Sirhan Sirhan Attorneys Claim New Evidence Proves Client Innocent of Kennedy Killing (VIDEO)

The lawyers representing Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of killing Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, have filed an appeal to have the conviction overturned claiming that evidence was tampered with during the trial in 1968.

 Sirhan Sirhan Attorneys Say New Evidence Prove Client Innocent

In filed court documents it is claimed that the bullet used during the trial was switched beforehand. The lawyers are claiming that the bullet that killed Kennedy was replaced to fit the gun Sirhan used. They are adamant that forensic evidence can prove them correct.

Following on from previous appeals they have also reasserted the claim that the assassin was programmed under hypnosis to carry out a diversion for the real killer.

Sirhan Sirhan is a Jordanian immigrant who was convicted of the murder 43 years ago. Lawyers representing Sirhan now claim that new acoustic tests from a recording the night of the murder show that there were 13 shots fired that night from multiple guns. Sirhan only had a small handgun.

"They put fabricated evidence into court before the judge and jury" said Pepper to the Associated Press. "We are satisfied that for the first time in 43 years of this case we think we have the evidence to set this conviction aside."