Nation IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : Final Arguments in Goetz Shooting Trial
Bernhard Goetz deserves a punch in the mouth for some of the things he says, but he’s no “cool, calculating racist,” a lawyer for the subway gunman argued. In his summation in Goetz’s $50-million civil trial in New York, Darnay Hoffman savaged his client as well as the plaintiff, Darrell Cabey, one of four young black men Goetz shot on a subway train in 1984. Cabey was left paralyzed and brain-damaged. Hoffman admitted that Goetz “damned” himself by saying that Cabey’s mother should have had an abortion and by his derogatory references to Latinos and blacks.
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