomas who had i believe the last to be seen with martha moxley. in any case, the next day she was dead. her body was found in the family's backyard, either beneath or close to a tree. her pants and her underwear had been pulled down, but she hadn't been sexually assaulted. what was found near her body, whether it was a broken or bits and pieces of a golf club. that was determined to be a weapon, because the cause of death was bludgeoning, and it happened to