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In the play "Twelve Angry Men", by Sidney Lumet, Every person may have his own way of defining the term "reasonable doubt. The story unfolds as 12 men of a jury are asked to deliberate beyond reason able doubt whether a 16 year old boy knifed his father to death. One jury, number eight, stands alone against 11 others to convince them that the boy is not guilty. There is a witness who said that she saw the murder happen through her window as a train was going past and an old man who said the he heard the thump of the body hitting the floor as someone ran away. Everyone on the jury seems to think that the boy is guilty as all the evidence points to him committing the murder, except for one jury who "just wants to talk". Before he sentences a young man to death, he...

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