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...that's the case, Andrew Goldstein is one fine actor...
...their rematch, the district attorneys will again attempt to demonstrate that Goldstein resents his mother and harbors violent feelings toward women. According to them, Goldstein shoved Webdale because he was angry at another blond woman who had just rebuffed his attempts to engage her in conversation, and is using mental illness as an excuse, playacting at being...
...matter of proving that he did it: No one disagrees that on January 3, 1999, Goldstein pushed 32-year-old Kendra Webdale to her death in front of a subway car. Regardless of the outcome, Andrew Goldstein will finally be sent someplace where he can't hurt anyone. But the fact that he begged to be hospitalized for two years before the crime, and was turned away by doctors who knew he was dangerously mentally ill, points to a system that's even crazier than...
...Goldstein was hospitalized 13 times in 1997 and 1998 alone and committed more than a dozen assaults, many on hospital staff, in that two-year span. In a devastating expose in the New York Times Magazine last May, Michael Winerip laid out a bleak chronicle of desperation and neglect: In addition to hearing voices, Goldstein variously asserted that someone had removed his brain; that he was six or eight inches tall; that his penis had grown from eating contaminated food; that a man named Larry was stealing his feces and eating them with a knife and fork...
...Indeed, if Goldstein really was interested in acting out his violent impulses, he worked hard to sabotage those ambitions. Each one of his 13 commitments was voluntary; several times he requested long-term hospitalization; each time the system failed him. Facing a brutal state mandate to contain costs, the institutions in the New York City area from which Goldstein sought help could do nothing but put him on waiting lists that meant months of inaction. Every hospital Goldstein was discharged from knew he was dangerous. The tragedy is that in repeatedly seeking help, Andrew Goldstein behaved more responsibly than...