the verdict must be unanimous‚ twelve jurors have a critical thinking in their discussion and finally made the vote from eleven jurors vote for guilty to unanimous vote for not guilty. During the development of the voting‚ Juror Three is hardly to persuade because he has a serious prejudice to the murder. If Juror Three does not admit the murder is not guilty‚ they cannot settle a lawsuit. Therefore‚ Juror Three’s prejudice should be the key to get the final verdict. Juror Three has a strong prejudice
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(p.34) which modified the votes of Juror Two and Six. Correspondingly‚ most jurors immediately started to rethink their votes as the evidence was slowly examined in depth. Allowing the evidence to digest and the vote count to change from “11 to 1- guilty” (p.7) to reach a verdict
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has been accused of murdering his father and the jury has retired to determine his fate. The jury performs a preliminary vote and the results came out to be eleven for guilty and one‚ the architect played by Henry Fonda‚ for not-guilty. The rest of the jury then begins to persuade the architect that the accused is actually guilty. Each member of the jury played a key role in the development of the group and the task at hand. The foreman played a major task role and was almost like a manager of
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18-year-old Latino accused of stabbing his father to death‚ where a guilty verdict means an automatic death sentence. The case appears to be open-and-shut: The defendant has a weak alibi; a knife he claimed to have lost is found at the murder scene; and several witnesses either heard screaming‚ saw the killing or the boy fleeing the scene. Eleven of the jurors immediately vote guilty; only Juror No. 8 (Mr. Davis) casts a not guilty vote. At first Mr. Davis’ bases his vote more so for the sake of discussion
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The statement "It is better that 10 guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer" summarises and highlights the mistakes and injustices in the criminal justice system. In a just society‚ the innocent would never be charged‚ nor convicted‚ and the guilty would always be caught and punished. Unfortunately‚ it seems this would be impossible to achieve due to the society in which we live. Therefore‚ miscarriages of justice occur in the criminal justice system more frequently than is publicised
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a highly successful film. Since then it has been given numerous remakes‚ adaptations‚ and tributes. The play concerns the deliberations of the jury of a homicide trial. At the beginning‚ they have a nearly unanimous decision of guilty‚ with a single dissenter of not guilty‚ who throughout the play sews a seed of reasonable doubt. This was first made as a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series‚ and aired as a live CBS Television production on the September 20th
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comply to avoid punishment. While in the locked room a vote was taken to start things off. The votes were spoken out loud and counted. While going in order‚ ’guilty’‚ ’guilty’‚ ’guilty’‚ then a hesitant ’guilty’. The juror that hesitated to say guilty‚ only agreed with the others so he could avoid social punishment‚ disliking. He only said guilty to comply with the rest of the group. What would happen to him if he disagreed? He had no choice but to agree‚ unless he wanted to face the rest of the jurors
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punished until the twelve jurors all agree that he is guilty. Those jurors are from different places and have variable social backgrounds. They don’t know each other and have nothing to lose or gain by their verdict. They all view the case in a distinct way and therefore some of them may discover doubtful points about the case. It has a much lower possibility of miscarriage of justice compare to just have one person to decide whether the defendant is guilty or not. There are twelve people and the defendant
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or "an act does not make a man guilty unless his mind be also guilty (Burgess‚ 2004‚ p.8)." In criminal law‚ for an individual to commit a crime‚ there must be present two elements. They are: Actus Reus (meaning guilty act or omission); and Mens Rea (meaning guilty mind). Actus Reus is the guilty act or omission in the commissioning of a crime. In short‚ it is what the offender does or doesn’t do which results in a crime taking place. Mens Rea is the guilty mind behind the crime. It is what
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The phrase "innocent until proven guilty" has been quoted for many years. In our society‚ we have labeled the accused person either guilty or not guilty without giving that person or persons their rith of due process. Webster’s New World College Dictionary Fourth Edition says: "Due Process is the course of legal proceedings established by the legal system of a nation or state to protect individual rights and liberties." Due Process will allow an accused person time to go through the court proceeding
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