I think the boy was guilty of the crime. Even though between the jury there was much speculation about every aspect of the case, I think I would have gone with the original majority and said “guilty.” I think that the men who changed their minds were weak minded and easily persuaded. There will always be variations that take place in the courtroom that can be debated, argued and discussed.
On that same note there will always be things that cannot be reviewed and will never need a second look. One of these things is that the father and son had a trouble history together. Another is that the boy’s father was killed the night they had an argument. Whenever a murder takes place, there is always a murderer or a culprit to the crime. The man
I have yet to mention the fact that the boy failed to answer any questions about what movie he had gone to see. I don’t know too many people who get home from the Movie Theater at three in the morning, but I guess this young man is a very special case. Never mind that anybody who was at the movies that night had recognized him or recalled him coming through there. I would think that being at the movies at such hours of the night would at least allow one person to familiarize his face with one they had seen earlier that night, of course that would be difficult if he was never there.
I would also like to add that the likely hood of someone killing his father in their home with the same knife that he had just acquired and lost, shortly after an argument had taken pla