People v. Goetz

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1986-07-08

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OPINION OF THE COURT Chief Judge Wachtler. A Grand Jury has indicted defendant on attempted murder, assault, and other charges for having shot and wounded four youths on a New York City subway train after one or two of the youths approached him and asked for $5. The lower courts, concluding that the prosecutor’s charge to the Grand Jury on the defense of justification was erroneous, have dismissed the attemp…

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