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

Author/Contributor(s):	Fletcher, George P
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	06/15/1990
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.