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Runaway Jury Movie Questions And Answers?

Postby osryd » Sat Jun 09, 2012 7:56 pm

Hi, I have to do this project for school and we have to make questions for the class absed ona movie. I've watched Runaway Jury and made some questions. However, I don't know how best to answer the questions. If anyone has watched this movie, please respond. Thank you. The quetions are:

1.Why does Nicolas Easter want to be on the jury in the case of Woods v. Vicksburg Firearms?
2.How does he convince the judge to require him to serve on the jury?
3.How does Easter know Marlee?
4.What is Rankin Finch’s roll in this case?
5.What methods does Finch use in an attempt to achieve his objective?
6.What methods do Easter and Marlee use to achieve theirs?
7.What is the greatest ethical dilemma Wendell Rohr faces in this trial?
8.What do you think made Easter and Marlee successful in the end?
9.Do you believe that Easter’s and Marlee’s actions served the cause of justice?

I'm not asking to do my work, but rather teach me about it. Thnx. And when answering, copy paste the questions and then answer pls. Thank you. I really appreciate this.
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Runaway Jury Movie Questions And Answers?

Postby teithi71 » Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:03 pm

1.Why does Nicolas Easter want to be on the jury in the case of Woods v. Vicksburg Firearms?
3.How does Easter know Marlee?

Nick and Marlee are high school girl friend/boy friends. Nick is really Jeff Kerr, a talented former law student drop-out, and Marlee's real name is Gabby Brandt. Gabby's younger sister, Margaret, died in a school shooting -- along with eight others. Nick had tried to save her but she just "froze" in front of the lone gunman. Their home town of Gardner sued the gun manufacturer and Fitch helped to win the case for the defense, bankrupting the town of Gardner. Doyle concludes that Nick and Marlee's intent is a set-up to bring down Finch.
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2. How does he convince the judge to require him to serve on the jury?
Nick pretends that he doesn't want to be on jury duty -- tricking the judge into thinking he needs to perform his civic duty. Nick repeatedly looks at a photo of Marlee's dead sister in an antique locket but the judge thinks he is looking at his pocket watch. Then Nick goes into a long rant about participating in a Madden Challenge, the NFL video game for prize money ($100,000) and that is more important to him than serving on the jury. This infuriated the judge so he wants this juror.

4. Rankin Finch is hired by big corporations to help them win lawsuits. Finch is the best jury-fixer there is. For a substantial fee, he carefully investigates and chooses the perfect jury, and arranges whatever needs to be done to make sure the verdict comes out his way. And he is paid BIG bucks to do it.

7. Wendell Rohr faces the dilemma of buying the jury's vote for millions of dollars, i.e., jury tampering, or fighting the case, honestly, to the end no matter what the outcome is. He wants to win badly.
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