Andrew Goldstein was a 37 year old man who lived in New York. On one tragic morning, Mr. Goldstein went out of his house and to the Subway. At the subway waited a 32 year old journalist named Kendra Webdale. Goldstein who was a diagnosed schizophrenic, pushed Kendra into a moving subway and she was killed on impact. According to the New York Times, there was no specific reason in which Goldstein had pushed her but simply he was off of his medication, and it is described as what Mr. Webdale, Kendra’s father, to be a tragic accident and could’ve happened to anyone. (McFadden, 1999) Although it was an accident, many people didn’t see it that way. They began to name him the Subway Pusher. New York residents believed that Goldstein should be convicted and sentenced for murder. Goldstein’s first trial was declared a mistrial. It was the second trial in which he was convicted of manslaughter. Although he was convicted, he was granted a third trial because it was believed he didn’t have a fair second trial because of a secondhand witness. When the third trial came along, Goldstein took the plea and pleaded guilty to his crime. According to Beth Ugner, who spoke for him, all he had to say for himself was that he was extremely sorry and he couldn’t…show more content… Schizophrenia can also be disorganized speech in behavior. In my opinion, after reading what Eddie Magnus wrote on dateline NBC about how his friends described Goldstein’s behavior that week, I do believe he does fit into this description of schizophrenia. Magnus wrote that Goldstein’s friends said he would pace throughout the night along the house and even through the cemeteries in Queens, New York. They also said that Goldstein would blank out in the middle of sentences along with asking his neighbors to eat their leftovers. Magnus also discusses how Goldstein was