Twelve Angry Men Vocabulary

a jury that cannot reach a verdict

• coroner

• hung jury

• acquit

• belligerently

the exclusive control of

• perjury

• bigot

• verdict

• monopoly

a fault or error between conflicting facts or claims

• discrepancy

• foreman

• naive

• bigot

to find the defendant innocent/not guilty

• abstain

• beyond a reasonable doubt

• preliminary

• acquit

to make someone become hostile or unfriendly

• sadist

• alibi

• antagonize

• cross-examine

refuse to testify when doing so might incriminate oneself

• double jeopardy

• beyond a reasonable doubt

• perjury

• plead the Fifth

a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law

• foreman

• defendant

• prosecution

• sadist

someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain on others

• sadist

• naive

• hung jury

• defendant

rule that a person cannot be tried twice for the same crime

• plead the Fifth

• perjury

• double jeopardy

• belligerently

the decision a jury makes in a trial

• premeditate

• foreman

• verdict

• alibi