First, the jury’s inability to “crawl inside other people’s skin and see things from their point of view” cost Tom Robinson his freedom. Despite Judge Taylor’s endeavor to provide Tom Robinson with a good defense, the jury found him guilty. This is an outcome of not listening or acting on Atticus’s ethics. For example, the defendant could not have raped Mayella Ewell because she was bruised on the right side of her face, which would mean the attacker had to be left-handed. When Tom Robinson is called to the witness stand, the jury learns his left hand is not functional because he caught it in a cotton gin when he was young. No matter how empirical the evidence meets the eye, the jury already had a preconceived verdict from the start: guilty.