| Today I believe fully that you fine gentlemen have had your time wasted. “The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence,” to prove that Tom Robinson committed the crime he is accused of (TAKM 1:32:11 – 1:32:13). This court case should never have been brought to court. In the eyes of the law he is innocent until proven guilty, but the moment he was charged with this crime everyone was already condemning him. And even now after all that has been presented to day; his inability to use his left arm, the inconsistencies in the witness’s testimony, or even the lack of any physical evidence, everyone is still condemning him. Ask yourself why you believe that this man is a criminal, ask yourself if you believe condemning this man will change anything, will condemning this man prevent this crime from happening again. No, no it won’t, Miss Ewell will be no safer if this man is convicted than if he is not. Convicting Tom Robinson will not make all this go away and it will not bring justice. Convicting Tom Robinson will let the real criminal here go free, the real criminal will believe he can get away with this again. The real criminal will cause more pain and suffering because he will know that everyone will turn a blind eye and say that they already did their duty. That there is no need to get involved. I ask you here and now, please do not let your beliefs stop you from seeing the true evil here. Do not let your beliefs allow you to turn blind eye. Do not let your beliefs of Tom Robinson, cloud your judgment on what the real truth of this case. I believe. No, I know that Tom Robinson is innocent. And I know that everyone here today knows it too. All that I ask of you is that when you go and debate this, you review the facts, you ask yourself what is right, then ask yourself what will do right by God, and finally ask yourself can I live with this choice. Can I condemn this man and risk letting the true criminal here go free and strike again.
Work Cited To Kill a Mockingbird. Robert Mulligan. Universal Pictures, 1962. Digitalcampus.swankmp.net. Web. 9 September 2017. |
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The most effective appeal would be your use of logos within your closing argument. You have used logos by basing your argument upon the fact that if Tom Robinson were to commit the crime then one would be letting the actual criminal go free; thus, logically one would want to convict the true criminal and not let him go free, but if Tom Robinson is convicted of this crime the true criminal is still free.
As a member of the jury I would still have to decide that Tom Robinson is guilty, because if I were put into the jurors mindset at that time with all of the biases of society at that time I would not be moved enough to acquit Tom Robinson and go against the social norm. I would need a little bit more convincing.