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How Did Atticus Finch Win The Trial

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For the trial in To Kill A Mockingbird my character was Atticus Finch. He is a lawyer respected by many in Maycomb County. Tom Robinson didn’t have the funds or the ability to get a good lawyer so the judge decided to assign the case to Atticus Finch. His reasoning was he knew there were many lawyers who would show up and just collect their paycheck, but he knew Atticus Finch was different. He knew that Atticus would fight for Tom Robinson and give him a good case to prove his innocence.

Atticus after a while of getting to know Tom Robinson and started to build a case for him. Atticus soon realized that Tom Robinson was telling the truth and that all of his stories checked out. Like where he worked the route he took to work his family life and such. Atticus realized that Tom Robinson May have a chance to win this case for Tom Robinson. Atticus also knew Tom Robinson was in trouble because many people wanted to attack and harm him, but Atticus wouldn’t let that happen. One night he stayed with Tom Robinson and Atticus and his children were able to talk to the attackers and make them realize that they were good people who should not be doing this. They soon left and Atticus knew what he gotten into, there …show more content…

Atticus knew that he had the respect of people on the jury and he knew that they would defend and help him at all costs. Into the trial Atticus knew it would be rough fighting against the other side going against many many years of history. During the trial Tom Robinson and Atticus were working very well and were winning over the courtroom. As well as the help of numerous people testifying with holes in their stories like “why would you not call a doctor” the opposition had no true evidence. They kept going off of just stories and their word. Knowing that some people would convict Tom Robinson no matter what happens in the

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While in court as a member of the jury, Atticus made me put that lesson to the test. I saw the holes in the prosecution argument but wound up voting that Tom was guilty because my vote would not have made a difference. Atticus proved to me that Mr. Tom Robinson was innocent by making sure we knew all the holes in prosecutors story. All the witnesses had been questioned, and Atticus was giving his closing statement.

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He fairly upholds Tom’s case in court even when the odds are against his client winning. While many other lawyers would scorn representing a black man, Atticus defends Tom Robinson’s with a non-racist view believing that all men should have equal rights in court. Also, he questions both the defense and prosecutor’s witnesses with a very respectful tone while Mr. Gilmer, the prosecutor, harasses the defense’s witnesses but not his own. Furthermore, his friends saw Atticus as a just man. As Miss Maudie, the Finch’s neighbor, remarked, “We’re paying the highest tribute we can pay a man.

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This outburst showed the audience that he wasn't afraid to stand up for himself. In a similar way, Tom Robinson also was not frightened by the trial through questioning him, Atticus desired the audience to know Tom’s previous history with the law to demonstrate that Tom takes precautions on his actions. Albeit, by telling the truth his actions might be immoral but this shows he risks everything to prove his innocence, like Scout, Atticus’s daughter and the main character in To Kill a Mockingbird said; “Atticus was showing the jury that Tom had nothing to hide” (Lee

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Atticus took the case because he thinks that Tom deserves a fair trial, he wants to confront the prejudice of Maycomb, and because of his morals. Atticus wants to give Tom the fairest trial he can have. “There’s been some high talk around town to the effect that I shouldn’t do much about defending this man” (Chapter 9, Page 100). What this implies is that Atticus is aware of the prejudice that is bombarding Tom, even before he enters the courtroom. Knowing that the trial’s outcome is nearly inevitable, Atticus takes the position to give Tom a chance and to ensure that he has the greatest chance of an innocent verdict.

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Lee’s evidence is strong and laid out to persuade the reader that there is no way Robinson will lose. It’s just too obvious that Robinson is only convicted because he’s a black man accused of raping a white

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Atticus also takes on defending an African American. Not many people would do this back then people they were racist and rude. When Atticus took on this case he knew that they didn’t have a shot at winning, but he took it on anyway because he knew it was the right thing to do. The town was rude and disrespectful to Atticus, but Atticus never backed down. Atticus also did his best to defend Tom and overall with all the evidence Tom should not have been guilty.

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Atticus takes the trial knowing the consequence that him and his family will be harrassed by the town because it is the right thing to do. Atticus finch decides to defend Tom Robinson to be a good role model for his children and prove that the “Golden Rule” is a rule to

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When Atticus was asked why he was defending him he said “ If I didn’t I could hold my head up in town, I couldn’t represent this country in the legislature, I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again.” (Lee, Page 78). The people of Maycomb tried to storm the county jail to attack Tom Robinson but Atticus waited overnight and stopped the angry townsfolk from hurting Tom and got in a verbal confrontation with them. In court he tried everything he could to convince the jury Tom was not guilty but they had made up their mind before the trial started which resulted in him being

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