University Daily Kansan, January 18, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
Page 12
Lawyer says gunman embodies fine citizen
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Bernard Goetz, the confessed New York city subway gunman, is not a vigilante but an example of "the finest we can produce in society," his lawyer told Congress yesterday.
Joseph Kelner, a prominent New York lawyer who is representing Goetz at no charge, said his client "acted reasonably . . . he acted in a way that was justifiable . . . he was confronted and surrounded by four people, which is tantamount to a life-threatening situation."
Kelner, testifying at a Senate Judiciary Committee crime hearing, said, "the brave are those who survive crime in America."
Goetz, a 37-year-old engineer, admitted to police that he shot four teenagers who asked him for $5 last summer. The suspects were one of the ones she remains in a coma.
Goetz, who is charged with attempted murder and illegal possession of a weapon, will plead not guilty to the charges, Kelner said. But the lawyer declined to say whether he would claim he acted in self-defense.
KELNER SAID GOETZ was not a "vigilante," someone who takes the law into his own hands or "gets a gun and goes out hunting like a rabbit" (and sometimes also gets the "personification, the symbol of the finest we can produce in society."
Kelner said Goetz, who has won praise from crime-weary Americans from Maine to Hawaii, began carrying a gun after he was mugged and shot in New York in 1881, which suffered a debilitating injury to his leg.
Sen. Alphonse M. D'Amato, R-N.Y., told the hearing, "The Bernhard Goetz case has demonstrated in the clearest possible terms the public's rage over a criminal network that targets most sacred duty — to protect the people from punks and career criminals."
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