12 Angry Men
...at the trial of a young boy accused of murdering his father. The evidence brought forth in the trial is the testimony of an old man who lives in the apartment about the boy’s, a switchblade knife, the boy’s sketchy alibi, and the eyewitness testimony of a woman who lives across from the boy’s apartment building. With the evidence making the boy appear guilty, a single juror questions the accuracy of the evidence and tries to implant reasonable doubt within the other jurors.
The testimony of the old man that lives in the apartment about the boy’s seems to be believable. The old man testified that he had heard what sounded like a fight coming from the boy’s apartment and heard the boy tell his father that he was going to kill him. Furthermore, the old man that says that he heard a body hit the floor, and when he made it to the door, he saw the boy running down the stairs. As realistic as the old man’s testimony sounds, juror number eight questions the old man’s accuracy. The first point the juror makes is that the old man has a bum leg. The juror demonstrates how long it would take the old man to get to the door dragging his leg. This demonstration proves that the old man could not have made it to the door in the amount of time he proclaimed in his testimony. In addition, juror number eight recalls another testimony given in court. A woman stated that she witnessed the murder through the two last cars of a train. Giving the amount of time it takes a train to pass a given point and the extremely loud noise the train makes the old man, more likely than not, could not hear what was occurring in the downstairs apartment as well as he declared. The juror who questioned the old man’s testimony provided some reasonable doubt about the old man’s credibility.
The switchblade knife that was used to stab the boy’s father was...
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