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FILE - In a Friday, Jan. 18, 2008 file photo, Martin Tankleff waits at the Suffolk County court for the hearing to begin in Riverhead, NY. Tankleff spent 17 years in prison for the 1988 murders of his parents in Long Island before his conviction was thrown out. He is expected to be sworn in as a lawyer Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Daniel Goodrich/Newsday via AP, Pool, File)

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FILE- In this Dec. 27, 2007 file photo, Martin Tankleff, who has been imprisoned 17 years for the murder of his parents, smiles as he talks to reporters after being freed on bail in Riverhead, N.Y. Tankleff is due to receive his law degree from Touro Law School on Sunday, May 25, 2014. He plans to work on exonerating wrongly convicted prisoners. (AP Photo/Ed Betz, File)

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