Some of the most important decisions in our lives are based on the values that our families and surrounding community impose on us. To make a difficult decision, especially about someone else’s future we have to put ourselves in the other persons shoe’s. I believe in the movie “A Time to Kill” , Jake the lawyer’s closing argument would have allowed me to put myself in the shoes of the father of the girl that was rapped. I think the big contradiction in this case was the fact that the two boys that rapped the girl where white, and the girl they rapped was black. And at this point in time especially in the southern states racism was a really big issue. So this instantly put Carl in a bad position just due to the fact that he was the minority. I believe that Carl’s statement would have made an impact on my final decision in I were in the jury.
He starts off by telling everyone in the courtroom to close their eyes and visualize the words that he was......
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