Effective Arguing

No matter what the subject, everyones opinion differs in one way or another. The deliberation process showed us this. The opening scenes of the deliberation process gave the impression that everyone would vote guilty and send the boy down death row. Then, surprisingly, Mr. Davis spoke up and stated that he thought the boy could possibly be not guilty of the murder. He used logic and and reasoning to show reasons that the boy could not be guilty. He was able to use the common knowledge about the noise of the train to rule out the ability to make out what the father was saying when he was yelling. This information was familiar to all the men at the table because of the environment they had grown accustom to living in. He was also able to use the knowledge of the old mans gimp leg to prove that he could never have made it to the door in the short amount of time that he claimed in court. Mr. Davis made an effective argument not by saying he was for sure right, but by saying that he could not be proven for sure wrong. He stated points that didn't completely let the boy off but gave him a small window to why he might not have committed the crime. He said that if the boy could be proven for sure guilt then he would vote the same as the rest of the table. No one could prove him wrong for sure and due to this the boy was found not guilty.