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George P. Fletcher

A Crime of Self-Defense

Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial

272 pages,     © 1988

Paper $18.00

ISBN: 9780226253343   Published June 1990
Not for sale in the British Commonwealth except Canada

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.
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