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Conviction on Confession

By Steven Rodriguez

Martin Tankleff was just seventeen years old when he was convicted of the brutal murder of his parents in their Long Island, New York home. While no motive beyond adolescent angst was ever given, Marty was convicted based on a confession made to Long Island police after hours of interrogation and a malicious ruse where police told him that his father had awoken from a coma and named him as the attacker. He never signed the confession and recanted, but it was enough for a jury to convict him. He spent the next seventeen years in jail trying to prove his innocence. In December, a panel of the appellate court overturned his conviction and, at the first of the year, the Suffolk County District Attorney announced that he would not start a new trial and would formally drop the indictment against Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on January 14, 2008 (boomark / email).