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Cop, half-sister, juror say '90 verdict was correct

Martin Tankleff said this week that mistakes and bad judgment by others -- from the detective who tricked him into confessing to killing his parents to the prosecutors who brought the case -- led to his incarceration for a crime he did not commit.

But his half-sister, Shari Mistretta of Port Jefferson Station, a juror, Victor Muglia of Deland, Fla., and K. James McCready, the former homicide...

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