Innocent Man Finally Released

Martin H. Tankleff was finally released, from prison, after spending most of his life incarcerated for a crime he did not commit.

Now 36, Mr. Tankleff was 17 when his mother and father, Arlene and Seymour, were fatally bludgeoned and slashed in their waterfront home in Belle Terre on Long Island. He was arrested that same day and convicted in 1990, and had been in prison ever since.

Mr. Tankleff thanked “all my friends and supporters, in Suffolk County and across the nation and literally around the world, for your interest, and for making my fight your fight.”

Let's hope the prosecutor now spends his time concentrating on the guilty instead of destroying the lives and dreams of the innocent.