A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial
Book Details
Author(s)
George P. Fletcher
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
ISBN / ASIN
0226253341
ISBN-13
9780226253343
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#1,178,513
Category
Law
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United States 🇺🇸
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Description
The popular press dubbed him "the subway vigilante": Bernhard Goetz, who on December 22, 1984, shot four black youths on a New York subway train when one of them asked for five dollars. Goetz claimed to have fired in self-defense, out of fear that the young men were about to rob him.
