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A Crime of Self-Defense : Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial
A Crime of SelfDefense Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial
Author: George P. Fletcher
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.
ISBN-13: 9780226253343
ISBN-10: 0226253341
Publication Date: 6/15/1990
Pages: 272
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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