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

Name: Crime of Self-Defense Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial
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ISBN: 9780226253343

ISBN-10: 0226253341

ISBN-13: 9780226253343

Edition: 1990

Authors: George P. Fletcher

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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 the young men were about to rob him.

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface


A Shooting in the Subway


Passion and Reason in Self-Defense


Tolerant Reason


The Significance of Suffering


People Matter


Trying the Truth


What the Jury Saw and Heard


What the Jury Did Not Know


Perfecting the Law


Arguing Toward a Verdict


Mixed Messages


Notes


Index