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A crime of self-defense

by George P. Fletcher

Trials (Assault and battery)Self-defense (Law)Trials, litigationGoetz, Bernhard Hugo, 1947- -- Trials, litigation, etc.New York Times reviewedTrials, united states

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.

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