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Novel · Historical literature

Statements, indictments, bills are circulated, shuffled between judges, prosecutors, the Attorney General, the Lord Chancellor’s office; each step in the process clear, logical, and designed to create corpses by due process of law.

Bring Up the Bodies · 2012

★ 1.1

Film · Courtroom drama (film) · Drama (film) · Courtroom drama · Drama

It's always difficult to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And wherever you run into it, prejudice always obscures the truth. I don't really know what the truth is. I don't suppose anybody will ever really know. 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 let a guilty man go free, I don't know. Nobody really can. But we have a reasonable doubt, and that's something that's very valuable in our system. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it's sure.

12 Angry Men · 1957

★ 3.5

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

The Rape of the Lock · 1714

★ 4.5