Elliot Williams
speaker
443 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 26 Jun
Elliot Williams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm going to use deadly force.
And that tracks with how we would assume other people in society would behave.
That compares my behavior to everyone else's.
And those are two different ways that courts around the country had grappled with how to use the term.
Yeah.
We have no evidence to suggest that a robbery was imminent, but the mere fact that one might have sincerely thought that a mugging was coming would have allowed him to kill them under the law.
Like if he'd succeeded and actually consummated the act of homicide, that would have been protected under New York law.
And which is just sort of it's one of the realities of the American conception of self-defense that we don't ever really stop to think about, which might lead to innocent people getting shot preemptively.
And we as a society sort of make peace with that.
It's both my knowledge of the system and cynicism as a former prosecutor.
And I would say, honestly, the jury saw themselves in Bernard Goetz.
Another jury could easily have convicted him of attempted murder, starting with the fact that he says on the record to police, knowingly and voluntarily, I intended to murder them.
Mm hmm.
In an attempted murder trial, that's a confession.
And so this idea that he was scared and out of his mind means that we should discredit the words that come out of his mouth.
To me, that's just ludicrous.
That's nonsense.
But they saw themselves in him.
Every single serious source who have looked at this has debunked the sharpened screwdrivers theory.
And again, that to me extends not just to whether they were sharpened, but the use of the term armed when referring to the teenagers.
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