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Legal experts: Cuomo correct on Tankleff decision

State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo correctly recommended that Martin Tankleff not be retried for his parents' murder, legal experts said Monday.

But some questioned why Cuomo and his chief trial counsel, Benjamin Rosenberg, decided to note there was some evidence that Tankleff committed the murders in their statement recommending no retrial.

"I think that the attorney general indicated...

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