The accused claimed that the weapon, a switchblade, fell out of his pocket and it must have been picked up or that someone might have possessed the same knife. The men who consider him guilty say that the weapon is rare and no one else could own a similar knife. In response to this argument juror #8 pulls out an exact replica of the knife used to kill the man.
After this display with the knives the group takes another vote. In a second vote, done by secret ballot, 10 men still think the boy is guilty while two do not. The questioning of the evidence and the second vote planted the seeds of doubt in the jury and this is where they began to really question whether the boy was guilty.
Juror #8 presents a convincing argument that one of the witnesses, an elderly man who claimed to have heard the boy yell "I'm going to kill you" shortly before the murder took place, could not have heard the voices as clearly as he had testified due to a train passing by at the time. He also points that many who say “I’m going to kill you” don’t really mean it. This caused one more juror to vote not guilty. Next Juror #11 questions whether the defendant would have reasonably fled the scene before cleaning the knife of fingerprints, then come back three hours later to retrieve the knife (which had been left in his father's chest) and then changes his