Salvatore Perrone Case Continues to Make News — Perrone wants MTA Station Video to prove his alibi — Like everything else Perrone has said, Judge Alan Marrus shrugged it off with openly expressed disdain

The judge, the prosecutor and the press continue to show extreme bias against this unlikely elderly Italian-American from Bensonhurst and Staten Island, who has been accused of being a serial killer of three Brooklyn shopkeepers, after NYPD detectives had been looking for a completely different kind of suspect

The case against Salvatore Perrone continues on its bizarre path toward an extremely possible travesty of justice. By the time the Brooklyn DA and the New York State Courts are finished with the case against Mr. Perrone, “The People of the State of New York” will not know, or even be able to find out, whether justice was done in their name, regardless of the final result. Even the families of the murdered victims are being used as bit players by the prosecutors and the press — being stoked to express outrage and disgust about a man trying to defend himself, whose guilt or innocence of the charged crimes is far from clear.

Criminal Court Judge Alan Marrus continues to preside over this mess like he is a Ring Master for Ringling Brothers – Barnum and Bailey Circus instead of an Acting Supreme Court Justice. On Friday April 12th, when Salvatore Perrone read his prepared statement to the court about his need for the MTA surveillance video from the Parkside Avenue Subway Station to prove his alibi based on the timing of the alleged third murder, the judge felt free to openly express his bias against the defendant and his purported alibi. The ADA was equally dismissive when she tossed-off the fact that she had 127 video surveillance tapes, when the court told her to try to provide the defendant with what he was looking for. It is also quite telling that Perrone felt forced to give his own prepared statement, with possible negative legal consequences, while the court appointed attorney, whom Perrone wanted  replaced by the court earlier in proceedings, stood by like a statue.

Based upon the report of the Friday court proceedings that appeared in the New York Daily News, it went down like this: “...Salvatore Perrone insisted Friday that subway security footage would exonerate him from the third murder he is accused of committing. ***  ‘I need the video,’ he pleaded during a Brooklyn Supreme Court hearing. ‘The office of the district attorney or Charlie Hynes either directly or indirectly have suppressed my alibi.’ ***  The 64-year-old apparel salesman, charged with the murders of three Brooklyn shopkeepers, argued the tape shows him enter the Parkside Ave. station at about 6:05 p.m. on Nov. 16, 2011 and never coming back out. Rahmatollah Vahidipour, 78, was killed around 7:15 p.m. *** ‘I can't be at two places at once,’ Perrone went on. ‘For sure the MTA does not lose videos. They don't get lost or stolen’.” ( See “Accused ‘Son of Sal’ serial killer claims MTA tapes will exonerate him” by Orin Yaniv, 4/12/13, NY Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/accused-son-sal-serial-killer-claims-mta-tapes-exonerate-article-1.1314993#ixzz2QMnlzdKz]; [oyaniv@nydailynews.com]).

Somewhat cynically, Judge Marrus answered, "I don't quite have the same confidence in the MTA that you do, Mr. Perrone." But then he said, "But I will say this: if they have it, you will get it."  The judge also felt compelled to warn the defendant about admitting his presence near the scene. However, neither Judge Marrus nor Perrone's attorney seemed to intervene to have the defense counsel make a formal application for the video material purportedly needed by the defendant, by more artfully presenting a similar description of the potential alibi potential contained in the MTA video instead of letting the defendant read his own prepared statement in open court.

As to the DA and/or the DA's Office, there was no apparent response to the defendant Perrone’s charge that the DA or somebody in the DA’s office either directly or indirectly suppressed the evidence of the defendant’s alibi for the November 16th killing. For her part in responding to the defendant’s demand for the MTA video made in open court, ADA Melissa Carvajal said she had 127 DVDs containing video surveillance relating to the case. The report in the Daily News doesn’t indicate whether she acknowledged the existence of the specific MTA video sought by the defendant, much less whether she would actually provide it in a timely fashion.

Although the hearing on Friday April 12th did deal with substantive matters, clearly relevant to the defendant’s defense, the reporter for the News, chose to portray Salvatore Perrone as being deranged and disruptive. Here is how the article by Orin Yaniv began, “In a bizarre courtroom rant, accused serial killer "Son of Sal" Salvatore Perrone insisted Friday that subway security footage would exonerate him from the third murder he is accused of committing.” Nothing in the Daily News report indicated that the defendant was reading from a written statement.

This is yet another example of the majority of the press buying into the narrative of NYPD Commissioner Kelly and Brooklyn DA Hynes that Salvatore Perrone is some kind of homicidal maniac who intended to kill again if he was not confronted and put into protracted "voluntary custody"  in the way that he was in November.