A pillar of the community is dragged from the University classroom where he teaches by police under charges of murder. In a powder keg of political and racial tensions, 12 members of the jury are lead to the deliberation chambers to decided a man's fate. Buried in circumstantial evidence and trapped in a room with not only each other but each person's private bias, soapboxes, and outrage, the jury is as much on trial as the defendant.
—Landon Salyer