Legal Opinion
People v. Goetz
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 8, 1986PublishedCited by 350 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Chief Judge Wachtler.
A Grand Jury has indicted defendant on attempted murder, assault, and other charges for having shot and wounded four youths on a New York City subway train after one or two of the youths approached him and asked for $5. The lower courts, concluding that the prosecutor’s charge to the Grand Jury on the defense of justification was erroneous, have dismissed the attempted murder, assault and weapons possession charges. We now reverse and reinstate all counts of the indictment.
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