The Runaway Jury

• In the legal context of the movie we have a case which involves a widow who is suing a gun manufacturer because her husband was killed in an office massacre involving an easily-obtained weapon. Throughout the movie we see that prior to this case there has been a handful of cases brought to this gun manufacturer and how their guns which they produce is sold in the black market or on the streets easily and also in store easily. The problem was how the gun manufacture never investigated how customers were coming to buy multiple automatic guns and it was never looked into. To help them win the gun manufactures hire Fitch who with their money buys some insurance by way of bribery and pressure on several of the jurors. Although this was typical …show more content…
Although there is an illegal investigation on the jurors in this movie organized by Finch, there is common equivalence between jury selections from Runaway Jury to actual real-life jury selection. Defense attorneys would try to find non-compassion jurors that would not care about the howl stories from the widow, just like Finch did in Runaway Jury. This is done by a sequence of questions to each potential juror; however, that is only how far attorneys in real life will investigate jurors. Unlike Runaway Jury, attorneys do not conduct illegal, immoral, and invasive investigations in real-life jury selection. I also learned that there are still good people out here because Rohr could have paid the money but he decided to go about the decision the right way and not involve his self in those non-ethical manner that the gun manufactures were doing. I also learned that sometimes you have to play the system in your favor because the law isn’t always sympatric to the right thing. Although giving the grieving woman the reward and showing that the gun manufactures were in the wrong according to the Law they really didn’t do anything wrong, but the right thing to do is point out that they played a part in all of this. I like how the move really showed the difference between law and ethics in my opinion and also moral. Do you give a decision based on the law knowing you’re going against your own ethics and morals you were thought growing up. As a human being if I know right from wrong I shouldn’t just go with the law if I know that a situation is wrong. This was a great movie that speaks a lot of volume and shows that even the justice system is sometimes against the right decision. If you have money and power you can manipulate things in your favor, but that shouldn’t