Martin Tankleff is handcuffed after being sentenced in 1990 to
two consecutive terms
of 25 years to life for the murder of his parents.
(Newsday / Dick Kraus)
Martin Tankleff sobs as he hears a jury pronounce him guilty for
the murder of his parents.
(Newsday / Dick Kraus)
Martin Tankleff lays his head on the defense table in despair
after hearing a jury pronounce him guilty.
(Newsday / Dick Kraus)
Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas J. Spota announces that
he will ask the judge
assigned to the Martin Tankleff case to dismiss the indictments.
(Ken Spencer, Newsday / January 2, 2008)
Martin Tankleff shares a hug with Lonnie Soury after they heard
that Suffolk County District Attorney
Thomas Spota would not pursue any charges, acquitting Tankleff of
the murders of his parents.
(Photo by Howard Schnapp, Freelance / January 2, 2008)
Martin Tankleff is all smiles after he heard that Suffolk County
District Attorney
Thomas Spota would not pursue any charges.
(Photo by Howard Schnapp, Freelance / January 2, 2008)
Martin Tankleff gives a wave as he is all smiles as he leaves his
attorney Bruce Barket's office in Garden City.
(Photo by Howard Schnapp, Freelance / January 2, 2008)
MaryAnn McClure, Martin Tankleff's aunt, becomes emotional as she
talks about the
release of her nephew, rear, at a press conference at Riverhead
Criminal Court.
(Newsday / James Carbone / December 27, 2007)
Martin Tankleff arrives at his uncles home after he was released
on bail free from seventeen
years in prison on Thursday, December 27, 2007 in Westbury, New
York.
(Freelance: Howard Schnapp / December 27, 2007)
Martin Tankleff arrives at his uncles home after he was released
on bail free from seventeen
years in prison on Thursday, December 27, 2007 in Westbury, New
York.
(Freelance: Howard Schnapp / December 27, 2007)
Martin Tankleff at Riverhead Criminal Court with his lawyer Bruce
Barket,
shortly after his release on $1 million dollar bail.
(Newsday / James Carbone / December 27, 2007)
Martin Tankleff is free. The 36-year-old former Belle Terre man
walked out of Suffolk County Court and into
the open air at about 11 a.m. after his cousins, Ronald and Carol
Falbee of Westbury, posted $1 million in bail
-- and after dozens of supporters broke with court etiquette and
erupted into applause in the packed courtroom.
(Newsday / James Carbone / December 27, 2007)
Flanked by family, supporters, and his lawyers, Barry Pollack,
far left, and Bruce Barket, Martin Tankleff
addresses media at a press conference in hallway of Riverhead
Criminal Court after his release on bail.
Martin Tankleff walked out of Suffolk County Court and into the open
air at about 11 a.m. after his cousins,
Ronald and Carol Falbee of Westbury, posted $1 million in bail.
(Newsday / James Carbone / December 27, 2007)
Martin Tankleff's private investor Jay Sal Peter. Martin Tankleff
walked out of Suffolk County Court and into
the open air at about 11 a.m. after his cousins, Ronald and Carol
Falbee of Westbury, posted $1 million in bail.
(Newsday / James Carbone / December 27, 2007)
Marty Tankleff, looking shocked as he approaches podium for press
conference
at Riverhead Criminal Court after his release on $1 million dollar bail.
(Newsday / James Carbone / December 27, 2007)
Marty Tankleff arrives back on Long Island.
(Photo by James Carbone / December 26, 2007)
The front page of Newsday when Tankleff was found guilty.
(Newsday)
Martin Tankleff reacts to the guilty verdict.
(Newsday)