12 Angry Men Dialectical Journal

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It’s a daunting place the courtroom, to think this is the same place that criminals get prosecuted, charged for committing murder, domestic violence, there all prosecuted here, so what does that make me? Am I nothing but a murderer or rapist.

I walk into the courtroom, it’s airy, a layer of silence blankets the room, I walk pass Jase's mother, she stares me down, guilt rushes over my body. I know all too well what she thinks of me, and what Jase's situation would be like if I were just to come forward as that third man. I look over to the Lamb, he gives me a reassuring nod, he’s ready to take a bullet for me, go down with a prosecution that could set him back years, and leave a big black mark on his file, the jobs that he could miss out on his future in pieces. I take a good old look at the judge, he’s big broad, looks like he’s been here hundreds of times before, doesn’t piss around.
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The bloke who took a beating from the Lamb comes forward, I get a full look at the destruction that the Lamb had left behind, the crowd sighs in horror as he is helped up to the front to plead his case. This is a set back, this is much worse than what I thought it was, the poor barstad looked as though he had been beaten to within an inch of his life, much worse than the broken jaw that the Lamb had described over the phone. The repercussions that this would cause change significantly, this is jail

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