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  "text": "8th Juror: It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth. Well, I don't think any real damage has been done here. Because I don't really know what the truth is. No one ever will, I suppose. Nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant is innocent, but we're just gambling on probabilities. We may be wrong. We may be trying to return a guilty man to the community. No one can really know. But we have a reasonable doubt, and this is the safeguard that has enormous value in our system. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it's sure.",
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      "text": "11th Juror: I beg pardon, in discussing-\n\n10th Juror: I beg pardon. What are you so damn polite about?\n\n11th Juror: For the same reason you're not. It's the way I was brought up.",
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      "text": "10th Juror: What do you want?\n\n8th Juror: Nothing. I just want to talk.\n\n7th Juror: Well, what's there to talk about? Eleven men here agree. Nobody had to think twice about it, except you.\n\n10th Juror: I want to ask you something. Do you believe his story?\n\n8th Juror: I don't know whether I believe it or not. Maybe I don't.\n\n7th Juror: So what'd you vote \"not guilty\" for?\n\n8th Juror: There were eleven votes for \"guilty.\" It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.\n\n7th Juror: Who says it's easy for me?\n\n8th Juror: No one.\n\n7th Juror: What, just because I voted fast? I think the guy's guilty. You couldn't change my mind if you talked for a hundred years.\n\n8th Juror: I'm not trying to change your mind. It's just that we're talking about somebody's life here. I mean, we can't decide in five minutes. Suppose we're wrong?",
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