This is a story about how to manipulate a jury.
In the American judicial system, the outcome of a civil trial is determined by a jury vote. Therefore, in order to win a lawsuit, there are often "jury advisors" behind the lawyers. There is even a team for major cases. They screen the jurors, investigate them, and look for the weaknesses of each of them to exert influence. His own jurors play an active role in the jury, and do everything possible to remove those who are unfavorable to him.
So the defense's "jury advisor" Rankin Fitch said: "The trial is not child's play and should not be left to the jury to decide."
So, the lawsuit is won? Or buy to win? Will the jury vote in conscience?
The defendant's "jury advisor" felt that everything was under his control, but he didn't expect to be out of control by one of the vague jury members.
In the first round, the jury chairman was elected, and Nick successfully kicked out Herrera.
Rankin Fitch felt that among the twelve, only former Marine Corps Chief Herrera had leadership qualities, and the others were mediocre people who were keen to watch TV every day. Unexpectedly, Nick recommended the blind Hallman, who dared to refute the judge, and won unanimous approval.
The second round caused everyone to have no food during the lunch break of the first day of the trial, so the presiding judge asked the jury to eat.
Before the end of the morning trial, a blond woman sitting in the auditorium walked out of the courtroom ahead of schedule. When she went out, she asked the female marshal to hand it over to the lawyers of both parties, Lore and Kaibo. The envelope contained twelve members of the jury. 's avatar, with a sentence on it: "Jury for Sale", with handwriting on the back: "16 yuan a day (subsidy) plus supermarket lunch can't buy a jury."
The female marshal asked everyone to fill in the take-out menu. Nick took the opportunity to deliberately miss a menu, crumpled it up, and threw it out of the window. Mary picked it up quickly outside, and went to the phone booth to call the restaurant to inform the restaurant not to deliver food before two o’clock. The crumpled menu in her hand reads: "1:00 PM," which is the court's break and the originally agreed meal delivery time.
At 1:30, everyone could neither go out nor see takeaways delivered, and complained one after another. At this time Nick sneaked out and found the judge who was eating in the restaurant, falsely claiming that the bailiff forgot to order and everyone was starving. As a result, the judge had no choice but to pay everyone to eat out of his own pocket. This scene happened to be seen by both lawyers passing by. Lawyers for the plaintiffs, Lohr, called it the most absurd thing to do in 35 years.
At this time, Mary called Lan Jin and Lorre respectively from the phone booth and told them that there is a price to pay for getting the jury. Money can be used to influence jury members to entice them to vote "the right way."
In the third round, Nick said today was the day a friend died in the Gulf War, and he successfully planned a patriotic oath of jury members standing up during the trial.
Fourth round. Lanjin Feige sent someone to sneak into Nick's house to download the computer hard drive, but the whole process was recorded by Nick's hidden video recorder.
In retaliation, Nick removed a member of the jury backed by Lankin Feige. Because Nick had already noticed that this woman was always sneaking a bottle out of her bag and pouring it into her coffee.
Round five. Lanjin Feige sent two more people to Nick's house to look for the original hard drive again, and after finding it, they set it on fire. Things got bigger. Nick recorded a video of someone breaking into his home and brought it to the judge. The defendant's lawyer immediately requested an application for a "nullified trial", which was dismissed by Judge Ha Jin. The judge therefore ordered a segregated jury.
Lorre's advisor told Lorre that the man on the tape was the one who set fire to Nick's house and that he had seen it with his own eyes.
Round six. bargain.
Mary asked Lankin Fitch to meet and offered ten million. Lankin Feige took out a 500,000 cashless check and asked Mary not to touch the jury again.
Juror members in quarantine, everyone is under tremendous pressure. Li Qi fell into the toilet after taking a lot of sleeping pills.
Lankin Feige asked to meet Nick and promised to transfer ten million to a designated account in the Cayman Islands the next day. But Lankin Feige received a call from Mary in the middle of the night and told him: The person you sent to threaten me can't walk home tonight, and the price has risen from ten million to fifteen million. room for bargaining.
After being threatened, Lore's only important witness was suddenly unable to appear in court during the hearing, causing the embarrassing situation for the plaintiff to have no witnesses. The situation is critical, and Lorre is also weighing whether to pay the jury this million. But Lorre finally decided not to pay a cent, and would rather win the lawsuit with conscience and luck.
In the seventh round, track Nick to find the truth.
Fitchpie's men found Professor Phelan of Bloomington University and tracked down Jeffrey Kerr's hometown in Garner, Indiana, and his girlfriend named Gabil Brandt.
Detectives find Gabil's home and see pictures of two girls on the fireplace. Her mother said: Margaret and Gabil are twins less than a year apart. Margaret died in a school shooting in town more than a decade ago, and Gabil's boyfriend, Jeff, witnessed it and never brought Margaret back.
Eighth round. In the final heated debate of the jury, Nick defeated Herrera, and the other ten also supported Nick. The result of the vote was that the gun maker lost the case.
Nick and Mary found Fitch who was angry at the bar and told him that he had been waiting for this day for ten years.
In 1989, the Garner Town Office sued Heijing Firearms and lost the case. It was the defendant's lawyer, Lan Jin Feiqi, who was playing tricks.
The remittance receipts in Nick and Mary's hands will be Lanjin Feige's fatal spot.
Lankin Fitch asked Nick curiously: How did you manage to control them? Nick replied: I don't control others, I just prevent you from cheating in it and let them vote according to their conscience.
The final scene of the film: Lor and Nick and Mary are across the road, smiling at each other from a distance...
In fact, Lorre is also well aware of the psychology of the public. He deliberately wore a suit that did not fit well and was wrinkled, and deliberately stained mustard on his tie to form a huge contrast with the famous and expensive suit of the defendant's lawyer.
The law exists to do justice. All lawyers, all claiming to be defending the laws of this country. But some lawyers are trying to arouse the conscience of the judge and jury to make a correct verdict, while some lawyers want to use money to bribe the judge and jury to make a verdict in their own favor. It's a battle of conscience and money.
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