I gives me great ironic pleasure to do this.. *dark

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Racism = *fear. Great movie.

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one of my favorite bits of trivia about this movie is this scene.

begley's character does exactly what e.g. marshall told him to do.

once he sits down, he doesn't say a single word for the rest of the film.

This was recently remade in Russia as the film 12. Which I really enjoyed. In the Russian version the young boy is a Chechen teenager accused of killing his Russian Military father.

I'm so glad I was required to watch this in high school. It's a cinema classic that you must see if you haven't!

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True story: I was on a jury in Boston two years ago give or take. The case was a drug related thing where the defendant was being accused of driving a car during a drug deal. There was no evidence found on him (no money, drugs, or anything), we were also not told the relationship between the driver and the people who were found with drugs. The case was exceptionally weak and basically we were told he was guilty by association.

I tried to illustrate that we really didn't know the relationship between them and knew nothing about this man and while not necessarily likely, the drug dealers could have just been acquaintances who asked for a ride and he didn't know that a deal was going down. As an example I told a story about a wedding I went to a few years before that: the wedding was in another state and I was asked to give a ride to a guy who I didn't know at all. During the ride, the guy pulled out some coke and started doing it right there in the car. Would I be guilty of possession or transporting drugs across state lines?

Most of the jurors were persuaded by this, but one of them actually turned to me and say, "just look at him, he just looks like a drug dealer." For the record, the man was a young Asian man with a shaved head and a tattoo peeking out from under his collar. Other than that, we didn't know anything about him.

Clearly that woman was just not understanding the point of evidence and the exercise of the jury weighing the evidence given. Believe it or not, her argument turned some of the people back over once she started to say that she wasn't being racist and was just not convinced that it was "reasonable" that he wasn't a drug dealer.

This process was one of the most depressing moments of my life and made me realize that juries can be exceptionally flawed when people aren't educated and don't understand logic.

A Very good movie.. Reminds me another old Fonda movie called THE OXBOW INCIDENT

I was trying to find something to show my class as we are working on argumentation and reasoning and this seems like just the thing to get them where they need to be. Thanks @rasch187 !