A Long Island man who spent 17 years in prison for murdering his parents before he was exonerated in 2008 has settled a wrongful-imprisonment suiꦡt against the state for $3.375 million.
Martin 👍Tankleff was convicted of brutally killing his adoptive parents, Seymour and Arlene Tankleff, in their tony Belle Terre home in 1988 when he was only 17, based on a confession he later said was co♔erced.
Tankleff maintained that crooked Suffolk County cops managed to extract the admission by ⛄falsely telling him that his father was still conscious and bla🍒med him for the attack.
He was hit with a🎃 50-year sentence in 1990 but an appellate court tossed his conviction in 2007 after his legal team punched 🗹gaping holes in the case against him.
His lawyers pinned the slayꦡings on his fat🌞her’s estranged former business partner, Jerry Steuerman, who has denied any role.
Tankleff, now 42 and an aspiring lawyer, still has ✤pending federal civil cases against the Suffolk County cops that could fetch him a far larger settlement.