June 7, 2002
By David Sween
nsnews special guest
After Michael Skakel was convicted for the murder of Martha Moxley, Michael Skakel's younger brother called the entire process a witchhunt, and under the circumstances, he is absolutely right because the anatomy of every witchhunt is the same.
First and foremost, a witchhunt is about cultivating false witnesses, and that is clearly a well developed tactic where the prosecution of Michael Skakel was concerned. Gregory Coleman became a key witness for the Prosecution after telling a one-judge grand jury that Skakel admitted his involvement in the slaying. Skakel, Coleman claimed, told him he had tried to make sexual advances toward Moxley, but the girl would not respond "unless I drove her skull in." According to Coleman, Skakel said he was confident he would get away with the slaying, saying, "I'm gonna get away with murder. I'm a Kennedy."
If Gregory Coleman's testimony was not scripted, we are too stupid to take seriously.
Indeed, during a probable cause hearing, Gregory Coleman admitted that he had a drug problem and that he was high on heroin when he testified before the grand jury. No doubt, Gregory Coleman had more integrity than the people who were scripting his testimony. At the same time, the people who scripted Gregory Coleman's testimony were obviously distressed, when Gregory Coleman said, "I was on drugs when I came before the grand jury." The people who scripted Coleman's testimony made sure that Coleman was well supplied with drugs and/or the money to purchase them, and nobody cared about the fact that a petty criminal like Gregory Coleman, was essentially granted a license to break the law. The people who scripted Gregory Coleman's testimony were in fact using the admitted lawbreaker to pervert justice, and that is all that concerned them. The welfare of Gregory Coleman and the fact that he was high on drugs, did not bother the Prosecution.
Coleman's testimony grew in importance to the case after another key witness in the case was discredited. John Higgins, another Elan student, also said Skakel confessed to the slaying, but he admitted at a probable cause hearing that he lied to investigators and asked about a $50,000 reward in the case. Two other former students testified that they never heard Skakel confess. Needless to say, if Skakel's confessions were as dramatic as Gregory Coleman had claimed, everybody would have heard of them.
Gregory Coleman's sudden death was very convenient because the source of his very specific and definite lies was permanently buried, and every witchhunt never fails to bury the truth. Needless to say, the Prosecutor treated Gregory Coleman's transcripted lies like the gospel, and the fact that Mickey Sherman could not cross-examine a piece of paper, did not bother them at all. But in our humble opinion, the fact that Gregory Coleman was a witness in the first place, is absolutely not excusable unless the Prosecution demonstrated the clear intent to keep this drug addict alive. In particular, why did the Prosecution grant Gregory Coleman a license to take illegl drugs?
It took investigators 24 years to gather enough evidence to arrest Michael Skakel, and if they did not plant words into Gregory Coleman's mouth to make their job easier, they should have kept him alive long enough to allow the truth to surface. Clearly, there is a stark contrast between the dramatic testimony that Gregory Coleman provided and witnesses who deny this transparent, 'Kennedy-bashing' confession, and if this contradiction does not contain the motivation to bury the truth, the sudden death of Gregory Coleman, is too convenient. How about a grand jury investigation, to explore the circumstances surrounding the sudden death of Gregory Coleman?
Nobody ever gave a damn about Gregory Coleman. Every single media in the entire world used his soundbite "I'm going to get away with murder because I am a Kennedy" to justify the conviction of Michael Skakel, and that is the solitary currency value that defined Gregory Coleman. Needless to say, it was also his death sentence, because as long as Gregory Coleman was alive, it was only a matter of time before Mickey Sherman demonstrated the value of fake currency.
And don't forget the royal immunity that was granted to homicidal maniac, Ken Littleton, for the sake of convicting Skakel Kennedy. What's wrong with this picture?


