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This week was marked by developments which highlight the tangled relations between race, crime and punishment. More than a decade has passed since New York City's most infamous subway assailant, Bernard Goetz, opened fire on four black teenagers who asked him for money. In 1987, three years after the shooting, a jury acquitted Goetz of the most serious criminal charges levelled against him. He was found guilty of only minor weapons charges, and many city residents viewed him as a heroic vigilante who had stood up to "predators," as the four youths were described by Goetz's lawyer, Barry...
This week, the civil trial against Goetz ended much differently--one of his victims won a $43 million settlement. Apparently, this jury did believe that Goetz acted improperly when he stood over one of the wounded youth and callously remarked: "You don't look so bad. Here's another one," before shooting him again. That second shot paralyzed the teenager and reduced his mental capacity to that of an eight-year-old child...
...BRONX, N.Y.: A civil jury ordered famed 80's subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz to pay one of his victims $43 million for pain, suffering and punitive damages. Darrell Cabey, left paralyzed and brain damaged after being shot by Goetz in a Manhattan subway 12 years ago, will probably never see most of that money, as Goetz is practically penniless after paying for both his civil and criminal defense. Cabey was shot several times after he and three friends approached Goetz in the subway and asked him for five dollars. The men say they were simply panhandling, but Goetz testified that...
...HEIRESS This Broadway revival of Ruth and Augustus Goetz's 1947 melodrama, itself adapted from Henry James' 1880 novel Washington Square, speaks with the confident simplicity of all-around excellence: skillful direction by Gerald Gutierrez, inventive sets and lighting, and an icy, crystalline performance by Cherry Jones as the triumphantly loveless spinster...
...women's team, its performance was a two-place improvement on last year's seventh-place finish. The individual highlight was a seventh place finish overall by sophomore Karen Goetz, who completed the 5000 meter circuit...