Juror #8: It's always difficult to keep personal prejudice
out of a thing like this. And wherever you run into it, prejudice always
obscures the truth. I don't really know what the truth is. I don't suppose
anybody will ever really know. Nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant
is innocent, but we're just gambling on probabilities - we may be wrong. We may
be trying to let a guilty man go free, I don't know. Nobody really can. But we
have a reasonable doubt, and that's something that's very valuable in our
system. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it's sure.
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