The Juror

Based on works read this year, the immense idea that man is naturally based on evil appears in Lord of the Flies by (William Golding) Ralph, the antagonist demonstrates evil by abandoning his school mates and breaks off into own “kill or be killed” world. The Lottery by (Shirley Jackson) where civilians of a strange town tend to sacrifice their own to make a good harvest. The final work, Twelve Angry Men by (Reginald Rose). In the last chapter of Lord of the Flies Ralph starts to understand…

In the year 399 B.C Socrates was brought before a jury of about 500 of his peers and sentenced to death. His crimes were impiety, worshiping new gods, and corrupting the youth of Athens. it is seemingly unusual that these crimes would lead to a death sentence especially since Athens was a democracy that prided itself greatly on freedom of speech, and technically all that Socrates did was talk. But after reading the history of the years surrounding Socrates death it is not at all difficult to…

of the child on the mother. These arguments persisted by the state and the defense for five days until they both delivered their closing arguments. After the jurors were instructed by the judge, and the lawyers made adaptations to the indictment, the jurors went back into the jury room to begin deliberating. After a day in a half, the juror came out of the jury room and the lawyers were summoned along with the defendant to hear the decision. The decision, delivered by the foreperson, was that…

Compare and Contrast Essay of To Kill a Mockingbird and To Kill a Mockingbird Court Battles A man’s life can be saved or put to shambles by a jury in the court of law. That is why the courts appoint a lawyer to help defend the accused, and to convince the innocence of their client to the jury. In 12 Angry Men and in the book To Kill a Mocking Bird, we find two really noble men, who fight for the truth. Mr. Davis, from 12 Angry Men, and Atticus, from To Kill a Mockingbird, fought for the truth,…

rights of African-Americans because there was a “war” based on race. The “secret weapon” in the case was Brigance, he was raised as the “bad guy” who looked down upon African-Americans. Brigance can think like the enemy, to help “convenience” the jurors understand the cause of the murder and set Hailey free. However, early on Brigance uses the murder case as an opportunity to show case his talent as an attorney instead of helping Hailey. In a television interview Brigance states “until we can…

When an individual is blamed for murder, it is hard to provide proof that the individual did not commit the crime. In the case of Adnan Syed, he was convicted of the murder of Hae Min Lee, Adnan's ex-girlfriend, however, the jury should have acquitted Adnan because there was insufficient amount of evidence to prove Adnan murdered Hae, Adnan's lawyer did not present all the facts needed to prove Adnan is not guilty, and many of the claims made by the prosecutor are circumstantial. Adnan Syed…

[him] worship” (Eumenides , Line 725). In similar fashion, before the jurors vote Athena herself exclaims to the jurors, “I am always for the male” (Eumenides , Line 737). In addition, the ballot vote for Orestes’ fate was, “In equal number for each side” (Eumenides , Line 751), perhaps the amount of jurors was another coy by Athena to choose the verdict that would align with her prejudices. Among the threats and biases, the jurors of Athens also renounced justice. However, their immorality…

findings of this study might not be generalizable because the study was demographically restricted. Another limitation of this study is that the conceptualization of confidence included both verbal and nonverbal behaviors (Cramer et al., 2011). Although the age range of the participants of this study was broad and their ethnic backgrounds were not very diverse, the participant pool did contain Hispanic, African American, and five participants identifying as other ethnicities. For future…

jury selection process the prosecution eliminated all the black prospective jurors by use of peremptory strikes. Snyder then appealed his conviction and petitioned for a writ of certiorari, and upon review it was held by the Supreme Court that the prosecutor’s reasons for striking prospective black jurors were pretext for racial discrimination which resulted in a reverse. Along with the right to counsel, the defendant also has the right to a public trial, which includes every stage of the trial.…

on numerous workplace violence cases. Levin clarifies the publics misunderstanding of an individual either being convicted or not convicted of a crime due to insanity. Levin describes how American jurors shy away from finding someone guilty or not guilty by reason of insanity. Levin argues many jurors (as well as the public) have the misunderstanding that finding someone guilty or not guilty by reason of insanity will release the individual into public. Levin argues most convicted by reason of…