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For Tankleff, celebration tempered by sad realities

Thanks to a Starbucks employee with unusually large frosting penmanship, Martin Tankleff celebrated his imminent freedom from prosecution Monday with a chocolate cake that proclaimed, "Congra Marty."

But neither that, nor New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's opinion that there remains "some evidence" that Tankleff killed his parents, was enough to spoil a celebration two decades...

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