Martin Tankleff Won't Be Tried Again

D.A. Thomas Spota only made his decision because he felt he could not win. I guess we should accept this fact and move on. After all, Martin Tankleff will not have to face his raft again:

The Suffolk County district attorney said on Wednesday that he would not retry Martin H. Tankleff for the 1988 murders of his parents and that he would ask Gov. Eliot Spitzer to appoint a special prosecutor to reinvestigate the case.

The district attorney, Thomas J. Spota, said he would seek to dismiss all charges against Mr. Tankleff, who was 17 at the time of the murders and is now 36, “because it is no longer possible to reasonably assert that the case against Tankleff would be successful.”

So much was taken from Martin Tankleff. Lets' hope he receive some sort of compensation for this terrible miscarriage of justice. His story made me weep and I hope everyone will try to help him move on with his life.