Great Movie Quote About Juries
In Anatomy of a Murder (1959), the parties are waiting for a jury to return a verdict in a murder trial in small town Upper Peninsula Michigan, nervously passing the time. The old lawyer who has been helping the Jimmy Stewart character leans back, looks at the ceiling, and says:
Twelve people go off into a room... Twelve different minds, twelve different hearts, twelve different walks of life. Twelve sets of eyes, ears, shapes, and sizes. These twelve people are asked to judge another human being as different from them as they are from each other. And in their judgment, they must become of one mind, unanimous. That's one of the miracles of man's disorganized soul that they can do it... and in most instances, do it right well. [Pause] God bless juries.
Twelve people go off into a room... Twelve different minds, twelve different hearts, twelve different walks of life. Twelve sets of eyes, ears, shapes, and sizes. These twelve people are asked to judge another human being as different from them as they are from each other. And in their judgment, they must become of one mind, unanimous. That's one of the miracles of man's disorganized soul that they can do it... and in most instances, do it right well. [Pause] God bless juries.
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