The jury in a trial is selected to examine certain facts and determine truth based only upon
the evidence presented to them in court. It is assumed that the jurors will judge fairly and
without any personal bias. In spite of this assumption people will be people and in some
cases, logic and emotion will collide. An excellent example that shows precisely what I'm
talking about is in the movie Twelve Angry Men. Twelve men who initially are strangers
to each other have the fate of a young boy resting in the palm of their hands. In the
beginning everyone is convinced he is guilty except one who has one reasonable doubt in
his mind. The single man on his own was able to convince each of them by using logic to
examine the testimony of each witness. After a few hours of reasoning the jurors were
eventually won over allowing the facts to overcome their personal issues.......

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Title: Twelve Angry Men
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