![]() ![]() A man like this needs to be recognized, to be listened to, to be quoted just once. Nobody knows him, nobody quotes him, nobody seeks his advice after seventy-five years. “This is a quiet, frightened, insignificant old man who has been nothing all his life, who has never had recognition, his name in the newspapers. He gambled for support and I gave it to him.” “Well, it's not easy to stand alone against the ridicule of others. ![]() He's had a pretty terrible sixteen years. He spent a year and a half in an orphanage while his father served a jail term for forgery. You know-living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine. ![]() “Look, this boy's been kicked around all his life. We nine can't understand how you three are still so sure. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it's sure. But we have a reasonable doubt, and this is a safeguard that has enormous value in our system. We may be trying to return a guilty man to the community. “Nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant is innocent, but we're just gambling on probabilities. “There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.” And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth.” “It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. “Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.” “It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.” ![]()
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