from Marty Tankleff On December 27, 2007, I was released from prison after being wrongfully imprisoned for 6,338 days.

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from Marty Tankleff

Dear All:

On December 27, 2007, I was released from prison after being wrongfully imprisoned for 6,338 days. This is my first Thanksgiving since I've been free and it's amazing. Many of you here have helped me along the way and I have no doubt that many will continue to help me and my family fight for justice. For that I want to thank you. I especially want to thank: Stephen Braga, Barry Pollack, Jennifer O'Connor, Bruce Barket, Lonnie Soury, Rick Friedman, Meg Griffen, Dawn Murphy-Johnson, Shelia Kadaguther, Roberto Gonzalez, Jay Salpeter and so many others who made this day possible. Words cannot express my thanks and gratitude to the thousands of people who fought for justice in my case.

Just this past week, another innocent man walked out of prison after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned. Let's not forget our duty to fight for justice. As the innocent languish in prison, the guilty continue to commit crimes. I am thankful for every day and everything about life. However, my family and I will not stop until true justice is achieved.Martin Tankleff
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Martin ("Marty") Tankleff (born August 29, 1971) is a Long Island, New York, resident who was convicted of murdering his wealthy parents, Seymour and Arlene Tankleff, on September 7, 1988. After 17 years of imprisonment, his conviction was vacated and he was released from prison.
[edit]Trial and Acquittal

Tankleff was convicted of killing his parents, Seymour and Arlene Tankleff, in 1990 and sentenced to two consecutive terms of 25 years to life in prison. A 2003 appeal, however, presented new evidence from 20 witnesses,[1] and an appellate court ultimately overturned his conviction after Tankleff served 17 years in prison. Tankleff was represented by attorney Barry Pollack.[2]
Before the Suffolk County District Attorney dropped the charges, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer appointed[3] New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo as special prosecutor in the case. From his staff, Cuomo selected Chief Trial Counsel, Benjamin Rosenberg, and veteran homicide prosecutor, Thomas Schellhammer, to reinvestigate the case.[4] On June 16, 2008, Rosenberg announced the results of the Attorney General's investigation. "The issue in this case is not whether there is evidence," he said to Justice Doyle, "but whether there is sufficient evidence." Rosenburg then announced: "The people move to dismiss the indictment." In the same motion, prosecutors announced they would not proceed against suspects identified by Tankleff's defense team, revealing that, "on balance, the defense theory does not appear to be supported by clear evidence."
On July 22, 2008, Justice Doyle concurred with the Attorney General's motion to dismiss. All charges facing Tankleff were dropped; he would not face retrial.[5]
The incident and subsequent trials were the subject of "A Criminal Injustice: A True Crime, a False Confession, and the Fight to Free Marty Tankleff," published by Ballantine Books in 2008.
Tankleff is now a student at Touro Law Center in Central Islip, NY.The Long Island man who spent 17 hellish years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned last year has joined the fight to free an Arkansas jailbird whose case has exploded into a cause célébre.
Martin Tankleff is a consultant to a high-powered team of supporters, including Johnny Depp, battling to free Arkansas death-row inmate Damien Echols.
Echols, now 35, and two other men, then teens, were convicted of slaughtering three young boys in West Memphis, Ark., in 1993.
Supporters argue that the convictions were based on a coerced confession.
Tankleff, 38, convicted of murdering his parents in 1994 based on a dubious confession, has reached out to Echols' wife and has worked to gather legal advocates and lawyers who worked on his own case to help the Arkansas man.
"I conveyed to her the importance of having a good legal team and good advocacy," said Tankleff

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/tankleff_aiding_ark_killer_wsGEt...

My best,

Marty Tankleff