My name is Roland Maddy Jones. I am really excited to begin the next phase of educational career here at Baruch College. I hope to specialize in Healthcare Policy. I recently graduated from Lehman College with a Bs degree in Healthcare Administration. I have worked in education, social work and sports management. I currently work as a Waiver Service Provider for a childcare agency. I am of African descent (Liberia). I look forward to an engaging experience here at Baruch.
Month: August 2016
“12 Angry Men”
There were a lot of varied emotions portrayed in this movie “12 Angry Men”. These emotions were portrayed throughout the entire movie, from the very beginning of the movie to the very last scene of the movie. The Jurors discussions started out with juror #1 took charge to set the rules as to how they were going to vote and the order in which they were even going to be seated to the order in which they were going to take turns in speaking. From this setup the juror #1 encourage a sort of democratic style of leadership by encouraging the other to voice out what they were thinking and think might work better.
It seems all the jurors were in some sort of hurry to cast their vote so they can be done with that and get to a more important business. All the jurors except juror #8 who cast his first vote by not just basing his decision on only the facts that were presented to them in the court room. All the others had their mind made up without much thought to how substantial the evidence presented were.
It was because of the boldness of juror #8 that logical reasoning was applied to come to the final unanimous NOT GUILTY verdict by the jurors. It is sad to say if juror #8 was not part of this juror group there will not have been any other form of deliberation in favor of the young boy.
I am not sure how the deliberation would have gone had it been a different crowd as the jurors for this case, in terms of gender, social class, race and marital status. Would it have been different? Maybe or maybe not. What I am sure of is that all it took was one bold and willing juror to make the difference from what started out as 11:1 in favor of the boy being guilty to 0:12 in favor of the boy not being guilty. In my opinion there were 2 leaders in this jurors. The one who led them to the best logical reasoning decision and the one who made sure some rules were in place.