![Martin Balsam](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/vOrAfNxbu3Y1eQbdVQGUcmTu9Rc.jpg)
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.