12 Angry Men In a world where the jury is the voice of the people’s justice‚ twelve men sit in a room poised to determine the fate of one boy’s life. Did he do it? If he didn’t‚ who did? Why would a young man kill his beloved father with a switchblade knife? The moment that the jury-comprised of twelve Caucasian men‚ abhorrent in today’s society-entered the small‚ blank‚ bleak room‚ they had already come to the conclusion that the young man was guilty as charged without deliberation.
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12 Angry Men 12 Angry Men depicts how a jury of twelve men must examine the evidence presented at the trial of a young boy accused of murdering his father. The evidence brought forth in the trial is the testimony of an old man who lives in the apartment about the boy’s‚ a switchblade knife‚ the boy’s sketchy alibi‚ and the eyewitness testimony of a woman who lives across from the boy’s apartment building. With the evidence making the boy appear guilty‚ a single juror questions the accuracy of
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“12 Angry Men” Essay The movie "12 Angry Men" focuses on a jury’s decision on a capital murder case. A 12-man jury is sent to begin decisions on the first-degree murder trial of an 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
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12 Angry Men In the film 12 Angry Men‚ 12 male jurors decided the fate of an 18 year old boy on trial for murdering his abusive father. They boy was said to have been orphaned by his mother at a young age and sent to live in an orphanage until his father got out of prison. When he was sent to live with his father‚ he had a hard life and a rough childhood. It was known that his father would physically abuse him because one of the jurors pointed out that “ He would get a beating everyday‚ wouldn’t
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In the movie‚ 12 Angry Men‚ an 18 year old boy from a slum is charged with murder. He is put on trial for being accused of stabbing his father in the chest with a knife. Some of the first ten amendments of the Bill of Rights are shown in this movie such as the fifth and sixth amendments. According to the Fifth Amendment when there is a jury trial all 12 jurors must make a unanimous vote on whether or not the defendant is innocent or guilty. 12 Angry men shows how one man votes the 18 year old boy
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Seth Turner Professor Wilson Speech 22 April 2013 12 Angry Men 12 Angry Men is a filmed based on the theme of reasonable doubt. A jury of twelve men are chosen to determine whether the eighteen year old boy killed his father or not. The initial evidence that includes two eye witnesses would suggest that this case is a closed decision and they boy will surely be found guilty. The jury does not take long before coming to a vote ending in 11 votes for guilty 1 vote for non guilty. The man who voted
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12 Angry Men Analysis 12 Angry Men is a movie‚ directed by Sidney Lumet‚ about twelve jurors who are deliberating a murder trial. An 18 year old 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
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or convincing; rather‚ it is a learning and negotiating process. Good persuaders use and listen to ongoing and active discussions (or debates) to learn about their audience and include different opinions into a shared conclusion. In the movie “12 Angry Men”‚ juror number 8 (Henry Fonda) was not sure if evidence presented against a young defendant in court left reasonable doubt for a guilty conviction. The other jurors believed the presented facts and the defendant’s background warrants a guilty
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12 Angry Men Paper 9/17/13 The movie “12 Angry Men” is about a murder trial set in the mid 1900’s when the American legal system had very different rules from what it has now. The trial is about a 16 year old boy who supposedly murdered his father late one night in New York City. He was from a slum‚ with a history of problems with the law‚ including knife fights. The jury is made up of twelve white men who are supposed to deliberate about the boy’s fate when he is Latino. In the beginning of
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Daniella Portelada April 5‚ 2011 Susan Naide CJ 102 12 Angry Men Throughout my life I have been presented with opinionated questions to answer and a lot of the times I found it difficult to answer them without asking around a bit. Looking back on that I believe that is it impossible to remain truly impartial. You may start off with your own idea but one everyone else around you starts presenting their ides you may begin to change your mind. If it is something that someone believes in there is
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