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.

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...

There were eleven votes for “guilty.” It’s not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.

Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.

It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.