12 Angry Men Facts

I. TESTAMONIE: * From Witnesses: * Witness heard fighting between boy and father at 8pm * Witness saw boy run out of building after fight * Witness heard boy yell “I’m going to kill you” at 12:10 A.M. * Witness heard body fall a second later * Witness saw boy run down stairs and out of building * Witness from across street, 60 feet away, divided by an “L” line, saw boy stab his father in a downward motion through her bedroom window, looking through the windows of the last two cars of a passing 6 car “L” train at 12:10 AM * Nobody saw the boy going to or coming out of movie theater * The Police: * Questioned and arrested boy at 3AM when he returned home from the movies, in his apartment next to his father’s dead body * During this time, the boy stated he was at the movies but could not recall the name or the stars in it * The Psychiatrist for the prosecution: * Stated the boy suffers from Homicidal and Paranoid Tendencies * The Prosecution: * Time of Death around 12:10AM * Father stabbed 4 inches into the chest with a downward angle * No one at theater could identify the boy * The boy: * Bought knife at neighborhood pawnshop * Bought knife for a friend who’s knife he had broke * Stated that the knife fell out of his pants through a hole in his pocket * Claimed he went to the movies at 11:30PM and returned home at 3AM to find his father dead and was arrested at that time * At the trial, the boy remembered the name of the movie and all the stars in it II. THE WITNESSES: * Within same apartment complex as the killing * Old man lived In the apartment directly below the boys apartment * Heard loud noises resembling a fight * Heard the boy yell out “I’m going to kill you” at 12:10AM * Heard body hit the floor a second later * Ran to his door and saw the boy running down the stairs and out the building

* Couple living across from the boys apartment