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Impartial Jury Of His Peers
660 wordsThis is very long, I just didn't wrap the words The Judicial System The justice system in our country today, is one of the best in the world, but it is not without problems. The 12-person Jury system has good intent but has definite faults and should be rethought and possibly revamped. The system was designed so that when charged with a crime, a person could be fairly tried by an impartial jury of his peers. Unfortunately, jurors can never be 100% impartial, they are always biased in some way or...
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Juror Three
761 words12 Angry Men Essay Juror#3 In a crowded jury room in downtown New York, opinions collide as discussion about the innocence of a young boy is decided. The dark and foreboding storm clouds that hang over the heads of the jurors are beginning to lift as time progresses and new facts are presented. One juror is not happy about this stay of execution and is holding fast his opinion of guilty. Juror three, the president of his business, refuses to alter his vote or opinion in any way. Still haunted by...
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Juror 10's Prejudice And Impatience
540 wordsJuror 10 There are two main characteristics of the 10th juror that influence his verdict. The first is that juror 10 is prejudiced against the defendant (most likely he is racist, but we can not be 100% sure). The second is that he is uncaring and impatient. The first time we get a glimpse of juror 10's prejudice is on page 7 when he says "It's the element. I'm telling you they let those kids run wild up there. Well, maybe it serves them right". He believes that anyone coming from a poor neighbo...
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Result Of Davis's Methods Of Persuasion
636 wordsPlot: "Twelve Angry Men" is an interesting and exciting jury-room confrontation in which an 'open and shut case' becomes strenuous as twelve strangers scuffle for answers. The trial involves a nineteen-year-old boy, who is suspect of killing his father in a late-night altercation with an extraordinary knife. His fate now lies in the hands of 12 jurors, each with his own determination to solve the case and reveal the truth. As the session takes its course, evidence becomes scrutinised, tempers ri...
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Narrow Minds Of The Other Eleven Jurors
544 wordsMay 20, 1999 Twelve Angry Men In the film Twelve Angry Men, I believe justice was served. Without juror number eight, however, the outcome most assuredly would have been different. The subtle force and confidence that he displayed allowed the narrow minds of the other eleven jurors to be broadened. From the beginning of the film, juror number eight displayed his interest in the case, not his personal engagements. His opening part by the window foreshadowed his deep concern for the defendant, an ...
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Number Eight And Juror Number Three
751 wordsTwelve Angry Men, is a play written by Reginald Rose. The play is about the process of individuals and a court case, which is determining the fate of a teenager. It presents the themes of justice, independence and ignorance. Rose emphasises these three themes through the characters and the dialogue. Justice is the principle of moral rightness or equity. This is shown through juror number eight who isn't sure whether or not the boy is actually innocent or guilty, but he persists to ask questions ...
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Guilty And The Juror
751 wordsThe jury in a trial is selected to examine certain facts and determine truth based only upon the evidence presented to them in court. It is assumed that the jurors will judge fairly and without any personal bias. In spite of this assumption people will be people and in some cases, logic and emotion will collide. An excellent example that shows precisely what I'm talking about is in the movie Twelve Angry Men. Twelve men who initially are strangers to each other have the fate of a young boy resti...
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Juror 3 And His Son
753 wordsIn all criminal cases presented in the courts of the United States, a defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt. The law requires the jury to release the defendant unless it is fully convinced of the defendant's guilt. Many times it may be difficult for a jury to come to such a significant conclusion. This is clearly evident in the movie 12 Angry Men. At first, each juror is convinced of his verdict except one. Yet of those who are convinced that the boy on trial...
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Film Twelve Angry Men
376 wordsThe film twelve angry men is a quaint film which takes us into a jury chamber during the deliberation faze. Juror # 8 (Harry Fonda) is the only juror out of the twelve who believes that the case they are deciding is not open and shut. His argument was that it was not the defendants that had to prove innocence but the prosecution which had to prove guilt which he did not feel was done. The film sets immediately out to show distinct characters and sets the setting, a small stuffy room in an especi...
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Juror Three
353 words12 Angry Men: Influence of Surroundings A persons surroundings can influence him. In '12 Angry Men' by Reginald Rose a young mans life is held by twelve men with contra sing views. Eight a caring man, who wishes to talk about why the other jurors think that the boy is guilty, clashes with Three, a sadistic man who would pull the's with the boys life. Accroding to Rose, several elements can a jury's verdict, such as the emotional make-up of individual jurors. Many elements can change a jurors dec...
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9 Black Boys
758 wordsTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Twelve Angry men by Reginald Rose and The Scottsboro Trial are all about unfair trials containing discrimination towards different people and people being prejudice. The peoples action towards the defendants affected them for the rest of their life. Many of the people that came into the court brought in their own social problems and that influenced the verdict. To Kill The Mockingbird was about a black guy named Tom Robinson who was accused of raping a yo...
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Juror Fives Verdict
561 wordsTwelve Angry Men Imagine yourself in a small and hot jury room. You fell out of place and want to get out of this as fast as possible. This is juror fives point of view from Twelve Angry Men. He is a naive and a very frightened young man. In the next few paragraphs you will learn. where he grew up, what his internal conflict is (he was patronized all his life) and how he overcomes it. You will also learn how his internal conflict represents his verdict. Juror five is a man who grew up in the slu...
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Juror 4 And Juror 5
2,299 wordsIn Twelve Angry Men, the audience gets to view the two sides of the legal system. We view the institution that would want to be objective, and the human element, the jury, where each individual brings his own personal subjective point of view. This movie exposes the different types of people called to judge ones peers and the complexity of human nature and what different circumstances influence a juror's thought process. This review will focus on Juror #4, the wealthy stock broker, and Juror #5,...
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5th And 11th Jurors
1,386 wordsTwelve Angry Men Que 1) " Truth is a matter of perception, which is created by experience" The 5th, 10th and 11th jurors are all uniquely different characters. However despite this individuality they do have something in common, this being the fact that they base their decisions on past encounters and or experiences. They all use this either against or in favor of the defendant. The 5th juror's experience of living, working and growing up in a slum area has given him good idea of the difficultie...
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Juror 4
1,159 wordsHaving the power to decide whether a man lives or not, is a great responsibility that you cannot just decide on irrelevant material, but put a lot of thought process into the matter at hand... This responsibility is taken by twelve men in a trial for murder in the movie Twelve Angry Men. These men are assigned to look at facts and hear witnesses to the murder and then decide if the man is guilty or not. If found guilty, they will punish him with the electric chair. Many of these men, called juro...
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Court Rules Against Jury Selection
3,932 wordsIn order to understand how important jury selection is, one must first understand the process of the selection. On the day of the trial, there may be as many as one hundred and fifty jurors called for examination and selection. Out of that one hundred and fifty, twelve will be selected as the jurors to try the case, with two alternates. The hundred and fifty called, however, represent only a small percentage of the number of persons eligible for jury service. The one hundred and fifty, or smalle...
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Vote Many Of The Juror's Views
1,305 words12 Angry Men During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a single juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict voted by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices. Thus, it is up to the courage of juror number eight to convince the other member of the committee to determine a fair and correct outcome. Many of the skills we have learned in Business Communications were used to change the vote of the other jurors. Each of the jurors is portrayed to have different ...
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Most Important Juror 8
569 words12 Angry Men: Juror #8 is the Most Important Juror Juror #8 was the most important juror in the play Twelve Angry Men for a number of reasons. The first reason is that when all the other jurors voted guilty without even thinking about their decisions, Juror #8 suggested that they talk about it before jumping to conclusions. Even when some of the other jurors got mad and started yelling at him, he stayed calm and tried to work things out in a mature fashion. The second reason is that he convinced...
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Jurors Eight And Ten
356 wordsAs Thomas A. Kempis says, ? Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly. ' ? In other words, how someone feels inside reflects his or her thoughts and opinions. This is true in the play Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose. In Twelve Angry Men, a boy is accused of murdering his father, and it is the job of the twelve members of the jury to decide his fate. Jurors eight and ten have strong feelings towards the boy that affect their votes. Juror eight is a calm, thoughtful man who fights to...
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Juror 9 Points Out The Woman's Eyesight
2,052 wordsIdentifying Arguments An elderly witness says he heard the accused boy say, "I'm going to kill you' to his father, but several of the jurors believe this elder witness could not have heard the boy. An elder juror states that the man might have said this "to be important. ' The elder juror states: It was just that I looked at him for a very long time. The seam of his jacket was split just under his shoulder, or did you notice that. To come to court like that. He was a very old man in a torn jacke...
