Ep. 28: 12 Angry Men
Cinema of Meaning
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Diversity on a Jury
Williams: As a non-American happy questioning the entire value of this kind of jury system where all these random citizens can come in and decide over the faith of someone who stands trial. It seems like it's so much of the verdict then depends on the kind of people you bring into a jury I recently saw the there's a movie coming out on Emmett Till which is the famous story or infamous I guess the murder of this young African American child whose killers weren't prosecuted most likely because the jury was all white. The one character who also grew up in the slums as the defendant is as they keep repeating yeahWhich immediately shows how meaningful it is to have a jury that has some
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