DA agrees on Tankleff release until new trial
BY ALFONSO A. CASTILLO AND MICHAEL AMON
michael.amon@newsday.com
December 22, 2007
Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota said Saturday that Martin Tankleff should not spend another day in jail while awaiting a new trial on charges that he murdered his parents.
But he said he "respectfully disagreed" with the appellate justices who overturned Tankleff's conviction and said they "don't give me any alternatives" but to retry Tankleff, 36.
Spota's words came as prosecutors and Tankleff's attorneys said they have agreed on a bail package that would allow the Belle Terre man to be freed this week.
Despite his office's steadfast opposition to Tankleff's efforts to be exonerated, Spota also said Saturday that he has never maintained that Tankleff killed his parents.
"I never said that he did or did not," Spota said.
"What I have consistently said is that I do not believe that the people that the Tankleff team have said killed these people did indeed kill them.
"Tankleff's defense team has contended that a disgruntled business partner of Tankleff's father hired a hit man to kill the elder Tankleff.
A county court judge will consider bail this week, said Tankleff's attorney, Bruce Barket of Garden City. Barket would not reveal the amount of the agreed-upon bail.
"These things have a way of unraveling, but there's no reason why Marty won't be out of jail by Friday," Barket said
STAY TUNED...WILL MARTY BE RELEASED THIS FRIDAY, DEC 28, 2007?
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/ny-lispot1223,0,5320009.story
MARTY TANKLEFF'S OFFICAL WEBSITE...
http://www.martytankleff.org/Gui/Content.aspx?Page=Home2
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