Case Details 1
How old is the defendant?
18 years old
What is the defendant on trial for?
Murdering his father
The group of people that decide the verdict are called _______.
Jurors
What is the defendants punishment if found guilty?
Death by electric chair.
What is the final verdict from the jurors?
12-0 Not guilty
What was the alleged murder weapon and where was it found?
A switchblade that happens to be the same model the defendant claims to have lost.
How many people "witnessed" the crime?
Two people
What part of the Constitution is the 6th amendment apart of?
Bill of Rights
What was the jury's initial preliminary verdict?
1-11 Guilty
What are the three reasons as to why some of the jurors are automatically biased against the defendant?
He is from the slum, is deemed to be "one of them", and has a previous criminal record.
Where did the defendant claim to be at the time of murder?
At the movie theater
What part of the city is the defendant from?
The slums
How are the jurors picked for a trial and how many are picked?
A random select group of 12 people that aren't involved and don't know anyone involved in the case are picked.
Is the knife from the crime one of a kind? What evidence proves your answer?
No, it is not and in fact was found to be sold 6 blocks from defendants apartment.
Why does Juror #7 decide to change his verdict?
He wants to get the trial over with so he can catch a baseball game.
Where has the defendant lived most of his life?
In an orphanage
What two reasons made the testimony of the neighbor across the street questionable?
She claimed to witness it through the window of the train, and she has poor eyesight and is thought to not have been wearing her glasses when it happened.
Guarantees right to _______ jury.
Impartial
What year was the movie released?
1957
Why was Juror #3 almost dead set to convict the defendant guilty?
He had an abusive and estranged relationship with his son and was taking his anger out on the defendant.
How does the defendant claim to have lost his knife?
He claims it must have fell out of a hole in his pocket.
What two reasons made the testimony of the downstairs neighbor questionable?
He had claimed to hear someone say "I'm going to kill you" while the train whistle was going off, and claimed to see the boy running down the stairs 15 seconds later despite having a limp that made it difficult to travel in that amount of time from his apartment to the stairwell.
Guarantees right to a ______ and ______ trial.
speedy and public
What could have been the reason the defendant doesn't remember the name of the movie theater or the movies he watched?
He had been traumatized that night and the names had been completely erased from his memory.
Which juror was the only one in the beginning who believed there was reasonable doubt in the case?
Juror #8.