A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial by George P. Fletcher

A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial

George P. Fletcher

272 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

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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...

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