Supreme Court of United States to Confer Friday on Skakel Case.

Members of the nation’s highest court will meet in conference Friday, January 4th, to decide whether they will hear an appeal filed by the State of Connecticut in the Michael Skakel murder case. The appeal arises out of the issue of an act of ineffective representation of a defendant by his lawyer.

There are inconsistent standards in the nation’s appellate jurisdictions on whether a court should judge ineffectiveness of representation by a single act or overall representation. Eleven states joined Connecticut in its appeal of a Connecticut Supreme Court decision overturning Michael Skakel’s conviction for murdering Martha Moxley in Greenwich in 1975 based on a single act of ineffective counsel.