1:17:07
lt´s always difficult to keep personal
prejudice out of a thing like this.
1:17:12
Wherever you run into it,
prejudice always obscures the truth.
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l don´t really know what the truth is.
1:17:20
l don´t suppose anybody
will ever really know.
1:17:24
Nine of us now seem to feel
that the defendant is innocent.
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But we´re just gambling on
probabilities. We may be wrong.
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We may be trying to let a guilty man
go free. l don´t know. Nobody really can.
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But we have a reasonable doubt.
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And that´s something
that´s very valuable in our system.
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No jury can declare a man guilty
unless it´s sure.
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We nine can´t understand
how you three are still so sure.
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- Maybe you can tell us.
- l´ll try.
1:17:59
You´ve made some excellent points,
but l still believe the boy is guilty.
1:18:03
l have two reasons. One: the evidence
given by the woman across the street,
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who actually saw the murder committed.
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That´s the most important testimony.
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And two: the fact that
she described the stabbing
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by saying she saw the boy
raise his arm over his head
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and stab down into the father´s chest.
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- She saw him do it, the wrong way.
- That´s absolutely right.
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Let´s talk about this woman for a moment.
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She said she went to bed
about eleven o´clock that night.
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Her bed was next to the window,
and she could look out
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and see directly into
the boy´s room across the street.
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She tossed and turned for over an hour.
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Finally, she turned toward the window
at about 10 minutes after 12,
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and as she looked out, she saw the killing
through the windows of a passing el train.
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She said the lights went out
after the killing,
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but that she got a good look at the boy
in the act of stabbing his father.
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As far as l can see it,
this is unshakeable testimony.