By law, all 12 jurors are required to unanimously agree on a single verdict.Īs the voting starts in the room, 11 jurors quickly vote “guilty” on the verdict but one juror (Henry Fonda) disagrees and wants to discuss before deciding whether the accused stands guilty. The film is a drama taking a room with 12 jurors sitting to decide whether or not a young guy accused of murder is guilty of the crime. The 1957 film 12 Angry Men by Sideny Lumet is a timeless classic that portrays the essence of why the jury system of justice can fail in serving justice in cases as serious as homicide. And Hollywood has made quite a few good hits that show the jury system’s shortcomings. The rest of the jurors are shocked, but Juror 8 says that he couldn’t sentence a boy to death without discussing it first. The jury system’s inadequacies and failure to provide justice in such sensitive cases is nothing new. Who voted not guilty in the second vote 12 Angry men The twelve men begin by taking a preliminary vote. 12 Angry men come to together in one room for ninety minutes. Only one Republican, Mitt Romney of Utah, the party’s defeated 2012 presidential nominee, broke with the GOP. Guilty Or Not In the film, 12 Angry Men, an 18-year boy was accused of murdering his father.
The second, obstruction of Congress, also produced a not guilty verdict, 53-47. The news of a key Ferguson witness faking her entire testimony before the grand jury has shaken the belief in the grand jury system once again. On the first article of impeachment, abuse of power, the vote was 52-48 favoring acquittal.
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