People v. Portelli

The proof adduced upon the trial is more than sufficient to support the jury’s verdict that the defendants are guilty of felony murder and, since we find no errors of law, we would have no occasion to write were it not for the testimony of police brutality which the record before us contains.

On May 18, 1962 two police officers, Detectives Luke Fallon and John Finnegan, were shot and killed in Brooklyn during the course of a holdup when they sought to apprehend the robbers. Upon the trial, held in January of 1.963, one of the principal witnesses against the defendant Portelli was a small-time…