“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… — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
“Well, it's not easy to stand alone against the ridicule of others. He gambled for support and I gave it to him.” — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
“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… — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
“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… — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
“This is a quiet, frightened, insignificant old man who has been nothing all his life, who has never had recognition, his name in the… — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
“Look, this boy's been kicked around all his life. You know-living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine. He spent a… — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly. — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them. — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
“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… — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
