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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Bernhard Goetz Update
Message-ID: <599@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 18:03:28 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  5 18:03:28 1985
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In article <29200235@uiucdcs> renner@uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA writes:
> 
> >  A New York appeals court refused to dismiss the Bernhard Goetz case
> >  yesterday.  Goetz is free on $5000 bail.  In the words of a New York
> >  radio station, "Goetz is charged with attempted murder of four
> >  teenagers who asked him for money on a subway."
> 
> According to a recent article in the Chicago Tribute, one of those four
> teenagers has since been arrested for rape and armed robbery.  The victim
> identified him in a lineup.  He's learning fast:  this time he had a gun
> instead of a screwdriver.
> 
> This probably won't change Goetz's legal problems.  It may not change your
> opinion of what Goetz did.  But I'll bet that somewhere in New York there's 
> a woman who wishes that Bernard Goetz was a better shot.
> 
> Scott Renner

I suppose that by that standard, we should all hope you are shot dead before
you might commit a crime in the future.

It's easy to wish away due process of law for people you dislike or fear.
But the cost is too high, as numberless tyrants and revolutions have
shown.
-- 

Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh