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...saving might be less than $27 because I live in New York City, where alternatives to driving are available and increasingly attractive. The subway system, for instance, has mostly new trains as well as many renovated stations, and I think of it as much safer now that Bernhard Goetz, the wonk vigilante, is moving to Boston...
...could not have been easy for Bernhard Goetz, left--dubbed the "subway gunman" by New York City tabloids--to hear himself referred to in a courtroom as "a nerd, a geek, a peckerwood and a cracker." The author of these epithets: Goetz's own lawyer, Darnay Hoffman, right, pursuing the tactic of insulting one's client before the opposition can. It didn't work: a jury found Goetz liable to the tune of $43 million in the civil lawsuit growing out of his gunning down of four menacing panhandlers in 1984. Other examples of "Don't say that about...
...YORK: Bernhard Goetz filed bankruptcy on Monday to prevent authorities from auctioning off his pet chinchilla and his guinea pig Squeaky. With assets of just over $2,000, Goetz will be hard pressed to pay the $43 million a jury awarded last week to Darrell Cabey, a victim of Goetz's subway shooting incident. The legal action will keep authorities from Goetz's assets until at least mid-June, when a bankruptcy trustee will reviews his debts with creditors. "It prevents a sheriff or marshal and New York State from coming in and just simply ransacking Bernie's house, having...
...Goetz, who has admitted to using angel dust (PCP), suggested, in court, that his victim's mother should have had an abortion, and has never expressed any regret for the incident...
...civil trial was largely symbolic, because Goetz will hardly be able to pay even a small fraction of the settlement. The civil proceedings were begun by the late anti-establishment legal hero William Kunstler, and concluded by Ronald Kuby, the pony-tailed bearer of Kunstler's mantle. The second Goetz verdict may signal that juries have become more immune to race-baiting or less likely to see black youth as potential muggers...