Haylee Hulse Ms. Bryce Honors English Period 2 The Innocent I never thought I’d change my vote, but they made me believe. In this jury, everything seemed to point towards the boy being guilty, but one juror would not let this boy go to jail without giving him a fair trial. Juror 8 is the definition of an optimistic person. He decided that even though everything pointed obviously towards the bad, that he was going to look at the good. He wanted to give this boy a fair chance without even knowing him. Juror 8 gives some very valid points which lead me to believe that the boy is not guilty; some of those points being: first, the old man in the apartment would not have made it to the door in time and he couldn’t have heard it, and second, the lady across the street wouldn’t have had her glasses on and she saw the murder through 2 moving train cars. Juror 8 is the one to bring up the issue of the man not being able to make it to the door. “He had to get up out of bed, got his canes, walk twelve feet, open the bedroom door, walk forty-three feet and open the front door-all in fifteen seconds. Do you think that’s possible?” (Act 2, Page 39) After bringing up this issue, he …show more content…
“It’s a very awkward thing to stab down into the chest of someone who’s half a foot taller than you are.” (Act 3, Page 54) The boy is an experienced knife fighter and would not have made that stab wound. However, this leads me to believe the boy was smart enough to make a stab that looks amateur enough to make it seem as though he was not the one to stab his father. Another reason the boy might be guilty of murdering his father is that he claimed he was at the movies but could not remember what movie he watched and the cashier at the theatre did not remember the boy. This kid was faking an alibi because he really was the one to kill his father. Even with this evidence proving the boy may be guilty, I still firmly believe the boy is not