Challenge
Imagine you find yourself on a jury for a murder trial, and the eleven other jurors are convinced the suspect is guilty. You think the suspect is innocent. How do you convince your peers of their innocence? Challenge sponsored by Random House Books and THE HOLDOUT by Graham Moore, the Academy screenwriter of The Imitation Game.
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Fools Must Learn
I stand above my fellow jury members. Confused, they look at me, questioning my sudden movement.
"Fools," I say. "Are you so in haste to play God, so in haste to cast this man into oblivion, that you do not stop to hear his plea? Have you been so seduced by the lies of the prosecution that you have replaced all logic with the filth of their mistruths?" I point at the defendant; he ducks from the intensity of my stare.
"This man is innocent," I roar. "If you all weren't so obsessed with the prosecution's fairy tales, you would've noticed that this poor man's story lines up. For once in your goddamn lives, pay attention."