Question How would you want a juror to treat your trial if you may be sentenced to death? Response Most jurors are average guys, no one really has intentions to go above and beyond. They go to the court trial, quickly decide what the verdict is and it’s basically set in stone once they decide. In the book "Twelve Angry Men," written by Reginald Rose, juror number eight was a hero because he lead the murder case. He walked into the hot miserable room with a different attitude on his shoulders and convinced every other man in the room that there was a reasonable doubt. Juror number 8 walked into the room with a different attitude and put himself in the boys shoes. while eleven other men voted guilty, he was the only juror to vote not guilty as “it’s not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die before talking about it first” (#). He took his own time to walk around the boy’s neighborhood, even walking to the corner store and buying the same switchblade that was used to murder the boy’s father. He looked over already presented case facts and evidence multiple times when no one else wanted to. He found facts that were missed in the court trial, asked other men why they thought the kid was guilty, and tried to convince them otherwise in a calm polite manner. He even went as far as acting out scenes of the case. Halfway into the case he called for another vote and said that if no one else’s vote had changed he would change his vote. Juror number 9 was the only one to change his vote as “it’s not easy to stand against the ridicule of others” (#). He ultimately saved juror number 8 and he was able to go on persuading the 10 other jurors. Juror number 8 convinced every other juror in the room of reasonable doubt. He picked at everything he could, asked anyone if they have ever lived by the el tracks and if so could they have heard the boy scream “I’m going to kill you” and a second later the body of his