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Bernhard Hugo Goetz was born November 7, 1947, in the Kew Gardens, Queens neighborhood to German immigrants. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ] His father was Lutheran and his mother was Jewish before converting to Lutheranism.
Barry I. Slotnick (born 1939) is a New York City-based defense attorney.Slotnick is well known for defending infamous Mafia crime boss, John Gotti [1] and New York City subway shooter, Bernhard Goetz. [2]
People v. Goetz, 68 N.Y.2d 96 (N.Y. 1986), was a court case chiefly concerning subjective and objective standards of reasonableness in using deadly force for self-defense; the New York Court of Appeals (the highest court in the state) held that a hybrid objective-subjective standard was mandated by New York law.
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C. Vernon Mason is a former lawyer and civil rights advocate from Tucker, Arkansas.Best known for his involvement in several high-profile New York City cases in the 1980s, including the Bernhard Goetz, Howard Beach, and Tawana Brawley incidents, Mason has not practiced law since his 1995 disbarment.
The original subway vigilante, Bernie Goetz, thinks the prosecution of Daniel Penny for the chokehold death of Jordan Neely aboard a train was “BS.” Goetz, 77, spoke to WABC’s Frank Morano ...
Bernhard Goetz shot four African-American men on a New York City Subway 2 train in Manhattan on December 22, 1984, when they approached him and tried to rob him. At his trial Goetz was acquitted of all charges except for carrying an unlicensed firearm. Sharpton led several marches protesting what he saw as the weak prosecution of the case.
After serving on the Bernie Goetz jury, he participated in talk shows, most notably Larry King and Phil Donahue's. He also wrote a book based on his experience as a juror and explains how the jury came to its decision. Goetz cites Lesly's book on Goetz' eccentric website, [2] as the source of accurate information about the incident. Lesly ...