Title: A crime of self-defense
First published: 1988
Description: Legal expert George Fletcher uses the celebrated trial of New York's "Subway Vigilante", Bernhard Goetz, as a springboard to probe the profound relationship between this defensive action, the public's understanding of it, and the court's interpretation of it according to the law.
Subjects: Trials (Assault and battery), Self-defense (Law), Trials, litigation, Goetz, Bernhard Hugo, 1947-  -- Trials, litigation, etc., New York Times reviewed, Trials, united states
Places: United States, New York (State), New York, New York (N.Y.)
People: Bernhard Hugo Goetz (1947-)