#084 Jason Flom with Marty Tankleff - RE-RELEASE
Wrongful Conviction
Lava for Good Podcasts
4.4 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This episode originally aired on November 7, 2016.
Marty Tankleff had just turned 17 when he was arrested for murdering his parents, Seymour and Arlene Tankleff in September 1988. Based on an unsigned “confession" extracted from him following many long hours of interrogation by notorious Suffolk County detective K. James McCready, Marty was convicted and sentenced to 50 years to life in prison. After serving 17 years, Marty's conviction was vacated by the New York State Appellate Division, Second Department, in December of 2007. On July 22, 2008, a judge signed off on a motion by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to dismiss all charges against Marty. Marty recently passed the bar exam and is pursuing a career as an attorney, advocating criminal justice reform and wrongful convictions.
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| 0:00.0 | Of all the hundreds of exonaries that I've had the privilege to meet, none have touched |
| 0:08.5 | my heart anymore profoundly than Marty Tankliff, and his case is profiled, by the way, in |
| 0:14.2 | one of the most incredible books I've ever read. |
| 0:17.2 | It's called A Criminal Injustice, A True Crime, A False Confession, and The Fight To Free |
| 0:23.8 | Marty Tankliff. |
| 0:24.8 | It's by Richard Firstman and Jay Salpieter. |
| 0:27.2 | Reads like a John Grisham novel, but it's all true. |
| 0:30.6 | Marty is an incredible human. |
| 0:34.5 | Since his episode, originally aired on November 7, 2016, a number of amazing developments |
| 0:41.5 | have happened in Marty's life. He received in 2018 a $10 million settlement, |
| 0:46.6 | which by the way, you could put another zero on it, it still wouldn't make up for what he went |
| 0:49.9 | through. Marty passed the bar exam, and he's pursuing a career as an attorney, advocating criminal |
| 0:55.8 | justice reform, and fighting to write wrongful convictions. And if that wasn't enough for you, |
| 1:02.5 | Marty is now a professor at Georgetown University, leading a class with Professor Mark Howard |
| 1:09.2 | that is helping to resolve wrongful conviction cases. They already had their first win |
| 1:15.1 | in the case of Valentino Dixon, who's been on my show. Marty Tankliff, a profiling courage, |
| 1:21.6 | an unbelievable story that you have to hear. So please listen to my interview with Marty Tankliff. |
| 1:31.7 | What do a flirtatious gambling double agent in World War Two, |
| 1:35.9 | an opera singer who burned down an honorary to kidnap her lover, |
| 1:39.5 | and a pirate queen who walked free with all of her spoils, have in common. |
| 1:45.8 | They're all real women who were left out of your history books. |
| 1:49.0 | You can hear these stories and more on the Womanica podcast. Check it out on the I Heart Radio app, |
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