![]() 27, 1986, when she tried to end their nine-month relationship. Porto, of Bayville, was charged with second-degree murder after he confessed in writing and on videotape to strangling Miss Holland on Sept. He said officers detected no remorse in Porto and in fact said, ″Porto smirked during the entire interview with probation officers.″ In asking for the maximum sentence, prosectutor Kenneth Littman said, ″The probation report paints a picture of a self-centered, arrogant and spoiled young man who acts impulsively and aggressively toward young women.″ ![]() Porto showed no outward sign of emotion when the sentence was announced. He later called the sentence excessive and said he would seek to have the verdict and sentence overturned. Porto’s attorney, Barry Slotnick, who represented subway gunman Bernhard Goetz, had asked the judge to give his client probation. said, ″The punishment does not fit the crime.″ In sentencing Porto to one and one-third to four years in prison, Nassau County Court Judge John Thorp Jr. Joseph Porto, 19, had been found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Kathleen Holland, 17, whom he said he strangled in a sex act gone awry. (AP) _ In a case that echoed the ″rough sex″ defense of the ″preppie killing″ trial, a teen-ager who strangled his girlfriend was sentenced today to up to four years in prison, the most he could have received.
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