New evidence may prove Kennedy assassin innocent

LAWYERS representing convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan argue in newly filed court documents that a bullet was switched in evidence at his trial and new forensic details show he is innocent of the 1968 killing of US senator Robert F Kennedy.

In the latest of many appeals filed on Sirhan’s behalf, the lawyers are seeking to overturn his conviction.

They repeated a previous assertion and presented reports from experts who said Sirhan was programmed through hypnosis to fire shots as a diversion for the real killer.