What’s going on in Suffolk County, New York makes me wonder about how justice has been meted out in other parts of the country over the years. It makes me re-think those times a convict looked me in the eyes and said, “I didn’t do it.” As a cynical reporter I’ve often thought to myself, “Yeah, right.”
Well, odds are they can’t all be lying.
For nearly two decades a young man named Martin Tankleff has been sitting in prison, convicted of murdering his parents, murders I don’t believe he committed.
He always said he was innocent. At the tender age of 17 he stood on the courthouse steps looked right into the television cameras and said, “I can’t wait for the whole truth to come out.”
Maybe now it finally can come out. [click to continue...]
