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<p style="margin-top: 1rem; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Whitney, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">A jury makes the final decision of a verdict. Atticus is making note that a court is only as effective as the jury is. All biases and feelings toward a subject will affect the opinion of the jurors wether they deny it or not.</p><p style="margin-top: 1rem; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Whitney, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Tom Robinson was wrongfully killed because of racist jurors who would convict a man because of his skin color rather than the evidence of the incident at large.</p><p style="margin-top: 1rem; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Whitney, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Atticus is calling out the courtroom as a whole because of what they stand for-racial prejudice- which leads to him saying that a courtroom is only as effective as the people in it.</p><p style="margin-top: 1rem; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Whitney, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">He explains this in the sentences below.</p><p style="margin-top: 1rem; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Whitney, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><img src="https://images.rapgenius.com/361f62d42b661eb6a59ee364487f586f.400x316x1.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="316" data-animated="false" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; max-height: 325px; width: auto;"></p>

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