Framed Quotes

“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“After my father’s death, I watched my mother and Uncle Teddy—my father’s last living brother—plea to the judge to allow his alleged killer, Sirhan Sirhan, to escape the death penalty.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“Garr, who, in addition to his role as evidence manager, was a key witness for the prosecution, never revealed his conflicts to Michael’s lawyers or to the Court. His bosses in the police and prosecutor’s office apparently knew of his covert deal and urged him to keep it quiet.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“When police abuse and racial killings are in the news, from Baltimore to Ferguson, Missouri, to Columbia Junction, Fox summons Fuhrman in his tailored suit and “in your face” attitude to explain why police brutality is justified.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“Fuhrman is a liar, a racist, and a bully. It’s a great irony that he disgraced himself for his pivotal role in letting Simpson escape justice and then rehabilitated himself by helping to put an innocent man in prison for a murder he didn’t commit.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“The Simpson verdict was, in part, largely an expression by the majority-black jury of its revulsion for Fuhrman, who embodied the notorious institutional culture of violent racism within the LAPD.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“The Liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. —George Bernard Shaw”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“After Dunne’s book tour, Garr led several members of the Moxley investigation team on a visit to Dunne’s home in Hadlyme, Connecticut, bearing gifts: a State Police plaque, a T-shirt, and a mug. They begged him to stop criticizing their work. Dunne agreed to a truce.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“Dunne’s M.O. never varied. He began by evoking his daughter’s death in a soft-touch approach to the victim’s family. Once his nose was under the tent, Dunne launched into reckless accusations; damning denunciation of the accused; anonymous tips; facts bent to fit his theories; and his reliable old chestnut: accusing power and wealth of evading justice.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“The inferno that devoured Michael is no anomaly. It feeds every day on the economically disadvantaged and minorities”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“The media lemming stampede was evidence of a broken system that sacrificed Michael on the altar of ratings and revenue, and compounded the tragedy of Martha Moxley’s death with the conviction of an innocent man.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin and HLN’s Nancy Grace and Beth Karas,”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“With 401 reporters certified to cover the case, only one, Leslie Stahl, bothered to look beneath the flimsy veneer at the myriad facts undermining the prosecutor’s frail parable.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“Despite Michael’s ironclad alibi, and the State’s obvious evidentiary defects, a Connecticut court, nevertheless, convicted him of Martha’s murder in 2002 after a six-week jury trial.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“Michael Skakel settles his 2013 slander lawsuit against HLN host Nancy Grace”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law applied by an independent judiciary immune to the gusting winds of popular sentiment. —Caroline Kennedy”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“WE ALL have a duty to see that our efforts to heal from grief do not compound the tragedy and punish the innocent.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“Revenge and resentments, my mother said, are corrosive. Indulging them is like swallowing poison and hoping someone else will die. By opposing the death penalty for Sirhan, we diluted those poisonous passions.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“The deaths of Crawford and Byrne, Tommy’s ostracism, and Michael’s imprisonment were all part of the spreading ripples of misery from Martha’s tragic murder”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“while our grief would never get smaller, our job was to build ourselves bigger around it; vengeance would only diminish us and widen the reverberations of misery.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“each one of us bears ultimate responsibility for what we do with our grief.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“Michael being Michael was very consoling to me,” Sherman said. “I was a wreck. Still am a wreck. And Michael was saying, ‘Don’t worry. It’s going to be okay.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“As Jay Leno suggested, referring to the Skakel trial, many people would prefer to be found guilty of murder than be suspected of masturbating in a tree: “I would rather confess to murder. Wouldn’t you?” Leno quipped.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“Adopting Fuhrman’s theory, the”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“Fuhrman is pushing to get himself called as a witness before the grand jury”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“Benedict, was obviously monitoring the press closely and paying more attention to Fuhrman than to the detective in charge of the case.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“He told anybody who’d listen that if a grand jury were to be called, the world had one guy to thank. “I’m going to take credit for it, along with the Moxley family,” he told USA Today. He said he’d rescued an investigation that had been thoroughly bungled, most notably by Garr.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“He is absolutely sick and beside himself because he believes an innocent man is in the can. But Jack is a cop through and through, and he will not make any public statement that might embarrass his law-enforcement colleagues.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“Levitt told me that Fuhrman “based his conclusions about Michael on intuition rather than fact.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

“In the 1980s, Fuhrman attempted to earn disability pay from the LAPD by claiming to be mentally unbalanced and homicidal. “I have this urge to kill people, which upsets me,” he told a police psychiatrist. Fuhrman admitted that he got into altercations nearly every day of his life and confessed that he needed to be “violent to exist.”
― Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit