Twelve Angry Men: Law And Justice

Law and Justice are such things that usually meant to be together, but there are many cases when they are not. In such cases people have right to defend themselves or their right to be protected by law. There are two important characteristics of human to defend himself and win in such cases. The first and most important one is honesty. The second one is persistence. It will help person to fight till the end. The person, who is not persistent, can be defeated without any real facts.

There are many different cases described in literature and even in movies that explicitly show the importance of being persistent and honest to be able to be protected by law. This refers to each element of the chain of justice. Every lower, juror, witness and even every defendant should comply with honor and persistence. Only if the whole chain works this way, we may be sure that we have society that is ruled by law and the law can protect us.

One good example of model of juror we can meet in movie “Twelve Angry Men”(1957). This movie is about persistence as a model of behavior for juror if he is not sure in guiltiness of the defendant. In the movie, having nearly unanimous decision of guilty at the beginning of deliberations of the jury on a homicide trial, their decision was changed by a single dissenter of not guilty. The single dissenter of not guilty was the 8th juror, who throughout the play sows a seed of reasonable doubt. At first he is trying to defend the defendant, who is not guilty in his opinion. But after, he is trying to defend himself and to prove that he is right. He is a very persistent person, which helps him to prove everybody that the boy is not guilty. There were jurors, who were asking him just to vote guilty, because 11 jur...

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...enue Committee and has shown that in more than 55 700 cases the Committee applied wrong policy and collected more taxes than it was supposed by law. This case shows that public unawareness let the Committee to operate wrong. Sergey’s honor did not let him to agree when they suggested him to pay less. He went through the case to show that the law can protect everyone. Also, there was a good saying in Michael Mullane’s writing: “The minute enough of us stop believing, stop insisting that the law protect us all, and that every single one of us is accountable to the law – in that moment, the rule of law will be gone.”(Michael 2006)

In conclusion, honor and persistence together with right for defense are the important keys for using law to protect ourselves from injustice and public awareness is the power that may help to use that keys by every element in justice system.