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

by George P. Fletcher (Author)

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.