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Lemmon's Argumentative Analysis

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The argument that I will be analysing is the argument about the knife supposedly use as the murder weapon. The knife was brought up into the conversation because is was supposed to be a “one of a kind knife” but 8th juror desiced to challenge these claim made in court. The evidence behind this claim was, jury was told that it was found as the murder weapon. This knife was linked to the boy because he had boughten the same knife a couple blocks down the street from his apartment. When the boy purchased the knife the selling point was that the knife is that is was supposedly “one of a kind”, that no one else has its twin or a similar knife. The boy claims that the knife found was not his. That the knife had fallen out of his a hole in his pocket while he was walking to the movie theater. So when the knife was brought into question the majority of the jurors believed the evidence they were given in court without a doubt. But the 8th …show more content…

Jack Lemmon’s character question everyone on the jury’s on why they thought the defendant was guilty. Jack give the defendant the benefit of the doubt, he questioned every one of the jurors reason to convicted him guilt. This is because Jack believes everyone should get a fair trial, and to have all the evidence that was presented during the case to be evaluated and questioned. He believed that just because some evidence might point the defendant to guilty doesn't mean that they are. Eventually Jack character was able to turn the majority of the jurors to not guilty.

3. While watching this movie I learned how easily the 8th juror was able to slowly change the majority of the jurors minds to not guilty. He was to provide adequate evidence and logic for each argument. He question each of them and in the end made them question their own opinion about their claim. This movie just proved that one person can change a group of peoples mind about something if the provide a well thought out argument with good evidence supporting that

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