moxley's case drew international attention. michael skakel was convicted bludgeoning moxley to death with a golf club when she was 15. but on friday the connecticut supreme court reversed the conviction which had been upheld by the same court just two years ago and ordered a new trial. justices ruled that skakel's former defense attorney failed to produce evidence. her childhood friends say that she was one of a kind. >> i don't think that she ever met someone who didn't become her friend. >> reporter: robert kennedy jr. wrote a book about it. >> i'm very happy. you know, michael's been through a nightmare. he's innocent. he should never have gone to jail. and we're happy that he's finally getting some justice. >> reporter: the decision comes as a blow to moxley's mother. >> i'm so convinced that he is guilty. i don't think that there is any question about it. >> martha didn't deserve this. >> reporter: christine hopes moxley's family can endure another trial. skakel was released in 2013 after spending more than a decade in pri

moxley's case drew international attention. michael skakel was convicted bludgeoning moxley to death with a golf club when she was 15. but on friday the connecticut supreme court reversed the conviction which had been upheld by the same court just two years ago and ordered a new trial. justices ruled that skakel's former defense attorney failed to produce evidence. her childhood friends say that she was one of a kind. >> i don't think that she ever met someone who didn't become her friend. >> reporter: robert kennedy jr. wrote a book about it. >> i'm very happy. you know, michael's been through a nightmare. he's innocent. he should never have gone to jail. and we're happy that he's finally getting some justice. >> reporter: the decision comes as a blow to moxley's mother. >> i'm so convinced that he is guilty. i don't think that there is any question about it. >> martha didn't deserve this. >> reporter: christine hopes moxley's family can endure another trial. skakel was released in 2013 after spending more than a decade in pri

hox l morks moxley's case drew international intention. michael skakel was convicted bludgeoning moxly to death with a golf club when she was 15. but on friday the connecticut supreme court reversed the conviction which had been upheld by the same court just two years ago and ordered a new trial. justices rule that had skakt hd former defense attorney failed to produce evidence. her childhood friends say that she was one of a kind. >> i don't think that she ever met someone who didn't become her friend. >> reporter: rob brert kert ken wrote a book about it. >> i'm very happy. you know, michael's been through a nightmare. he's innocent. he should never have gone to jail. finally getting some justice. >> reporter: the decision comes as a blow to moxley's mother. >> i'm so convinced that he is guilty. i don't think that there is any question about it. >> martha didn't deserve this. >> reporter: christine hopes moxley's family can endure another trial. skakel was released in 2013 after spending more than a decade in prison. cornell barnard, ab

moxley and weigh their options.ers will meet and certainly we will urge the state's attorney to favorably resolve this case. >> one of the underpinnings of the legal strategy has been to cast suspicion on michael skakel's brother, thomas. and one of the key errors identified by the defense team was that the trial lawyer didn't do that. so, is it michael skakel's position that his brother committed this crime? >> i would never get into privileged conversations. but this is what i can tell you -- that someone else committed the crime is inherent in the case. it goes hand in hand with the fact that at the time martha moxley was killed, michael skakel was at a location far from her home. >> fair enough. but it isn't just somebody else that allegedly committed the crime. the defense legal papers suggest that it was the brother who should have had the finger pointed at him. there was an error in michael skakel's case that they didn't do that sufficiently. it sounds like michael skakel is pointing the finger at his brother

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he's innocent, we're happy that he's finally getting justice. >> reporter: a blow to moxley's mother. >> i'm so convinced he's guilty, no question about it. >> martha didn't deserve this. >> reporter: hopes family can endure another trial. released in 2013 after a decade in prison. cornell bernard, abc7 news. >>> and we have news about us. abc7 sports anchor and reporter mike shumann announced resignation. admitted to taking a jacket belonging to golden state warriors on assignment in san antonio. released the statement, it is with sadness that i announce we have decided to part ways. i regret any embarrassment i caused the station. my recent actions do not represent the high standard of conduct expected at kgo or the integrity with which i have conducted my career. nothing but great memories working here and covering four world series, three super bowls, three nba championship runs, a stanley cup. i want to wish the station and all my colleagues the best as they move forward. it has been my pleasure to work with you. i also want to thank all the great viewers who supported me through

he's innocent, we're happy that he's finally getting justice. >> reporter: a blow to moxley's mother.> i'm so convinced he's guilty, no question about it. >> martha didn't deserve this. >> reporter: hopes family can endure another trial. released in 2013 after a decade in prison. cornell bernard, abc7 news. >>> and we have news about us. abc7 sports anchor and reporter mike shumann announced resignation. admitted to taking a jacket belonging to golden state warriors on assignment in san antonio. released the statement, it is with sadness that i announce we have decided to part ways. i regret any embarrassment i caused the station. my recent actions do not represent the high standard of conduct expected at kgo or the integrity with which i have conducted my career. nothing but great memories working here and covering four world series, three super bowls, three nba championship runs, a stanley cup. i want to wish the station and all my colleagues the best as they move forward. it has been my pleasure to work with you. i also want to thank all the great viewers who supported me through t

moxley was beaten to death with a golf club in the wealthy greenwich neighborhood where she and skakel both lived. they were both 15 at the time. skakel, the nephew of ethel kennedy, was convicted for the crime 27 years later. but today the court ruled his lawyer was so ineffective his right to a fair trial was violated. skakel has been free on appeal since 2014. today the court ordered a new trial, but it's unclear whether prosecutors will pursue that. >>> an urgent manhunt is you should way tonight in chicago where an atf agent was ambushed and shot early this morning in the city's gun violence plagued south side. that agent, hospitalized this evening, and the suspect is on the loose. nbc's blake mccoy has details. >> reporter: tonight, a massive manhunt in chicago after an atf officer was shot in the face in an ambush. >> urgency, we have shots fired on 45th and hermitage. >> reporter: the federal agent rushes to the hospital in critical condition, now said to be improving. >> you think we're going to take this lying down? this is the fourth law enforcement in a year that's been sho

. >> reporter: 14 years ago, martha moxley, a popular teenager in greenwich, connecticut, was found beatendeath by someone wielding a golf club. her then-15-year-old neighbor, michael skakel, was found guilty of murder. today, a court vacated the conviction because of allegdely shoddy work by mickey sherman, skakel's lawyer. skakel and his supporters claim sherman ignored a possible witness in the trial 15 years ago, a witness who would have confirmed his alibi. bakel's cousin bobby kennedy, jr., has stood by him through the years. >> he's innocent. i know he's innocent. >> reporter: skakel was originally convicted in 2002 and served ten years of a life n,ntence before a lower court vacated the sentence in 2013. just 16 months ago, the connecticut supreme court had reinstated the conviction, but in a rare move, reversed itself today. dorothy moxley, the victim's 85-year-old mother, told "the hartford courant" she was shocked by the decision. she remembered her daughter in 2008 in an interview with cbs "48 hours." .> martha was one of these children that was just so easy. she just was so ea

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dorothy moxley told the hartford current she was shocked by the decision. >> martha was one of theseldren that was just so easy. she just was so easy to raise, to do things with. >> and it's now up to state prosecutors to decide whether to retry skakel, who is free in the meantime. in a scathing dissent, one judge accused her colleagues of giving skakel special treatment because of his wealth, his race, and his connections to the kennedy family. for "cbs this morning: saturday," tony dokoupil, new york. >> this is a story that's captivated the country for so many years. when you see mrs. moxley there talking about her daughter martha, it is a moment to pause and think about the family's loss, and then when you have his cousin saying he thinks he's innocent, it's hard to know. >> two families for 40 years have been dealing with this. >> martha moxley's father died a couple years after she was killed. he sort of -- a lot of people think he died because of the stress of trying to find out who killed his daughter. >> never supposed to bury a child. >> hobby lobby is one of the biggest ar

fellow teacher jesika moxley was in awe of the amount of energy miss jones poured into her classroom. >> heather loved being a kindergarten teacher. from the moment that they stepped foot into the door, to the moment that they left, they were dancing, they were singing, they were playing. >> reporter: by april 2013, it was all coming together for heather jones. on a saturday night, she hit that rumba room dance floor to try out some moves she'd picked up at the gym and to show the world what she'd become. >> it was just so much fun. we were probably there for about three hours just dancing. >> reporter: three days later on tuesday morning, teacher jesika moxley headed to school, expecting to see her energetic co-worker heather already there. >> our school day didn't start until 8:00 or 8:30 that year, and she was here every morning by 6:30, 6:45. >> reporter: heather usually couldn't wait for the school day to begin. so jesika was surprised by what she didn't see that morning. >> i pulled into the parking lot, and i didn't see her car. i'm, like, "oh, what is going on?" >> reporter: t

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he is ordering a new trial in connection with the 1975 killing of young martha moxley in their wealthy neighborhood. ed henry, chief national correspondent joins us now with the back story tonight. >> it is really the case that will not end, reinstating the kennedy cousin's murder conviction in that 1975 case. the ruling that a new trial has to be held for kennedy cousin michael, he had been convicted of bludgeoning her to death with a golf club 40 years ago in connecticut when they were both teenagers. skakel is the nephew of robert f. kennedy. robert f. kennedy jr. taken this up as a cause, the police messed up the investigation period in 2002 he was handed a prison term of 20-life and was released on bail after a lower court decision in 2013 to over turn that conviction and then in 2016 reinstated when the same state supreme court ruled that there had to be a new trial period what is new is that that same high court by a 4-3 three decisn has overturned the previous ruling and now rules that his trial attorney did not show the court evidence of a possible alibi. justice richard palme

he was found guilty in 2002 of bludgeoning martha moxley with a golf club in greenwich, connecticut in 1975. >>> in los angeles, protests over the federal government's decision to end special immigration rights allowing hondurans to stay in the u.s. ever since a hurricane, hurricane mitch devastated that country in 1998. about 57,000 hondurans have until january 2020 to either find a way to gain legal status in this country or leave the u.s. the u.s. also has recently taken special immigration rights away from five other countries. >>> and in texas, former president george h.w. bush has been released from a houston hospital where he had spent the last 13 days for treatment of a blood infection. he is expected to travel to the bush family compound in maine. kennebunkport, maine, later this month. he was hospitalized the day after his wife barbara bush's funeral. >>> and espn is reporting that the milwaukee bucks pro basketball team plan to interview a woman, san antonio spurs assistant coach becky hammon for their head coaching job. it would be the first time that a female has been inte

cousin michael skakel and ordered a new trial in the 1975 killing of his childhood neighbor martha moxley. the court says skakel's trial lawyer did not give him an adequate defense. >>> the mother of one of the victims killed in the waffle house shooting in nashville last month accepted her daughter's diploma this weekend at belmont university. 21-year-old deebony grove's mother received a standing ovation as she walked away the stage to accept her daughter's degree in of all things social work. >>> seniors at marjorie douglas high school celebrated their prom while honoring their classmates who were killed in the parkland school shooting earlier this year. >>> now let's take you down to the new york stock exchange to the opening bell where markets opened just a minute ago and they're up just a bit. cnbc's dom chu joins me now. what's driving the markets this morning? >> we've got optimism about what's happening with tech stocks. that on the heels of a big day for apple on friday. apple is very important. it's the biggest company in america. the biggest publicly traded company in the worl

in 2002 he was convicted of killing martha moxley back in 1975.ed in 2013 after lower courts ruled his lawyer did not give him a fair defense. the supreme court's decision underturning their own ruling from 2016 which reinstated conviction. prosecutors have the option to retry him. still not clear if they will. talk about a nightmare vacation. look at this. gallons of water gushing from the walls, flooding a carnival cruise ship. the company blaming it on a break in the fire suppression system flooding 60 rooms on the ninth deck. ed: looks like the titanic. abby: scooping um water with buckets. impacting the guests. they will receive a full refund and option to be flown home. seven day cruise departed on sunday still out at sea. president trump putting together all star team to help america get into shape. naming bill belichick to the council on sports fitness and nutrition. also friends of the show dr. oz and football great herschel walker. others include rivera. misty train nor and actor lowe ferrigno encouraging kids to take up sports. by the w