Jurors Are Not Guilty In 12 Angry Men

One of the most well known and often read plays is Twelve Angry Men, which follows the story of twelve jurors presiding over the case of a young boy who has been accused of murdering his father with a switch knife. These jurors go back and forth arguing over the innocence of the boy throughout the play, but by the end of the play, they reach a unanimous verdict of not guilty.In the play Twelve Angry Men, the final verdict the jurors made, although some may disagree, is the only correct conclusion. This verdict is the only correct decision due to all the discrepancies in evidence and testimonies against the defendant, and the fact that there is almost no proper evidence remaining against the defendant by the end of the play. For those reasons, the defendant is not guilty.

The first testimony is from a witness who is an old man and the testimony is, “A second later he heard a body falling, and he ran to the door of his apartment, looked out and saw the kid running downstairs and out of the house.” (Rose 1.1.18). In this testimony the old man supposedly heard the murder, and then fifteen seconds later the old man makes it from his bedroom to the front door and he sees the young boy running away. The second testimony is from a woman who lived across the street from the defendant. The testimony is summarized by Juror Ten and he says, “Here's a woman who's lying in bed and can't sleep. It's hot, you know. Anyway, she wakes up and she looks out the window, and right across the street she sees the kid stick the knife into his father.” (Rose 1.1.19). To go into a bit more detail, the woman is lying in bed late at night, unable to sleep. Later in the night the woman looks out her window, through the window of an elevated train, and then sees the defendant murder his