Marty Tankleff - EYEWITNESS.INNOCENCEPROJECT.ORG — Transcript
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- 0:01My name is Martin Tankliffe and I was
- 0:03wrongfully incarcerated and served 6,338
- 0:06days in New York State
- 0:09prisons. The first thing I noticed were
- 0:11lights on in my house. The house wasn't
- 0:13locked up. And I end up walking through
- 0:16my house and discovered my father who
- 0:19was covered in blood.
- 0:30And I remember saying to them, so I'll
- 0:32take a polygraph. Like I didn't do
- 0:34anything. I'll take a polygraph. But
- 0:36that's not what they wanted to hear.
- 0:39That day they had the ability to
- 0:41electronically record the interrogation.
- 0:44They had the ability to get a
- 0:45synographer and they chose not to. So
- 0:47for 17 and 12 years it was this is what
- 0:50I say happened. This is what they said
- 0:52to happen. How much would it have cost
- 0:54to record the interrogation even back in
- 0:561988 when they say it's too
- 0:59costly? What's more costly? Recording an
- 1:02interview interrogation or letting
- 1:03somebody innocent suffer in prison for
- 1:0510, 15, 20 years.
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