12 Angry Men Lines

Front 1

FOUR:

Shall we all admit right now that it is hot and

humid and our tempers are short?

Back 1

It's been a pretty hard week.

Front 2

FOREMAN:

How about sitting down? The gentleman at the

window. How about sitting down?

Back 2

Oh, I'm sorry.

Front 3

THREE:

Right. Let's vote now.

Back 3

All right. Let us vote.

Front 4

THREE:

Do you really believe he's not guilty?

Back 4

I don't know.

Front 5

TWELVE:

In six days, I could learn Calculus. This is A, B, C.

Back 5

I don't believe that it is as simple as A, B, C.

Front 6

THREE:

I never saw a guiltier man in my life.

Back 6

What does a guilty man look like? He is not guilty until we say he is guilty. Are we to vote on his face?

Front 7

THREE:

You sat in court and heard the same things I did.

The man's a dangerous killer. You could see it.

Back 7

Where do you look to see if a man is a killer?

Front 8

THREE:

Oh, well!...

Back 8

I would like to know.

Tell me what facial characteristics of a killer are. Maybe you know something I don't know.

Front 9

FOUR:

Look! What is there about the case that makes you think the boy is innocent?

Back 9

He's nineteen years old.

Front 10

THREE:

All right. They proved it a dozen ways. Do you

want me to list them?

Back 10

No.

Front 11

TEN:

Do you believe the kid's story?

Back 11

I don't know whether I believe it or not.

Maybe I don't.

Front 12

SEVEN:

So what'd you vote not guilty for?

Back 12

There were eleven votes for guilty - it's not so easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.

Front 13

FOUR:

Or me?

Back 13

No one.

Front 14

SEVEN:

Is there something wrong because I voted fast?

Back 14

Not necessarily.

Front 15

SEVEN:

I think the guy's guilty. You couldn't change my mind if you talked for a hundred years.

Back 15

I don't want to change your mind.

Front 16

THREE:

Just what are you thinking of?

Back 16

I want to talk for a while. Look - this boy's been kicked around all hid life. You know - living in a slum - his mother dead since he was nine. That's not a very good head start. He's a tough, angry kid. You know why slum kids get that way? Because we knock 'em over the head once a day, every day. I think maybe we owe him a few words. That's all.

Front 17

TWO:

Oh. Well... I just think he's guilty. I thought it was obvious.

Back 17

In what way was it obvious?

Front 18

TWO:

I mean that nobody proved otherwise.

Back 18

Nobody has to prove otherwise; innocent until proven guilty. The burden of proof is on the prosecution. The defendant doesn't have to open his mouth. That's in the Constitution. The Fifth Amendment. You've heard of it.

Front 19

TWO:

Well, sure - I've heard of it. I know what it is... I... what I meant... well, anyway... I think he's guilty!

Back 19

No reasons - just guilty.

There is a life at stake here.

Front 20

THREE:

Right. Now what else do you want?

Back 20

It doesn't seem to fit.

Front 21

He didn't have any ticket stub.

Back 21

Who keeps a ticket stub at the movies?

Front 22

TEN:

Just a minute.

Here's a woman who's lying in bed and can't sleep. It's hot, you know. Anyway, she wakes up and she looks out the window, and right across the street she sees the kid stick the knife into his father.

Back 22

How can she really be sure it was the kid when she saw it through the windows of a passing elevated train?

Front 23

TEN:

She's known the kid all his life. His window is right opposite hers - across the el tracks - and she swore she saw him do it.

Back 23

I heard her swear to it.

Front 24

TEN:

Okay. And they proved in court that you can look through the windows of a passing el train at night, and see what's happening on the other side. They proved it.

Back 24

Weren't you just telling us just a minute or two ago that you can't trust them? That you can't believe them.

Front 25

TEN:

So?

Back 25

Then I'd like to ask you something. How come you believed her? She's one of them, too, isn't she?

Front 26

FOUR:

Gentlemen, they did take us out to the woman's room and we looked through the windows of a passing el train - didn't we?

Back 26

Yes. We did.

Front 27

FOUR:

And weren't you able to see what happened on the other side?

Back 27

I didn't see as well as they told me I would see, but I did see what happened on the other side.

Front 28

ELEVEN:

I think it was eight o'clock. Not seven.

Back 28

That's right. Eight o'clock.

Front 29

Six:

Right.

Back 29

What does that prove?

Front 30

SEVEN:

I don't know - most of it's been said already. We can talk all day about this thing, but I think we're wasting our time.

Back 30

I don't.

Front 31

SEVEN:

This is a very find boy.

Back 31

Ever since he was five years old his father beat him up regularly. He used his fists.

Front 32

THREE:

Come on, now. He didn't mean you, feller. Let's not be so sensitive.

Back 32

Who did he mean?

Front 33

FOREMAN:

It's your turn.

Back 33

All right. I had a peculiar feeling about this trial. Somehow I felt that the defense counsel never really conducted a thorough cross-examination. Too many questions were left unasked.

Front 34

THREE:

So-o-o-o?

Back 34

This is a point.

Front 35

THREE:

What about facts?

Back 35

So many questions were never answered.

Front 36

THREE:

What about the questions that were answered? For instance, let's talk about that cute little switch knife. You know, the one that fine uptight kid admitted buying.

Back 36

All right, let's talk about it. Let's get it in here and look at it. I'd like to see it again, Ms. Foreman.

Front 37

FOUR:

The knife is a pretty strong piece of evidence, don't you agree?

Back 37

I do.

Front 38

TWELVE:

The boy admits going out of his house at eight o'clock, after being slapped by his father.

Back 38

Or punched.

Front 39

FOUR:

Am I right so far?

Back 39

Right.

Front 40

FOUR:

Everyone connected with with the case identified this knife. Now are you trying to tell me that someone picked up off the street and went up to the boy's house and stabbed his father with it just to be amusing.

Back 40

No. I'm saying that it's possible that the boy lost the knife and that someone else stabbed his father with a similar knife. It's possible.

Front 41

FOUR:

Take a look at that knife. It's a very strange knife. I've never seen one like it before in my life. Neither had the storekeeper who sold it to him. Aren't you trying to make us accept a pretty incredible coincidence?

Back 41

I'm not trying to make anyone accept it. I'm just saying it's possible.

Front 42

FOUR:

Where did you get it?

Back 42

I got it in a little junk shop around the corner from the boy's house. It cost two dollars.

Front 43

THREE:

Now listen to me.

Back 43

I'm listening.

Front 44

You pulled a real smart trick here, but you proved absolutely zero. Maybe there are knives like that, so what?

Back 44

Maybe there are.

Front 45

The boy lied and you know it.

Back 45

And maybe he didn't lie. Maybe he did lose the knife and maybe he did go to the movies. Maybe the reason the cashier didn't see him was because he sneaked into the movies, and maybe he was ashamed to say so. Is there anybody here who didn't sneak into the movies once or twice when they were young?

Front 46

FOUR:

Oh.

Back 46

Maybe he did go to the movies - maybe he didn't. And - he may have lied.

(to TEN)

Do you think he lied?

Front 47

TEN:

Now that's a stupid question. Sure, he lied!

Back 47

Do you?

Front 48

FOUR:

You didn't have to ask me that. You know my answer. He lied.

Back 48

(to FIVE)

Do you think he lied?

Front 49

SEVEN:

Now wait a second. What are you - the guy's lawyer? Listen - there are still eleven of us who think he's guilty. You're alone. What do you think you're going to accomplish? If you want to be stubborn and hang this jury he'll be tried again, and found guilty sure as he's born.

Back 49

You're probably right.

Front 50

SEVEN:

Oh, now. Come on.

Back 50

(To NINE)

Well, yes, that's true.

Front 51

FOUR:

Obviously you don't think the boy is guilty.

Back 51

I have a doubt in my mind.

Front 52

TEN:

Still, you know...

Back 52

I've got a proposition to make.

I want you to call for a vote. I want you eleven to vote by secret ballot. I'll abstain. If there are still eleven votes for guilty. I won't stand alone. We'll take in a guilty verdict right now.

Front 53

THREE:

All right! Who did it? What idiot changed his vote?

Back 53

Is that the way to talk about a man's life?

Front 54

SEVEN:

Look. Supposing you answer me this. If the kid didn't kill him, who did?

Back 54

As far as I know, we're supposed to decide whether or not the boy on trial is guilty. We're not concerned with anyone else's motives here.

Front 55

SEVEN:

I suppose, but who else had a motive.

Back 55

The kid's father was along in years, maybe an old grudge.

Front 56

THREE:

Now, if that's not good enough for you -

Back 56

It's not enough for me.

Front 57

THREE:

Well, what have you got to say about that?

Back 57

I don't know. It doesn't sound right to me.

Front 58

THREE:

Well, supposing you think about it. Lend me your pencil. Let's play some tic-tac-toe. We might as well pass the time.

Back 58

This isn't a game.

Front 59

THREE:

Now, wait a minute.

Back 59

This is a man's life.

Front 60

FOUR:

Weren't we talking about elevated trains?

Back 60

Yes, we were.

Front 61

FOUR:

So?

Back 61

All right. How long does it take an elevated train going at top speed to pass a given point?

Front 62

FOUR:

What has that got to do with anything?

Back 62

How long would it take? Guess.

Front 63

NINE:

I don't think they mentioned it.

Back 63

What do you think?

Front 64

FIVE:

About ten or twelve seconds - maybe.

Back 64

I'd say that was a fair guess.

Anyone else?

Front 65

FOUR:

All right, we're agreed. Ten seconds. What are you getting at?

Back 65

This. An el train passes a given point in ten seconds. That given point is the window of the room in which the killing took place. You can almost reach out of the window of that room and touch the el. Right?

Front 66

FOUR:

So?

Back 66

All right.

Now let me ask you this. Did anyone here ever live right next to the el tracks?

Front 67

FIVE:

I've lived close to them.

Back 67

They make a lot of noise, don't they?

I've lived right by the el tracks. When your window is open and the train goes by, the noise is almost unbearable. You can't hear yourself think.

Front 68

TEN:

Okay. You can't hear yourself think. Get to the point.

Back 68

The old man who lived downstairs heard the boy say -

Front 69

THREE:

He didn't say it, he screamed it.

Back 69

The old man heard the boy scream, "I'm going to kill you," and one second later he heard a body fall.

One second. That's the testimony, right?

Front 70

TWO:

Right.

Back 70

The woman across the street looked through the windows of the last two cars of the el and saw the body fall. Right?

Front 71

TWELVE:

So?

Back 71

The last two cars.

The last two cars.

Front 72

TEN:

What are you giving us here?

Back 72

An el train takes ten seconds to pass a given point, or two seconds per car. The el had been going by the old man's window for at least six seconds and maybe more before the body fell, according to the woman. The old man would have had to hear the boy say, "I'm going to kill you," while the front of the el was roaring past his nose. It's not possible that he could have heard it.

Front 73

THREE:

What do you mean! Sure, he could have heard it.

Back 73

With an el train going by?

Front 74

THREE:

He said the boy yelled it out.

Back 74

An el train makes a lot of noise.

Front 75

THREE:

What are you people talking about?

Are you calling that old man a liar?

Back 75

Something doesn't fit.

Front 76

THREE:

You keep coming up with these bright sayings. Why don't you send one in to a newspaper? They pay two dollars.

Back 76

What does that have to do with a man's life?

(to NINE)

Why might the old man have lied? You have a right to be heard.

Front 77

THREE:

If you want to admit you're a liar, that's all right by me.

Back 77

Now, that is too much!

Front 78

THREE:

She's a liar. She just told us so.

Back 78

She did not say she was a liar; she was explaining.

Front 79

THREE:

Didn't you admit that you're a liar?

Back 79

Please - she was explaining the circumstances so that we could understand why the old man might have lied. There is a difference.

Front 80

THREE:

A liar is a liar, that's all there is to it

Back 80

Please - have some compassion.

Front 81

FOUR:

I think they've covered it.

Back 81

I hope we have.

Front 82

FOREMAN:

Come on. Let's get on with it.

Back 82

I'll take one. Thank you. Now - there's something else I'd like to point out here. I think we proved the old man couldn't have heard the boy say, "I'm going to kill you."

Front 83

FOUR:

Let's hear her through, anyway.

Back 83

But supposing the old man really did hear the boy say, "I'm going to kill you." This phrase - how many times has each of you used it? Probably hundreds. "If you do that once more, Junior, I'm going to murder you." "Come on, Rocky, kill him!" We say it every day. That doesn't mean that we're really going to kill someone.

Front 84

TEN:

And how they mean it!

Back 84

Well, let me ask you this. Do you really think they boy would should out a thing like that so that the whole neighborhood would hear it? I don't think so. He's much too bright for that.

Front 85

FOUR:

He said he went. I remember it now. He went from his bedroom to the front door. That's enough, isn't it?

Back 85

Where was his bedroom, again?

Front 86

TEN:

Down the hall somewhere.

Back 86

Down the hall! Are we to send a man off to die because it's down the hall "somewhere"?

Front 87

TEN:

I thought you remembered everything. Don't you remember that?

Back 87

No, I don't.

Front 88

NINE:

I don't remember, either.

Back 88

Ms. Foreman, I'd like to take a look at the diagram of the apartment.

Front 89

SEVEN:

Why don't we have them run over the trial over just so you can get everything straight?

Back 89

The bedroom is down the hall somewhere. Do you know - do you know exactly where it is? Please. A man's life is at stake. Do you know?

Front 90

SEVEN:

Well, ah...

Back 90

Ms. Foreman.

Front 91

FOUR:

Are we going to start wading through all that nonsense about where the body was found?

Back 91

We're not. We're going to find out how a man who's had two strokes in the past three years and who walks with a pair of canes could get to his front door in fifteen seconds.

Front 92

THREE:

He's an old man. You saw that. Half the time he was confused. How could he be positive about - anything? Well, ah - you know.

Back 92

No, I don't know. Maybe you know.

Front 93

FOREMAN:

You want this?

Back 93

Yes, please.

Front 94

FOUR:

Some of us are interested. Go ahead.

Back 94

All right. This is the apartment in which the killing took place. The old man's apartment is directly beneath it, and exactly the same. Here are the el tracks. The bedroom. Another bedroom. Living room. Bathroom. Kitchen. And this is the hall. Here's the front door to the apartment, and here are the steps. Now, the old man was in bed in this room. He says he got up, went out into the hall, down the hall to the front door and opened it and looked out just in time to see the boy racing down the stairs. Am I right?

Front 95

SEVEN:

That's what happened!

Back 95

Fifteen seconds after he heard the body fall.

Front 96

ELEVEN:

Correct.

Back 96

His bed was at the window. It's twelve feet from his bed to the bedroom door. The length of the hall is forty-three feet six inches. He had to get up out of bed, get his canes, walk twelve feet, open the bedroom door, walk forty-three feet and open the front door - all in fifteen seconds. Do you think this is possible?

Front 97

THREE:

What are you doing?

Back 97

I want to try this thing. Let's see how long it took him. I'm going to pace off twelve feet - the length of the bedroom.

Front 98

FOUR:

I can't see any harm in it. Foolish, but go ahead.

Back 98

Hand me a chair, please. All right. This is the bedroom door. How far would you say it is from here to the door of this room?

Front 99

TWO:

Just about.

Back 99

Twenty feet is close enough. All right, from here to the door and back is about forty feet. It's shorter than the length of the hall the old man had to move through. Wouldn't you say that?

Front 100

FOREMAN:

We can't stop him.

Back 100

Do you mind if it try it? According to you, it'll only take fifteen seconds. We can spare that. Who's got a watch with a second hand?

Front 101

TWO:

I have.

Back 101

When you want me to start, stamp your foot. That'll be the body failing.

Front 102

TWO:

We'll time you from there.

Back 102

Let's say he keeps his canes right at his bedside. Right?

Front 103

FOUR:

Right!

Back 103

Okay. I'm ready.

Front 104

THREE:

No, it isn't.

Back 104

If you think I should go faster, I will.

Front 105

FOUR:

Speed it up a little.

Back 105

Stop.

Front 106

TWO:

Right.

Back 106

What's the time?

Front 107

FOUR:

Quite a discrepancy.

Back 107

It's my guess that the old man was trying to get to the door, heard someone racing down the stairs and assumed that it was the boy.

Front 108

THREE:

Assumed? Now, listen to me, you people. I've seen all kinds of dishonesty in my day - but this little display take the cake.

Back 108

What dishonesty?

Front 109

THREE: Tell him! You come in here with your heart bleeding all over the floor about slum kids and injustice and you make up these wild stories, and you've got some soft-hearted old ladies listening to you. Well, I'm not. I'm getting real sick of you. What's the matter with you people? The kid is guilty! He's got to burn! We're letting him slip through our fingers.

Back 109

Our fingers. Are you his executioner?

Front 110

THREE:

I'm one of them!

Back 110

Perhaps you'd like to pull the switch.

Front 111

THREE:

For this kid? You bet I'd like to pull the switch!

Back 111

I'm sorry for you.

Front 112

THREE:

Don't start with me!

Back 112

What it must feel like to want to pull the switch!

Front 113

THREE:

Shut up!

Back 113

You're a sadist...

Front 114

THREE:

Shut up!

Back 114

You want to see this boy die because you personally want it - not because of the facts. You are a beast. You disgust me.

Front 115

THREE:

Shut up. Let me go! I'll kill him! I'll kill him!

Back 115

You don't really mean you'll kill me, do you?

Front 116

TWELVE:

Well, we're still nowhere.

Back 116

No, we're somewhere, or getting there - maybe.

Front 117

FOREMAN:

Eight?

Back 117

Not guilty.

Front 118

THREE:

It's got to be unanimous - and we're never going to convince him.

Back 118

At first I was alone. Now five others agree; there is a doubt.

Front 119

TWELVE:

I tell you what, maybe we are a hung jury. It happens sometimes.

Back 119

We are not going to be a hung jury.

Front 120

FOREMAN:

Are we or aren't we a hung jury?

Back 120

You mean that we vote yes, we are a hung jury, or no, we are not a hung jury?

Front 121

FOREMAN:

Eight?

Back 121

No.

Front 122

Foreman:

Then we aren't a hung jury - so we go on.

Back 122

Good! We go on.

Front 123

FOUR:

And it might have taken a few seconds to get a handkerchief out and wipe the fingerprints away.

Back 123

This is a point.

Front 124

TWELVE:

Divorce yourself from this particular case - just human nature.

Back 124

Yes, it seems reasonable.

Front 125

THREE:

Maybe the kid held his mouth.

Back 125

That also seems possible.

Front 126

FOUR:

So the story of the old man may well be true.

Back 126

Except for the fact that he absolutely swore, under oath, that it was fifteen seconds.

Front 127

NINE:

We seem to all agree that it was twenty-five to forty seconds later.

Back 127

You are now admitting that the old man lied in one case and told the truth in the other. I admit that this does tend to confirm the story of the old man, but in part he is now a proven liar - and this by your own admission.

Front 128

FOREMAN:

It seems to be about nine guilty to three not guilty.

Back 128

One more question about the old man downstairs. How many of you live in apartment buildings?

Front 129

ELEVEN:

I do not live in a tenement, but it is close and there is just enough light in the hall so you can see the steps, no more - the light bulbs are so small - and this murder took place in a tenement. Remember how we stumbled on the steps?

Back 129

The police officers were using big bulbs and one even had a flashlight. Remember?

Front 130

ELEVEN:

An old man who misjudged the time by twenty seconds, on this we all agree, this old man looked down the dark hallway of a tenement and recognized a running figure?

Back 130

He was one hundred percent wrong about the time; it took twice as long as he thought.

Front 131

FOUR:

Or where your father came from.

Back 131

Maybe it wouldn't hurt us to take a few tips from people who came running here! Maybe they learned something we don't know. We're not so perfect.

Front 132

ELEVEN:

Please... I am used to this... It's all right. Thank you.

Back 132

It's not all right.

Front 133

SEVEN:

Okay-okay-I apologize. Is that what you want?

Back 133

That's what I want.

Front 134

THREE:

Now just calm down. Nobody's hurt, are they?

Back 134

No. Nobody's hurt.

Front 135

SIX:

Down and in. I guess there's no argument.

Back 135

Did you ever stab a man?

Front 136

SIX:

Of course not.

Back 136

Did you?

Front 137

THREE:

All right, let's not be silly.

Back 137

Did you?

Front 138

THREE:

No, I didn't!

Back 138

Where do you get all your information about how it's done?

Front 139

THREE:

What do you mean? It's just common sense.

Back 139

Have you ever seen a man stabbed?

Front 140

THREE:

No.

Back 140

All right. I want to ask you something. The boy was an experienced knife-fighter. He was even sent to reform school for knifing someone. Isn't that so?

Front 141

TWELVE:

That's right.

Back 141

Look at this. Doesn't is seem like an awkward way to handle a knife?

Front 142

FIVE:

Wait a minute! What's the matter with me? Give me the knife!

Back 142

Have you ever seen a knife fight?

Front 143

FIVE:

Yes, I have.

Back 143

In the movies?

Front 144

FIVE:

In my backyard. On my stoop. In the vacant lot across the street. Too many of them. Switch knives came with the neighborhood where I lived. Funny that I didn't think of it before. I guess you try to forget those things. Anyone who's ever used a switch knife would never have stabbed downward. You use it underhanded.

Back 144

Then he couldn't have made the kind of wound that killed his father.

Front 145

TEN:

Neither do I. You're giving us a lot of mumbo-jumbo.

Back 145

(To 12) What do you think?

Front 146

TWELVE:

Well I don't know.

Back 146

(To 7) What about you?

Front 147

THREE:

We have. Guilty.

Back 147

I want to know - is the kid smart or is the kid dumb?

Front 148

FOUR:

What do you mean?

Back 148

This is a kid who has gone to the reform school for knife fighting. The night of the murder he bought a knife, a switch knife. It would then take a very stupid kid to go and murder a man, his father, with an instrument that everyone would associate with the kid.

Front 149

THREE:

I quite agree, he's dumb.

Back 149

However, if he were dumb, then why did he make the kind of wound that an inexperienced man would make with a knife?

Front 150

FOREMAN:

I'm not sure I understand.

Back 150

To murder someone must take a great emotion, great hatred. And at that moment he would handle the knife as best he could, and a trained knife-fighter would handle it as he had been trained, underhand... A man who had not been trained would go overhead... But the kid is being very smart. Everyone knows that he is an experienced knife-fighter - so he is smart enough at the moment to make the wound that an amateur would make. That man is a smart man. Smart enough to wipe the fingerprints away, perhaps even smart enough to wipe the fingerprints away, perhaps even smart enough to wait until an el train was going by in order to cover the noise. Now, is the kid smart, or is he dumb?

Front 151

NINE:

Well, the woman across the el tracks saw the murder through the el train, so someone in that el train could have seen the murder, too.

Back 151

A possibility, but no one did that we know of.

Front 152

NINE:

It would take an awfully dumb man to take that chance, doing the murder as the train went by.

Back 152

Exactly. A dumb man, a very stupid man, a man swept up by emotion. Probably he heard nothing; he probably didn't even hear the train coming. And whoever did murder the father did as well as he could.

Front 153

FOUR:

So?

Back 153

The kid is dumb enough to do everything to associate himself with the switch knife - a switch knife murder - and then a moment later he becomes smart. The kid is smart enough to make a kind of wound that would lead us to suspect someone else, and yet at the same instant he is dumb enough to do the killing as an el train is going by, and then a moment later he is smart enough to wipe fingerprints away. To make this boy guilty you have to say is dumb from eight o'clock until about midnight and then about midnight he is smart one second, then dumb for a few seconds and then once again he becomes stupid, so stupid that he does not think of a good alibi. Now is this kid smart or is he dumb? To say that he is guilty, you have to toss his intelligence like a pancake. There is doubt, doubt, doubt.

Front 154

FOUR:

I hadn't thought of that.

Back 154

And the old man downstairs. On the stand he swore that it was fifteen seconds; he insisted on fifteen seconds, but we all agree it must have been almost forty seconds.

Front 155

NINE:

Does the old man lie half the time and then does he tell the truth for the other half of the time?

Back 155

For the kid to be guilty he must be stupid, then smart, then stupid and then smart and so on, and also, for the kid to be guilty the old man downstairs must be a liar half of the time and the other half of the time he must tell the truth.
You can reasonably doubt.

Front 156

SIX:

I wanted more talk, and now I've had it.

Back 156

I want another vote.

Front 157

THREE:

That's right. As far as I'm concerned, that's the most important testimony.

Back 157

All right. Let's go over her testimony. What exactly did she say?

Front 158

FIVE:

Not a chance.

Back 158

Can't you see the clock without your glasses?

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FOUR:

Glasses are a nuisance, aren't they?

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Well, what do you do all do when you wake up at night and want to know what time it is?

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FOUR:

I just lie in bed and wait for the clock to chime. My father gave it to me when we married, my husband and I. It was ten years before we had a place to put it.

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Do you wear your glasses to bed?

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TWO:

Of course not. No one wears eyeglasses to bed.

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The woman who testified that she saw the killing wears glasses. What about her?

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FOUR:

Funny. I never thought of that.

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I think it's logical to say that she was not wearing her glasses in bed, and I don't think she'd put them on to glance casually out the window... She testified that the murder took place the instant she looked out, and that the lights went out a split second later. She couldn't have had time to put on her glasses then. Now perhaps this woman honestly thought she saw the boy kill his father. I saw that she only saw a blur.

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THREE:

How do you know what she saw? Maybe she's far-sighted... How does he know all these things?

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Does anyone think there still is not a reasonable doubt?

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THREE:

I think he's guilty!

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Does anyone else?

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FOUR:

No. I'm convinced now. There is a reasonable doubt.

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You're alone.

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THREE:

I don't care whether I'm alone or not! I have a right...

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Yes, you have a right.

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THREE:

Well, I told you. I think the kid's guilty. What else do you want?

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Your arguments.

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THREE:

I gave you my arguments.

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We're not convinced. We're waiting to hear them again. We have time.

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FOUR:

I'm sorry, I'm convinced. I don't think I'm wrong often, but I guess I was this once. There is a reasonable doubt in my mind.

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We're waiting...

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THREE:

You're not going to intimidate me! I'm entitled to my opinion! It's gonna be a hung jury! That's it!

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There's nothing we can do about that except hope that some night, maybe in a few months, why, you might get some sleep.

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THREE:

All right!

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They're waiting. Not guilty.

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Five: Just what are we timing?

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Yes, let's be exact please.