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"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 a safeguard which has enormous value to our system. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it's sure. We nine can't understand how you three are still so sure. Maybe you can tell us."
Juror #8 (Davis), 12 Angry Men

Homer: So, if we don't all vote the same way, we'll be deadlocked, and have to be sequestered in the Springfield Palace Hotel?
Patty: That's not gonna happen, Homer.
Jasper: Let's vote. My liver is failing.
Homer: Where we'll get... (opens brochure) A free room, free food, free swimming pool, free HBO—Ooh, Free Willy!
Skinner: Justice is not a frivolous thing, Simpson. It has little, if anything to do with a disobedient whale. Now, let's vote.
Homer: Uh, how are the rest of you voting?
Rest of the jury: Guilty.
Homer: Okay, fine. (starts writing) How many s's in "innocent"?
The Simpsons, "The Boy Who Knew Too Much"

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