Jurors In 12 Angry Men

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In 12 Angry Men, a young adult of eighteen years old was accused of killing his own father. Twelve jurors had to decide whether the young adult was innocent or guilty. The punishment was going to be the death penalty if he were guilty. It took three hours for the twelve jurors to come to the conclusion. At first, it was eleven to one, who thought that the boy was at fault, but at the end, the twelve men concluded that the young boy was innocent. They came to this conclusion by going over facts really carefully. At some point, jurors have to process every fact/evidence well before coming to a justified conclusion.
In the film 12 Angry Men, the twelve jurors are named by the jury numbers in which they were given. To continue, one of the twelve
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As juror eight also mentions that everyone who testifies to the killing seems so positive to what they were saying, but nothing is that positive. Suppose the witness were wrong people make mistake “We see juries unable to reach a verdict even with the most overwhelming evidence” (Rothwax 473). As juror number eight tells everyone how come they believe in the women’s story, but not the young boy story. However, juror number four stated that “somebody saw the kid stabbing what else do we need” (12 Angry Men). As Rothwax said that jurors “Jumped to conclusions early in the case and then tended to stick vehemently with those conclusions” (Rothwax 478). Most of the jumped to a conclusion because they were lazy to talk about it. To add on, it was also said that in reality, the women witness did not notices anything else, she only notice the shadows. As it is stated by Alder that “Specifically the presence of a weapon at the crime scene markedly reduces the witness’s later ability to say what really happened. The witness tends to focus attention on the weapon and become inattentive to surrounding details” (Adler 487). For this reason, all of them believe that it would be impossible for her to notice the shooting since she was across the apartments and a train was in between on that when it