Posted on 04/01/2012 8:48:32 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
"The plot of 12 Angry Men revolves around the murder trail of a Latino boy who is accused of killing his father. The conviction of the boy would mean a death sentence and the destiny of the boy's life is in the hands of twelve male jurors of ranging personalities. The case seems open and shut with a murder weapon and several witnesses to place the boy at the scene of the crime. For eleven of the jurors the decision is apparent that the boy is guilty but for one juror, Mr. Davis (Henry Fonda), the boy's life should entail some discussion to eliminate any reasonable doubt the jurors may have. As the film progresses the personalities of the jurors become apparent and many underlying issues influence the guilty decision chosen by the majority of the jurors. "
- IMDb
Excellent movie.
Liberals make great films, no one questions that.
I saw it produced once at a summer theater in upstate New York. My wife and I were in the front row of an old church converted into a theater.
About a half hour into the play I started counting, "One, two, three...eleven." I counted again, "One, two, three...eleven."
I could only count eleven actors on stage. The cheesy theater company had produced 12 Angry Men with only eleven actors one of whom had a hair lip. At that point I started to loose my s**t and shake uncontrollably. My wife dug her fingernails into my leg to make me stop.
I thought about Clint Eastwood, I can’t remember a film where he played the bad guy. He was mostly tough and gritty, often presumed to the bad guy, but ultimately he was good.
I like the movie, too.
Having served twice on juries that would seriously affect the lives of the defendants— our decisions affected child custody, employment, jail time, and more— we analyzed the evidence for quite a while. We looked beyond the obvious because we wanted to be sure that we came to the just decision.
Your job was to objectively apply the law to the existing facts. Nothing more. You sound like you did more than your job, maybe too much emotion involved.
Your job was to objectively apply the law to the existing facts. Nothing more. You sound like you did more than your job, maybe too much emotion involved.
You weren’t there, so you don’t know what you’re talking about. You don’t know the charges, the evidence we heard, or anything else. You don’t know the commentary we got from the prosecuting attorney or the judge after we rendered our decision and the trial was over. [Both the judge and the assistant distract attorney agreed that we came to what they considered the fairest conclusion.]
So, I’ll discard your idle comment for the trash it is.
Actually, there is more. Your job as a juror is also to judge the law itself. An unjust law that would make you convict against your conscience is no law at all. The jury is the last refuge of freedom. If we are to be mindless automatons to bend to the dictate of whatever the state will have as law, there is really no point in having juries at all.
BS. The juries job isn't to judge the law. Totally wrongheaded, liberal thinking. If the law is bad then get the law changed. Is Freeper quality slipping?
To me Twelve Angry Men was a cousin to To Kill A Mockingbird
as politically correct sap
but I know many eat it up here.
I remember watching TKAMB as a kid when it came out and getting all teary eyed as a 6 year old and enjoyed it a few more times thru my liberal college daze
But then...I tried to watch it a few years ago and turned it off.
Seeing it for what it really is.
A pox of Harper Lee and her many southern apologist spawn like Kathryn Stockett
but many freepers go:
” but wardaddy how could you...I mean these books and movies are like so true and uplifting in the end and seem so documentary like...same as Deliverance”
let me tell folks...black folks are not the only ones screwed by the justice system
You would send me to prison here in Kalifornia for having a three-ounce plastic pistol grip on my rifle?
The anti-gun majority in Kalifornia would do so. The anti-gun legislature passed the law. Up until recently the anti-gun Ninth Circuit denied any standing under the Second Amendment to citizens of Kalifornia.
I'm 63. How much longer must I wait for your support?
Leave Kalifornia. It is your choice to live in that fetid communist hell-hole. I don't know how JimRob can stand living there anyway. It is a piece of crap garbage state.
And yes if I were on the jury and you had a 3 oz whatever and that is the law then I would find you guilty if the evidence showed that. But then again I DON'T LIVE THERE.
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