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The 8th Juror In Twelve Angry Men By Reginald Rose

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What happens when someone testifies against someone with damning evidence, but the evidence might not be so solid? What are you supposed to do if you are on the Jury, and you have a reasonable doubt? Do you just vote guilty and hope to be done? Do you go ever every piece of detail and figure out what is wrong with the evidence? These are questions that Juror number 8 from the play Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose has when he is put on a jury.

In the play Twelve Angry Men, Juror number 8’s role is to try and decide whether a 16 year old teenager is guilty or not of killing his father. He is especially important to the play because he votes not guilty because he had a reasonable doubt, and that meant that he would have to use tiny clues and facts to see if the boy was in fact guilty.

In the play, his intelligence, and knowledge of …show more content…

Let's take the two pieces of testimony and try to put them together. First, the old man in the apartment downstairs. He says he heard the by say, “I’m going to kill you” and a second later he heard the body hit the floor. One second later. Right?...Second, the woman in the apartment across the street. She claimed that she looked out of her window and saw the killing through the last two cars of a passing elevated train. Right? The last two cars...Now, we agreed that an el train takes about ten seconds to pass a given point. Since the woman saw the stabbing through the last two cars, we can assume the body fell to the floor just as the train passed by. THerefore, the el train had been roaring by the old man's window for a full ten seconds before the body fell. The old man, according to his own testimony, hearing “I’m going to kill you” and the body falling a split second later, would have had to hear the boy make this as the el train rolled past his house. It's not logical that he could have heard it” (Rose 34-35). This goes to show that the knowledge beforehand influenced on how he voted, and the evidence he

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