The Nation - News from Aug. 27, 1987

The sentencing of subway gunman Bernhard H. Goetz, convicted of a weapons charge but found not guilty of shooting four alleged muggers, has been postponed until Oct. 7, the judge announced. New York Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Crane said he was postponing the Sept. 4 sentencing to give prosecution and defense lawyers more time to prepare memoranda and to give the Probation Department more time to finish its report on Goetz. Goetz, 39, was convicted in June on a single count of third-degree illegal possession of a weapon, the handgun he used to shoot four youths on a Manhattan subway train Dec. 22, 1984.