Attorney General Andrew Cuomo was appointed as a special prosecutor in the case. Cuomo's office can decide whether to retry Tankleff or drop the charges and go after other suspects.
Tankleff was 19 when he was convicted of killing his parents, Arlene and Seymour Tankleff, in their Belle Terre home. An appeals court has ruled that new evidence pointing to other suspects would probably have swayed a jury to acquit him.
