In the early 1980’s in a small Podunk town of Ada, Oklahoma, a young woman named Debra Sue Carter, was savagely raped and killed in her own apartment after work at the local cocktail bar. Quickly, the town drunk was arrested in relation to the rape and murder with nothing more than a single “eyewitness” that placed him at the woman’s job that night. Many regulars to the bar said that “they would know if Ron Williamson was at the Coach Light and he wasn’t there.” They, in fact, named another man: Glenn Gore, the prosecution's main witness. Gore was also the man that Debbie’s friend said that she was afraid of and he was supposedly at Debbie’s apartment the night of the murder, according to the friend who received a phone call that night from Debbie. Gore was also seen being pushed away by the victim at the victim’s car the same night as the murder.…
On a casual Sunday night a family came home to be bludgeoned to death by an axe murderer. On June 10th 1912,a monday morning, 6 children and 2 adults were found in their house with their heads bashed to death. In other words, someone inside the house must have been in the house judging that the doors were all locked and the axe belonged to Josiah. Whoever killed the Moore Family must have had a grudge on them and been mad enough to murder them. The Moore family was murdered by William Blackie Mansfield who was hired by Frank F. Jones because Josiah was thought to have an affair with Frank's daughter and they once worked together until Josiah quit.…
movie 12 Angry Men. The movie shows how one individual shaped and ultimately changed the direction of a group decision. The story goes that 12 jurors must reach a...…
1. Each Act takes happens in the same place. The entire play takes place in the jury room of a New York City court of law in 1957 during a very hot summer afternoon. It is a large, dull, minimalistic room with three windows in the brick wall which the skyline of New York City can be seen. There is also a wash room and lavatory off the jury room. There is a large, scarred table in the centre with twelve chairs around it. There are pencils pads and an ashtray on the table. There is also a water cooler in the room with plastic cups. The dullness of the room may signify and provide a mood for the act and is evident in the interactions between the jurors. The Twelve jurors are all seemingly awkward and uneasy towards each other once they enter the room.…
He is a small business owner, which is running messages service. He proudly says that he started his business from scratch and now employs thirty-four workers. He makes his decision based on the fact of his bad relationship with his son. He didn’t speak with him since two years. Although it may not be through the facts of the case, but he is convinced that the defendant is guilty. Actually, he changes his mind once he realizes that he is reflecting his feelings about his own son onto the defendant. At the end of the movie, he loses control of his emotions, and he reveals that his relationship with his own son has biased his…
* Questioned and arrested boy at 3AM when he returned home from the movies, in his apartment next to his father’s dead body…
Biased testimony towards the defendant resulted in a prejudice jury. Very frequently, statements like ‘We heard the facts, didn’t we?’ or ‘Pay attention to the facts’ are expressed in the jury room. The 4th Juror cited that the murder weapon was a knife so unique that ‘the storekeeper who sold it to him identified the knife in court and said it was the only one of its kind he ever had in stock.’ The 8th Juror argues that ‘It’s possible that the boy lost the knife and that someone else stabbed his father with a similar knife.’ None of the Juror’s believes this possibility as they have already established their prejudices against the accused. The 10th Juror says ‘Let’s talk facts. These people are born to lie… They think different. They act different.’ These are not ‘facts’ but prejudice opinions made by the 10th Juror about the socio-economic status of the boy. It can assumed that the ‘facts’ presented in this case can be viewed as biased opinions and reports that impairs the true facts.…
Explanation: this is inductive case. In this the 9th juror explains the old man who lived in the same house as the boy. The first part of the phrase indicates the specific defining of the old man old man and afterwards it goes to the general point.…
For fans of courtroom dramas and crime television, these court case movies all revolve around the courtroom. Unlike the orderly process of a real courtroom, the stories are filled with drama, intrigue and corruption. Getting to the truth is seldom as straightforward as it appears within these hit movies.…
12 Angry Men illustrates the dangers of a justice system that relies on twelve individuals reaching a life-or-death decision. Discuss. 12 Angry Men, written by Reginald Rose, follows 12 members of a jury that must decide whether an inner-city teen is guilty of premeditated murder. If the jurors and the court rule the teen guilty, it would mean the death of the accused.…
In an attempt to defend his position as deeming the boy “guilty of murder” he states that “Anybody [who] says... ‘I’m gonna kill you”... the way he said it…they mean it”. This piece of evidence is faulty because the third Juror is testifying the evidence as if he was present at the murder scene which he was not. The Fifth Juror also presents unrealistic evidence to prove that the boy would only have murdered his father by handling the knife a certain way. He claims “anyone who’s ever handled a switch knife’d never handle it any other way”. However, the 5th Juror cannot be so sure that the boy did not use the knife a different way when he murdered his father because he did not witness the crime. Another example of unrealistic evidence is provided by Juror Ten as he mentions numerous times “these people are born to lie and murder”. One cannot simply assume something so definite about anyone, let alone an entire group of people. This clearly demonstrates the fact that there are many instances of unrealistic evidence and the 3rd Juror is amongst those who provided such…
Throughout the discussion we find out an old man living beneath the boy and his father testified that he heard a fight upstairs, and the boy shouting “I’m going to kill you!” and a body hit the ground and then saw the boy running downstairs. The boy claimed he had been at the movies while his father was murdered, but couldn’t remember the name of the movie or who was in them. A women living across the street testified that she saw the boy kill his father through the windows of a passing elevated train. The boy had an argument with father that night, which resulted the boy’s father hitting him twice. Finally, the boy has an extensive list of prior offenses, including trying to slash another teenager with a knife.…
In analyzing 12 Angry Men the first theory that came to mind is the Universal Theory of Leadership. The theory is defined as the belief that certain personal characteristics and skills contribute to leadership effectiveness in many situations. This shows true with Juror #8. Juror #8 was the architect who emerged as a real effective leader. The architect showed self-confidence and assertiveness. He convinced the jury that once all thought the young man was guilty to believing he was innocent due to the lack of proof and questionable assumptions. He showed himself as respectable, knowledgeable, and authentic. The architect rose question as to whether or not the circumstances could be possible by re-enacting the situation. He challenged the process completely by doing this. He was also a leader of integrity because he was loyal to rational principles, practiced what he preached, and did this regardless of the social pressure from fellow jurors’. With these characteristic traits the architect proves to be an charismatic and effective leader.…
purchase of the knife, the old man hearing a yell, and the movie theater. The…
Minority Matters: 12 Angry Men as a Case Study of a Successful Negotiation against the Odds…