Well, if that means "12 Angry Men" is a lightweight comedy I'll consider the comparison valid (that argument's more convincing to me then it's concept of what "reasonable doubt" means)
For legal dramas, I can forgive that kind of license in a run of the mill Perry Mason episode in which I take for granted that the real guilty party is going to fold like a cheap tent on the witness stand all the time. Not in something that aspires to allegedly be the product of a more...
The minute Fonda introduces a "second knife" in the proceedings, everything should have been stopped and Fonda either removed and replaced with an alternate or a mistrial declared. The first cardinal rule of ethics for anyone sitting on a jury is to do *no* outside investigating. Fonda's...