Alaina Kelley

That's an Alfred plea.

This is them being like, we just don't think putting resources to retrying you will get us the conviction, but we still think you did it.

But like, and I don't even know.

I don't even know if it's, I think it's just like, we don't think we just can't prove it.

We're not going to put the resources forward because we don't think we could get a conviction again.

So you will be released.

That's brutal.

So although, so he was a free man once again.

Okay.

Although it is possible that Skagel could be charged again and taken to trial.

That is a thing.

In the absence of any new compelling evidence of his guilt, it seems pretty unlikely because nothing has come out since then that points to him.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Regardless of the prosecutor's decision, Dorothy Skakel remained convinced that they got it right the first time.

While she was disappointed with the outcome, she told reporters she was, quote, satisfied with the efforts of police and prosecutors.

All right.

At least she had that.

A very impressive outlook.

Yeah, she did.