I'll appeal to the board.

Congress was caught off guard.

This is a moral issue.

That question is under discussion.

A little country town.

This is not a world we should accept. This is what's at stake.

The verdict is a tribute to their fairness.

Currently judging has been inconsistent, opinion based, unexplained...

But I'm also the president of the world's oldest constitutional democracy.

Which judge heard the case?

Tell them an honest attempt means not guilty.

We have to appoint new members of the examining board.

I read a diary of this poor senator who just keeps coming back,

Factional in fighting threw a monkey wrench into the deliberations.

The problem will be on the carpet at the next meeting.

In theaters for the first time.

Of course, sir.

I think you can, and I think if you can imagine that kind of argument, where the loser says to the winner and the audience and the jury can say,

There's no new angle if that's what you're looking for, Barbara.

What we need is the proof of what they are doing before we bring it to the Council of Nations.

Sue people like that, they're liable to be having dinner with the judge who's trying the suit.

And we released the film at the same time that the Congress was debating the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act.

It became so outrageous, the whole situation, that in fact a commission of inquiry was appointed, and it reported in 1982, 30 years ago it reported the Ballah Report 30 years ago, and immediately the government to government arrangements were stopped.

Mrs. Hall appeared after an interval, a little short of breath, but all the fiercer for that.

Instructions...

But there's another twist on this model that I really think is important namely, that when we argue before an audience, sometimes the audience has a more participatory role in the argument that is, arguments are also performances in front of juries, who make a judgment and decide the case.

Huh? Your card.

Now imagine you are the jury and just to simplify the discussion put aside the question of law, and let's assume that you as the jury are charged with deciding whether what they did was morally permissible or not.

So it essentially reconstructs a ruptured hymen, allowing her to bleed upon having sexual intercourse, to simulate the loss of virginity.

And they observe deliberations after mock trial proceedings so that they can better advise their clients how to adjust their trial strategy to have the outcome that they're hoping for.

Well, that's OK with me.

Foreman.

Foreman! Yes?

Foreman...

Foreman.

Foreman...

Your jury card!

Objection.

This is a picture of Maurice Druon, the Honorary Perpetual Secretary of L'Academie francaise, the French Academy.

A momentous thing that can happen to a culture is they can acquire a new style of arguing trial by jury, voting, peer review, now this.

He was the chairman of the meeting.

That's funny, it's locked.

The jury will now retire.

Instructions...

I'm foreman.