Court TV loses bid to televise Skakel sentencing
By The Associated Press
07.22.02
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NORWALK, Conn. — A judge denied a request by Court TV to televise the sentencing of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, convicted last month of fatally beating his neighbor Martha Moxley in 1975.
Superior Court Judge John F. Kavanewsky Jr. denied the request last week, citing a state guideline that no televising of sentencing hearings is permitted except in trials that were previously televised.
Kavanewsky had rejected a request by Court TV to televise Skakel's trial.
State court rules allow still and video cameras in the courtroom, but only with the consent of the trial judge. All media requests to televise or photograph court proceedings in Connecticut have been rejected since the O.J. Simpson 1995 murder trial in California.
Skakel, 41, a nephew of Ethel Kennedy and the late Sen. Robert Kennedy, was convicted last month of beating Moxley to death with a golf club when they were 15-year-old neighbors in Greenwich. He faces 10 years to life when he is sentenced on Aug. 9.
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