Part 1: 5A

As the jurors learn in the play, “the facts” are all about how you perceive them. It’s only once you look at them from many different angles that you can draw an accurate conclusion. The jurors had only really considered the facts as the prosecution portrayed them- until Juror 8 drew their attention to different interpretations. For example, when they were discussing the kid’s alibi, the jurors took the facts that the kid had no stub and that the employees didn’t recognize him to mean that he couldn’t have been there. Juror 8 then pointed out that “maybe the reason the cashier didn’t see him was because he sneaked into the movies, and maybe he was ashamed to say so”, he even asked the jurors if “there [is] anybody here who didn’t sneak into the movies once or twice when they were young”, which nobody really denied (Rose 24). How the jurors perceived the facts was up to them, but it was only once they considered other sides of the story that they were finally able to reach a decisive conclusion.