12 Angry Men- Reasonable Doubt

it's always difficult to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this wherever you run into it prejudice always obscures the truth i don't really know what the truth is i don't suppose anybody will ever really know nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant is innocent but we're just gambling on probabilities we may be wrong we may be trying to let a guilty man go free i don't know nobody really can but we have a reasonable doubt and that's something that's very valuable in our system no jury can declare a man guilty unless it's sure we nine can't understand how you three are still so sure maybe you can tell us i'll try you've made some excellent points but i still believe the boy is guilty of murder and i have two reasons one the evidence given by the woman across the street who actually saw the murder committed as far as i'm concerned it's the most important testimony and two the fact that she described the stabbing by saying she saw the boy raised his arm over his head and stabbed down into the father's chest she saw him do it the wrong way that's absolutely right let's talk about this woman for a moment she said she went to bed about 11 o'clock that night her bed was next to the window and she could look out while lying down and see directly into the boy's room across the street she tossed and turned for over an hour unable to sleep finally she turned toward the window at about 10 minutes after 12 and as she looked out she saw the killing through the windows of a passing l train she said the lights went out immediately after the killing but that she got a good look at the boy in the act of stabbing his father as far as i can see it this is unshakable testimony well that's the whole case what do you think how about you so much evidence to sit this is a pretty complicated business frankly i don't see how you can vote for acquittal it's not so easy to arrange all the evidence in order you can throw out all the other evidence the woman saw him do it what else do you want well maybe let's vote on it okay does another vote call for anyone object all right i'm changing my vote anybody else the voters have all why is this such a personal trial for you it's fun okay i say we're a hung jury i say we take it into the judge how about it i want to hear arguments you you're the leader of the cause what about it let's go over it again we've been over it again the boy in the great flannel suit here is bouncing backwards and forwards like a tennis ball no point in getting nasty trying to turn this into a contest okay maybe we can talk about setting some kind of time limit yeah once a while for the deal huh it's uh quarter after six some of the aforementioned seven o'clock i think that's the point at which we might begin to discuss the question of whether we're a hung jury or not i hope you're feeling well i feel perfectly well thank you i was saying that seven o'clock would be a reasonable time uh the reason i asked about that was because uh you rub your nose like oh i'm sorry it was a roughing but you made a gesture that reminded me of something i'm trying to settle something here do you mind but i think this is important thank you now then i'm sure you'll pardon me for this but i was wondering why you rub your nose like that oh come on will you at this point i happen to be talking to the gentleman sitting next to you now why were you rubbing your nose like that well if it's any of your business i was rubbing it but it bothers me oh i'm sorry is it is it because of your eyeglasses it is now can you get onto something else your eyeglasses made those two deep impressions in the size of your nose i hadn't noticed that before that must be annoying it is very annoying i wouldn't know about that i've never worn eyeglasses 2020. listen will you come on already with the optometrist bit the woman who testified that she saw the killing and those same marks on the sides of our nose just give you a minute now they're finished i don't know if anyone else knows that about her i didn't think of it then but i've been going over her face in my mind she had those same marks she kept rubbing them in court he's right but she did do that a lot this woman was about uh about 45 years old she's making a tremendous effort to look 35 for her first public appearance heavy makeup dyed hair brand new clothes that should have been worn by a younger woman no glasses no women do that see if you can get a mental picture of it what do you mean no glasses how do you know whether she wore glasses just because she was rubbing her nose now she had those marks i saw but so what what do you think that means listen i'm getting so sick of your yelling hey listen listen he's right i saw them too i was the closest one to her she had these uh these things in the side of her nose what do you call it well what point are you making here she had dyed hair marks on her nose well what looks like me could those marks be made by anything other than eyeglasses no they couldn't i didn't see any marks i did strange but i didn't think about it before but what about the lawyer why didn't he say something there are 12 people in here concentrating on this case 11 of us didn't think of it either but what about the district attorney you think he'd pull a trick like that half a testify without a glasses did you ever see a woman who had to wear glasses and didn't want to because she thinks they spoil her looks okay she had marks on her nose i'm giving you that from glasses right she didn't want to wear them out of the house or people think she's gorgeous but when she saw this kid killing his father she was in the house alone that's all do you wear glasses when you go to bed no i don't no one wears eyeglasses to bed it's logical to assume that she wasn't wearing them when she was in bed tossing and turning trying to fall asleep how do you know i don't know i'm guessing i'm also guessing that she probably didn't put her glasses on when she turned to look casually out of the window and she herself testified the killing took place just as she looked out the lights went off a split second maybe she couldn't have had time to put them on there here's another guest maybe she honestly thought she saw the boy kill his father i say she only saw a blur how do you know what she saw how does he know all that how do you know what kind of glasses you want maybe there was sunglasses maybe she was farsighted what do you know about it i only know the woman's eyesight is in question now she had to be able to identify a person 60 feet away at night without glasses you can't send someone off to die on evidence like that oh don't give me that don't you think the woman might have made a mistake no it's not possible no it's not possible is it possible not guilty you think he's guilty i think he's guilty you no i'm convinced not guilty what's the matter with you i have a reasonable doubt now 71. but what about all the other evidence what about all that stuff the the knife the whole business you said we could draw all the other evidence well what are we doing now you're alone

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Published: Wed Mar 24 2021