Peter T. Farrell

Peter T. Farrell (November 12, 1900 – November 9, 1992) was an American judge from Queens, New York City, who served as a judge on Queens County Court and the New York Supreme Court, where he primarily handled criminal cases.

[1] Farrell was born in the Manhattan section of New York City and grew up in the neighborhood of Corona in Queens.

[1] In 1943, Farrell was elected to serve on the Queens County Court and spent most of his judicial career on criminal cases.

He was the senior judge in Queens on the Supreme Court, Criminal Term, until he stepped down in 1976.

[1] Farrell presided over the 1952 trial of bank robber Willie Sutton in which Sutton had been charged with the 1950 heist of $63,942 from a branch of the Manufacturers Trust Company in Sunnyside, Queens, part of more than $2 million he was estimated to have stolen from various banks over the course of his career in crime.