Comparing Conrad Murray Trial And Twelve Angry Men

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Innocent until proven guilty. This is a saying people use to basically say that until proof has been found, they didn’t do it. In court this is very true, one needs evidence to prove someone’s guilt or innocence. In the end, it’s the jury who makes the call. A jury is made up of all different people from all different backgrounds. Every person brings a different opinion and a different backstory to the jury table. In both the Conrad Murray trial and the play Twelve Angry Men, the jurors had to decide whether or not a man was guilty of murder. In both cases, the jurors most likely had previous opinions that could conceivably sway their decisions. Ultimately, on any court case, is difficult to get everyone on the jury to agree.
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Arguably, one of the most important jurors in the story is Juror Eight. The vote count in the beginning was 11 to 1 in favor of guilty with Juror Eight being the 1, the ending vote was 12 to 0, with the verdict being not guilty. Juror Eight looks at all the evidence in a different way and asks questions that make the others do a double take. If Juror Eight was on the jury for the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, and if there is any reasonable doubt, he would most likely think Dr. Murray was not guilty. From the play, Juror Eight says that, “As far as I know, we’re suppose to decide whether or not the boy on trial is guilty. We’re not concerned with anyone else’s motives here.” (Rose 9). He makes a very good point, they are only there to decide if the boy is guilty for killing his father, nothing else. That boy has done many illegal things before but he is only on trial for killing his father. This isn’t a murder mystery; they don’t need to find the actual killer, that’s the policies’ job. Like the play, Dr. Murray did do many illegal things and that is one hundred percent true, but the trial was only to determine whether or not he gave Jackson that last lethal dose of Propofol. There was a big discussion about whether or not Jackson injected himself with Propofol. But the fact is Dr. Murray should not have been giving Jackson Propofol as a sleeping aid. However as stated before, the

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