A crime of self-defense

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

People: Bernhard Hugo Goetz (1947-)

Places: United States,  New York (State),  New York,  New York (N.Y.)