Personal short comment : If there are people, there will be transactions, if there are people, there will be weaknesses, and if there are systems, there will be flaws. The film deftly rethinks the plausible jury system. The fraught court battles accuse the proliferation of guns in the United States. The wrestling of the three parties is full of tension, and the sense of rhythm is just right!
1. What is the jury system?
In short , the jury system refers to a system in which a certain number of citizens who have the right to vote participate in deciding whether a suspect is to be prosecuted or not. U.S. law states that every adult U.S. citizen has the duty to serve on a jury. However, those who are under the age of 21, who do not live in the country, who do not speak English, who have hearing impairments, and who have previous convictions are not eligible to serve as jurors.
It is said that the jury system originated in ancient Greece and is a way to achieve justice based on the civil contract. The ancient Greek politician Solon once set up a civil jury court called "Herie". The Athenian citizens over the age of 30 are elected, and then take turns to participate in the trial of the case in a certain order, and the trial results are voted by the jury judges. In 1166, King Henry II of England established the original form of the modern jury in the Clarington Edict, and the jury system was established and has continued to this day. Later, with the victory of the American Revolutionary War, the United States continued and developed the traditional British jury system to a great extent, forming the jury system we see today. That is to say, the jury system is not a certain system. The head-beating decision of one or a certain group of people is a system that has passed the test of time and the accumulation of history. Its existence has its own unique rationality in the common law system.
2. Is the jury system reasonable?
"Did you think those ordinary jurors were King Solomon? No! He's just an ordinary guy with a loan, and when he gets home, he's lying on the couch waiting for cable to brainwash them, and he doesn't care at all. What truth, justice, not to mention the true meaning of the American ideal." - Blue Gold
First of all, it is reasonable to exist, but the system will have its flaws! For example, in the film, the gun company hired the famous jury screening consultant Lan Jin, who secretly manipulated the jury candidates from the beginning, and then conducted a detailed background investigation on the selected jury members, and found that most of the jury members had Weaknesses, heinous use of these weaknesses to threaten them, so as to manipulate the jury, influence their votes, and decide the final verdict. This kind of manipulation of the jury affects the fairness of the jury system! This film discusses the rationality of the existence of the jury system, and accuses the jury screening team that came into being in order to control the jury, the existence of gray and even black!
In the film, not only the jury screening team interferes, influences and even manipulates the jury personnel, but also raises another question about the jury system! For example, what about some of the members of the jury who were seditious? Or is it purposeful and predisposed to begin with? Or do you have ulterior motives from the very beginning to make yourself selected for a jury in a certain case through various means and methods? Thinking about it is really thoughtful and terrifying! Nick, the protagonist of the film, is such an existence! He entered the jury through his own series of methods, and to a large extent influenced and attracted many members of the jury to surround him, and dealt with the plaintiff and the defendant, affecting the final result of the trial. Fortunately, Nick has always been on the side of justice. The purpose of his admission to the jury is to indict the legality of private gun ownership. However, if someone with ulterior motives enters the jury, then the consequences cannot be imagined!
3. Justice is worth defending!
In the film, the plaintiff's lawyer boldly rebuked the gun company for selling guns to citizens, and caused many innocent lives to be killed by gunfire. For the sake of justice and for the result, he once complained loudly in court, stopped fighting against jury screening consultants, and spoke out about the importance of social justice! Although he has also walked into gray areas, such as agreeing to bribe jury members, he eventually gave up because he believed in justice.
Because of the plaintiff's lawyer, because of Nick and his girlfriend, such people of justice exist, even in the face of a powerful oligarch, justice can still be done.
In extraordinary times, it is wrong to manipulate the jury, but in order to achieve justice and to defeat the oligarchic forces behind him, Nick had to do this when he was being soft-spoken.
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