ice system. Juries today fail to adequately assess the case, instead focusing on racial prejudices much like the one juror in the movie. The line They cant help it, it is just who they are, describing the entire Hispanic population, shows striking resemblance to the inequality issues we face today. It seems extremely difficult for any person with the strong convictions that Henry Fonda carried to hold their ground against a group. The feeling of becoming an outcast scares too many people into conforming to an easy decision made not on truth, but on apathy. I think that in todays society people are much less likely to be concerned for the welfare of people that they do not know. The truth is often masked in a web of unimportant statements that are used in a courtroom to distract jurors. The councils make the assumption that the jurors are not competent, and cannot see what really happened. Although this is wrong, the aforementioned apathy is why nothing is done about this issue...
