This image released by his attorney shows a 2009 painting of a lobster made by Michael Skakel while incarcerated at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, Conn. Skakel is serving 20 years to life for beating Martha Moxley to death with a golf club in 1975 in Greenwich, Conn., when they were 15. Skakel will get his first parole hearing Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 at the prison to determine whether he should be released. (AP Photo/Michael Skakel)
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