Reflection Paper On 12 Angry Men

The movie “12 Angry Men” opens to the jury room and fills with twelve juries’ arguments and complain over the murder case. The case was about whether an eighteen year old boy should be found guilty or not guilty about his action. He was accused of killing his father by stabbing him with a knife. The boy’s life is depended on the twelve juries, and those juries are gathered in all different work fields with a little knowledge in criminal justice. The juries began its deliberations; they started to vote and all the jury vote “guilty” except for one, voted “not guilty”. The discussion began when they started to go around the table and explained the reasons for their votes to convince the one jury who voted “not guilty”. During the discussion, I have found that there were things went wrong and right in criminal justice.
Through the discussion, I learned the facts about the case: an old man lives underneath the boy and his father and he heard a fight upstairs, the boy said “I’m gonna kill you” and a body dropped to the ground. The old man saw the boy running downstairs. During the trial, the boy claimed that he had been in the movie theater while his father was murdered, but couldn’t remember a thing about the movie, not even the name of the movie. A woman living across the street, testified that she saw the …show more content…
He was right about this. This follows into the first amendment, freedom of speech. We are allowed to say things that won’t harm the society or group. “I’m gonna kill you” this phrase we have said it often to express our feelings when really we don’t mean it. But if you are shouting fire in the movie theater, when really there is no fire, then it’s not okay because people would likely lead to panic and may get hurt while trying to escape the theater. The first amendment is a matter of public