People v. Lindsay

On December 27, 1972 two men—one armed with a knife and the other with a gun—entered a Bronx bar. They took money from the cash register and from the three occupants: the bartender, Patrick Kennedy, and two patrons, Anthony Vitale and Peter Vandenberg. During the course of the robbery Vitale was shot and killed. In February, 1973 the defendant and Theodore Haywood were arrested and charged with murder, robbery and possession of a weapon.

The defendant and Haywood were jointly tried before a jury in December of 1975. At the trial Kennedy and Vandenberg identified the defendants as the two men…