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

ISBN-13: 9780226253343 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 272 str.

George P. Fletcher

Opis

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.