John Bunn 12 Angry Men

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John Bunn was 14 years old when he was wrongfully convicted of murdering a correctional officer. He was wrongfully convicted with tainted evidence and due to this injustice lost 27 years of his life that he can never get back. In the story 12 Angry Men a young man is tried for murdering his father. If it were not for juror #8 bringing reasonable doubt into the conversation about whether the boy was guilty or else the boy could have ended up like John Bunn and have his life ruined for something he may not have done in the first place. In 12 Angry Men the boy being tried is racially profiled by some of the other jurors. For instance when juror #10 says that those people are born killers and are born with dishonesty in their veins. John Bunn was

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