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Bernhard H. Goetz’s lawyer said that Goetz...

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Bernhard H. Goetz’s lawyer said that Goetz was “absolutely justified” in shooting four youths who he said had demanded $5 in a Manhattan subway last Dec. 22. “There will never be a plea of guilty in this case,” attorney Joseph Kelner, Goetz’s trial counsel, told a news conference. Kelner said Goetz, who is charged with four counts of attempted murder, would not testify before a grand jury investigating the shootings because Dist. Atty. Robert Morgenthau had refused to let defense lawyers see Goetz’s videotaped statement to police.

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