Topic > Comparison between the Conrad Murray trial and Twelve Angry Men

Arguably, one of the most important jurors in history is Juror Eight. The initial vote count was 11 to 1 in favor of guilty with juror eight being 1, the final vote was 12 to 0 with the verdict of not guilty. Juror Eight looks at all the evidence in a different way and asks questions that make the others do a double take. If Juror Eight were on the jury in the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, and if there was any reasonable doubt, he would most likely think that Dr. Murray was not guilty. From the play, Juror Eight says that, “As far as I know, we should decide whether the boy on trial is guilty or not. We don't worry about anyone else's motivations here." (Rose 9). He's right, they're only there to decide if the boy is guilty of killing his father, nothing else. That boy has already done many illegal things, but he is only on trial for killing his father. This is not a murder mystery; they don't need to find the real killer, that's the job of politics. Like in the play, Dr. Murray did a lot of illegal things and that's one hundred percent true, but the trial was only to determine whether or not he gave Jackson the final lethal dose of Propofol. There was a lot of discussion about whether or not Jackson injected himself with Propofol. But the fact is that Dr. Murray should not have given Jackson Propofol as a sleeping pill. However, as stated before, the