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* Pavel Young's courtmartial in the HonorHarrington novel ''Field of Dishonor'' had ''half the jury'' acting like this for political reasons, sometimes even blatantly ignoring Manticoran judicial precedent which clearly stated that their logic for finding him innocent was invalid. Eventually the other half of the jury managed to talk them into finding Young guilty of the charges that would get him a dishonorable discharge, but not those that would get him a firing squad, setting the stage for the second half of the book.
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* Pavel Young's courtmartial court martial in the HonorHarrington ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' novel ''Field of Dishonor'' had ''half the jury'' acting like this for political reasons, sometimes even blatantly ignoring Manticoran judicial precedent which clearly stated that their logic for finding him innocent was invalid. Eventually the other half of the jury managed to talk them into finding Young guilty of the charges that would get him a dishonorable discharge, but not those that would get him a firing squad, setting the stage for the second half of the book.
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* Also inverted in an episode of ''SeventhHeaven'', in which one of the main characters of the show persuades a reluctant jury to accept the testimony of the the police and find the defendant guilty.
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* Also inverted in an episode of ''SeventhHeaven'', in which one of the main characters of the show persuades a reluctant jury to accept the testimony of the the police and find the defendant guilty.
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** Note that this requires the jury to declare the law in question to be unconstitutional. In practice, however, the jury can declare the defendant guilty, and then sentence him to time served, to step around the mire of lawfully guilty but morally correct.
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** Of course, jury nullification can be used for evil as well. In the Bad Old Days, white supremicists in the DeepSouth could always count on a "not guilty" verdict if they ever went to trial for murdering a black man.
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Pepper Ann, not King of the Hill.
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** There was another episode about some kid spitting on a security camera. Peggy manages to convince the other jurors that there's too much 'reasonable doubt' to convict him: after all, it could have just been sweat from his brow. At the end of the episode, the kid appears again in a car driving beside Hank's, and seems to spit on his window. But it was probably just the sweat again, right?
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* In ''{{Shameless}}'', Frank Gallagher becomes one when he discovers he can claim extra benefits as long as he is on jury service. From that point onward, he tries to drag the deliberation for as long as possible, continuingly reversing his opinion whenver he cleverly convinces everyone to see things his way.
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* In ''{{Shameless}}'', Frank Gallagher becomes one when he discovers he can claim extra benefits as long as he is on jury service. From that point onward, he tries to drag the deliberation for as long as possible, continuingly continually reversing his opinion whenver he cleverly convinces everyone to see things his way.
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* In ''{{Shameless}}'', Frank Gallagher becomes one when he discovers he can claim extra benefits as long as he is on jury service. From that point onward, he tries to drag the deliberation for as long as possible, continuingly reversing his opinion whenver he cleverly convinces everyone to see things his way.
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** The concept of jury nullification is important in the history of common law; in medieval times, a jury, if present, only served to rubber stamp a judge's verdict. The case that enshrined the supremacy of the jury was William Penn's charge of illegally preaching Quaker sermons; while he had broken the law, and despite the judge threatening to jail the jury, they refused to convict. A following case formally enshrined this right.
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** The concept of jury nullification is important in the history of [[TheCommonLaw common law; law]]; in medieval times, a jury, if present, only served to rubber stamp a judge's verdict. The case that enshrined the supremacy of the jury was William Penn's charge of illegally preaching Quaker sermons; while he had broken the law, and despite the judge threatening to jail the jury, they refused to convict. A following case formally enshrined this right.
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* The TropeCodifier is ''TwelveAngryMen''. A RogueJuror is the sole holdout on a case which appears to indicate fairly straightforwardly that the accused is definitely a murderer. However, as the jury is forced to analyze the evidence in detail, they slowly discover that almost all of it is flawed in some way.
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* The TropeCodifier is ''TwelveAngryMen''. A RogueJuror is the sole holdout on a case which appears to indicate fairly straightforwardly that the accused is definitely a murderer. However, as the jury is forced to analyze the evidence in detail, they slowly discover that almost all of it is flawed in some way. Worth noting that, unlike some other examples, the Rogue Juror isn't 100% convinced of the accused's innocence at first - he just wants to make sure they've done their job properly, as the accused is facing a mandatory death sentence.
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* A memorable episode of ''HeyArnold'' featured this trope almost to the letter, where [[ButtMonkey Eugene]] was on trial for pulling the fire alarm, and Arnold (of course) is the only one who thinks he might be innocent and sucessively disproving the evidence against him. As it turns out, Eugene was framed by Curly, who, as a member of the jury, then proceeds to [[ThePerryMasonMethod flip out and confess to everything]], laughing maniacally all the time.
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* A memorable episode of ''HeyArnold'' featured this trope almost to the letter, where [[ButtMonkey Eugene]] was on trial for pulling the fire alarm, alarm (apparently the school rules state that he can only be expelled if found guilty by a jury of his peers), and Arnold (of course) is the only one who thinks he might be innocent and sucessively disproving the evidence against him. As it turns out, Eugene was framed by Curly, who, as a member of the jury, then proceeds to [[ThePerryMasonMethod flip out and confess to everything]], laughing maniacally all the time.
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* Even an entire ''jury'' can go rogue and declare a defendant not guilty despite waterproof evidence against him/her. This process is known as "jury nullification" and takes place when a defendant is legally wrong but morally right. Indeed, the jury could declare someone guilty with no evidence, but the judge has the right to dismiss a jury or overturn a verdict in this case.
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* Even an entire ''jury'' can go rogue and declare a defendant not guilty despite waterproof evidence against him/her. This process is known as "jury nullification" and takes place when a defendant is legally wrong but morally right.right (or at least sympathetic). Indeed, the jury could declare someone guilty with no evidence, but the judge has the right to dismiss a jury or overturn a verdict in this case.
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the very article for twelve angry men notes that it was not the trope namer
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* The TropeMaker is ''TwelveAngryMen''. A RogueJuror is the sole holdout on a case which appears to indicate fairly straightforwardly that the accused is definitely a murderer. However, as the jury is forced to analyze the evidence in detail, they slowly discover that almost all of it is flawed in some way.
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* The TropeMaker TropeCodifier is ''TwelveAngryMen''. A RogueJuror is the sole holdout on a case which appears to indicate fairly straightforwardly that the accused is definitely a murderer. However, as the jury is forced to analyze the evidence in detail, they slowly discover that almost all of it is flawed in some way.
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* Inverted in the B-plot of the two-part ''{{Cheers}}'' episode "Never Love a Goalie", in which Diane serves on a jury in an assault case filed by a woman against her husband, and Diane is the only one convinced of the defendant's guilt, to the exasperation of the other jurors. Ultimately, the woman drops the charges and the deliberations are ended prematurely, but when the woman and her husband visit Cheers at the end of the episode, Diane manages to provoke the husband into threatening his wife, thereby demonstrating his guilt in front of witnesses.
* Subverted in an episode of the Marlo Thomas-starring sitcom ''That Girl'' (entitled "[[TwelveAngryMen Eleven Angry Men]] and That Girl", though not all of the other jurors are male), in which Thomas' character, Ann Marie, is the lone member of a jury convinced that a man accused of striking his wife with an ashtray is innocent. When a male juror makes a pass at her and she slaps him, she realises that the wife's injuries are on the wrong side of her face for a strike by her right-handed husband. The subversion comes when the husband is acquitted and begins arguing with his wife anew... and grabs a nearby ashtray and hits her across the face ''backhanded'', thereby explaining the anomaly that had persuaded Ann, and the other jurors, to acquit him.
* Subverted in an episode of the Marlo Thomas-starring sitcom ''That Girl'' (entitled "[[TwelveAngryMen Eleven Angry Men]] and That Girl", though not all of the other jurors are male), in which Thomas' character, Ann Marie, is the lone member of a jury convinced that a man accused of striking his wife with an ashtray is innocent. When a male juror makes a pass at her and she slaps him, she realises that the wife's injuries are on the wrong side of her face for a strike by her right-handed husband. The subversion comes when the husband is acquitted and begins arguing with his wife anew... and grabs a nearby ashtray and hits her across the face ''backhanded'', thereby explaining the anomaly that had persuaded Ann, and the other jurors, to acquit him.
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* One episode of the live-action {{Batman}} show had Batman for some unexplained reason (He might know a lot about the law, but he never took the bar exam, nor does he work for the D.A.'s office) acting as the prosecutor in a trial against Joker and Catwoman. The whole jury voted innocent despite the evidence, at which point Robin realized that Joker's lawyer had managed to get the entire jury filled with ex-henchmen of the two criminals. Batman and Robin beat up the crooks, and the trial gets redone. This ignores the fact that both sides of a judicial case are supposed to be screening the jury to be ensure that the jurors aren't prejudiced ''before'' the trial even begins, and a provable close association with the defendants is an automatic disqualification.
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** Note that this requires the jury to declare the law in question to be unconstitutional. In practice, however, the jury can declare the defendant guilty, and then sentence him to time served, to step around the mire of lawfully guilty but morally correct.
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* The TropeMaker is ''TwelveAngryMen''. A RogueJuror is the sole holdout on a case which appears to indicate fairly straightforwardly that the accused is definitely a murderer. However, as the jury is forced to anaylyze the evidence in detail, they slowly discover that almost all of it is flawed in some way.
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* The TropeMaker is ''TwelveAngryMen''. A RogueJuror is the sole holdout on a case which appears to indicate fairly straightforwardly that the accused is definitely a murderer. However, as the jury is forced to anaylyze analyze the evidence in detail, they slowly discover that almost all of it is flawed in some way.
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* Pavel Young's courtmartial in the HonorHarrington novel ''Field of Dishonor'' had ''half the jury'' acting like this for political reasons, sometimes even blatantly ignoring Manticoran judicial precedent which clearly stated that their logic for finding him innocent was invalid. Eventually the other half of the jury managed to talk them into finding Young guilty of the charges that would get him a dishonorable discharge, but not those that would get him a firing squad, setting the stage for the second half of the book.
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* The TropeMaker is ''TwelveAngryMen''. A RogueJuror is the sole holdout on a case which appears to indicate fairly straightforwardly that the accused is definitely a murderer. Hoever, However, as the jury is forced to anaylyze the evidence in detail, they slowly discover that almost all of it is flawed in some way.
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* [[Inverted InvertedTrope]] on ''AmericanDad.'' [[JerkAss Roger]] is on trial and virtually all the evidence points to him being guilty, but he manages to endear himself to everybody except Stan, who's on the jury. Everybody else wants to let him off just because they like him, but Stan forces them to keep reviewing the evidence until they vote guilty just to get him to stop. (They break down crying during the conviction.)
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* [[Inverted InvertedTrope]] [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] on ''AmericanDad.'' [[JerkAss Roger]] is on trial and virtually all the evidence points to him being guilty, but he manages to endear himself to everybody except Stan, who's on the jury. Everybody else wants to let him off just because they like him, but Stan forces them to keep reviewing the evidence until they vote guilty just to get him to stop. (They break down crying during the conviction.)
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*In real life, some trials can be forced to be retried if just one out of the twelve dissented. This has lead to majority verdicts (in England, 10-2) in some countries to solve this problem (but not in the United States).
*Even an entire ''jury'' can go rogue and declare a defendant not guilty despite waterproof evidence against him/her. This process is known as "jury nullification" and takes place when a defendant is legally wrong but morally right. Indeed, the jury could declare someone guilty with no evidence, but the judge has the right to dismiss a jury or overturn a verdict in this case.
**The concept of jury nullification is important in the history of common law; in medieval times, a jury, if present, only served to rubber stamp a judge's verdict. The case that enshrined the supremacy of the jury was William Penn's charge of illegally preaching Quaker sermons; while he had broken the law, and despite the judge threatening to jail the jury, they refused to convict. A following case formally enshrined this right.
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*In real life, some trials can be forced to be retried if just one out of the twelve dissented. This has lead to majority verdicts (in England, 10-2) in some countries to solve this problem (but not in the United States).
*Even an entire ''jury'' can go rogue and declare a defendant not guilty despite waterproof evidence against him/her. This process is known as "jury nullification" and takes place when a defendant is legally wrong but morally right. Indeed, the jury could declare someone guilty with no evidence, but the judge has the right to dismiss a jury or overturn a verdict in this case.
**The concept of jury nullification is important in the history of common law; in medieval times, a jury, if present, only served to rubber stamp a judge's verdict. The case that enshrined the supremacy of the jury was William Penn's charge of illegally preaching Quaker sermons; while he had broken the law, and despite the judge threatening to jail the jury, they refused to convict. A following case formally enshrined this right.
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* On the episode "Samson, He Denied Her" of ''TheNanny'', Fran and C.C. are called for jury duty, and Maxwell hopes it'll take Fran's mind off the fact that he had recently told her he loved her and then took it back. In the trial, the defendant is a housekeeper who is accused of assaulting her boss with a pair of scissors to chop off all his hair, but the trial also reveals that she did it because her boss told her she loved her and then took it back. This prompts Fran to immediately sympathize with the defendant and insist she's not guilty, even after the defendant blurted out a confession on the witness stand. Fran proceeds to drive the other jurors crazy because she refuses to vote guilty.
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* Subverted in ''ThirdRockFromTheSun'' ("11 Angry Men and a Dick") where Dick holds out for innocence on a jury despite the defendant being very obviously guilty. ("Well, Foster SAID he didn't do it. Are you calling him... AND his attorney... a liar?!")
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-->"Well, Foster SAID he didn't do it. Are you callinghim... AND him--AND his attorney... a liar?!")attorney--a liar?!"
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* Subverted in ''ThirdRockFromTheSun'' ("11 Angry Men and a Dick") where Dick holds out for innocence on a jury despite the defendant being very obviously guilty. ("Well, Foster SAID he didn't do it. Are you calling him... AND his attorney... a liar?")
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* Inverted on AmericanDad. Roger is on trial and easily convinces everyone that he's innocent, despite being obviously guilty. Except for Stan, who is on the jury and wont rest until Roger is convicted.
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* Inverted [[Inverted InvertedTrope]] on AmericanDad. Roger ''AmericanDad.'' [[JerkAss Roger]] is on trial and easily convinces everyone that he's innocent, despite virtually all the evidence points to him being obviously guilty. Except for guilty, but he manages to endear himself to everybody except Stan, who is who's on the jury and wont rest jury. Everybody else wants to let him off just because they like him, but Stan forces them to keep reviewing the evidence until Roger is convicted.
they vote guilty just to get him to stop. (They break down crying during the conviction.)
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* One episode of ''{{CSI}}'' has the holdout on a jury found dead; the suspicion is that he was murdered to end the deadlock.
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* One episode of ''{{CSI}}'' has the holdout on a jury found dead; the dead. The suspicion is that he was murdered to end the deadlock.deadlock, when in truth [[spoiler:he was stung by a bee that had flown into the jury room through an open window and died from a massive allergic reaction.]]
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* In ''TheDeadZone'', Johnny becomes a rogue juror because he has a psychic vision of the accused being shanked in prison. Even with his powers, he's much like the original [[12AngryMen Juror No. 8]] in that he doesn't know for sure the accused is innocent until further examination of the evidence.
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* In ''TheDeadZone'', Johnny becomes a rogue juror because he has a psychic vision of the accused being shanked in prison. Even with his powers, he's much like the original [[12AngryMen [[TwelveAngryMen Juror No. 8]] in that he doesn't know for sure the accused is innocent until further examination of the evidence.
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* Inverted on AmericanDad. Roger is on trial and easily convinces everyone that he's innocent, despite being obviously guilty. Except for Stan, who is on the jury and wont rest until Roger is convicted.
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* How the movie ''Ernest Goes To Jail'' starts out. A henchman of bank robber Felix Nash realizes that one of the jurors on his murder trial, Ernest Warrell, looks exactly like his boss. He arranges for the jurors to visit the prison where the crime was committed, after which Nash knocks out Ernest and changes places. After that, Nash insists on finding his henchman innocent, keeping the henchman from getting his sentence upped to life, and then Nash walks out of the courthouse a free man, leaving Ernest in jail to serve out Nash's sentence (of Death).
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* On ''CrossingJordan'', the rogue juror is Jordan. No one is surprised.
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* On ''CrossingJordan'', the rogue juror is Jordan.Jordan (in quite possibly the most unrealistic trial of this type ever; just for starters, Jordan is already acquainted with the prosecutor). No one is surprised.
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* In ''TheDeadZone'', Johnny becomes a rogue juror because he has a psychic vision of the accused being shanked in prison.
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* In ''TheDeadZone'', Johnny becomes a rogue juror because he has a psychic vision of the accused being shanked in prison. Even with his powers, he's much like the original [[12AngryMen Juror No. 8]] in that he doesn't know for sure the accused is innocent until further examination of the evidence.
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