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The Trays will love her. She is saying exactly what they want to hear, till she gets to the part where there should not have been a trail and no evidence to convict George. And Bernie used a pre-emptive challenge to throw off a black man to get her?? I think Bernie did throw the trial. Imagine being a fellow juror and trying to explain things to her, although to their credit, the court was asked to elaborate on "manslaughter" which both the prosecution and judge refused to do.If I were this juror, I would've kept my mouth shut. She's going to be more of a target now from the rabid anti-Zimmerman crowd because she didn't, oddly enough, stand her ground.
The Trays will love her. She is saying exactly what they want to hear, till she gets to the part where there should not have been a trail and no evidence to convict George. And Bernie used a pre-emptive challenge to throw off a black man to get her?? I think Bernie did throw the trial. Imagine being a fellow juror and trying to explain things to her, although to their credit, the court was asked to elaborate on "manslaughter" which both the prosecution and judge refused to do.
The only minority on the all-female jury that voted to acquit George Zimmerman said today that Zimmerman "got away with murder" for killing Trayvon Martin and feels she owes an apology Martin's parents
"You can't put the man in jail even though in our hearts we felt he was guilty," said the woman who was identified only as Juror B29 during the trial. "But we had to grab our hearts and put it aside and look at the evidence."
She said the jury was following Florida law and the evidence, she said, did not prove murder.
The court had sealed the jurors' identities during the trial and still hasn't lifted the order, but Juror B29 edged out of the shadows in an exclusive interview with "Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts. She allowed her face to be shown, but -- concerned for her safety -- used only a first name of Maddy.
Watch More of the Interview Thursday on "World News" at 6:30 p.m. ET and Friday on "Good Morning America" at 7 a.m. ET
The nursing assistant and mother of eight children was selected as a juror five months after she had moved to Seminole County, Fla., from Chicago.
All six of the jurors were women and Maddy, 36, who is Puerto Rican, was the only minority to deliberate in the racially charged case. Zimmerman, 29, was a white Hispanic and Martin, 17, was black.
Despite the prosecution's claim the Zimmerman profiled Martin because he was black, Maddy said the case was never about race to her, although she didn't want to speak for her fellow jurors.
But her feelings about Zimmerman's actions are clear.
"George Zimmerman got away with murder, but you can't get away from God. And at the end of the day, he's going to have a lot of questions and answers he has to deal with," Maddy said. "[But] the law couldn't prove it."
Catch up on all the details from the George Zimmerman murder trial.
When the jury of six women—five of them mothers—began deliberations, Maddy said she favored convicting Zimmerman of second degree murder, which could have put him in prison for the rest of his life. The jury was also allowed to consider manslaughter, a lesser charge.
"I was the juror that was going to give them the hung jury. I fought to the end," she said.
However, on the second day of deliberations, after spending nine hours discussing the evidence, Maddy said she realized there wasn't enough proof to convict Zimmerman of murder or manslaughter under Florida law.
Zimmerman concedes he shot and killed Martin in Sanford on Feb. 26, 2012, but maintains he fired in self-defense.
"That's where I felt confused, where if a person kills someone, then you get charged for it," Maddy said. "But as the law was read to me, if you have no proof that he killed him intentionally, you can't say he's guilty."
When asked by Roberts whether the case should have gone to trial, Maddy said, "I don't think so."
"I felt like this was a publicity stunt. This whole court service thing to me was publicity," she said.
As a mother, Maddy said she has had trouble adjusting to life after the verdict, and has wrestled with whether she made the right decision.
"I felt like I let a lot of people down, and I'm thinking to myself, 'Did I go the right way? Did I go the wrong way?'" she said.
"As much as we were trying to find this man guilty…they give you a booklet that basically tells you the truth, and the truth is that there was nothing that we could do about it," she said. "I feel the verdict was already told."
Maddy said she has sympathy for Martin's parents and believes she, too, would continue the crusade for justice if this had happened to her son.
She said she believes she owes Trayvon Martin's parents an apology because she feels "like I let them down."
"It's hard for me to sleep, it's hard for me to eat because I feel I was forcefully included in Trayvon Martin's death. And as I carry him on my back, I'm hurting as much Trayvon's Martin's mother because there's no way that any mother should feel that pain," she said.
Maddy is the second juror to speak in a televised interview, and the first to show her face.
Juror B37, whose face and body were hidden, appeared last week on Anderson Cooper's CNN show, and said that she believes Zimmerman's "heart was in the right place" when he became suspicious of Martin and that the teenager probably threw the first punch.
Since then, four other jurors distanced themselves from B37's remarks and released a statement saying B37's opinions were "not in any way representative" of their own.
George Zimmerman Juror Says He 'Got Away With Murder' - ABC News
Take that B**tches
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Take what, exactly?
Take that B**tches
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Take what? That she followed the law as she was told to do?
I consistently said she followed the law and should have. I respect our system however flawed. The point of the BAM was that I had also always argued, against those that claimed to know what all the jurors believed Z was innocent, that you can not make that statement until the jurors come out and tell us what they were thinking and what went on for them. Also, that not guilty does not mean innocent. She supports both my arguments.
In reading articles about the interview, it is clear to me that she felt GZ committed murder. Yet, when reading the law, it became clear GZ did not and she had to put her feelings aside. She stated the evidence was not there for a conviction.
Someone can feel whatever they want. In court cases, the jury must follow the law and base decisions on the law. Not how they feel.
It facinates me how so called journalist like to hype a story.
Who thinks "not guilty" means "innocent"?
You are not getting it. What in shows is that a person can return a not guilty verdict because of the way a law is written or because of the charges the prosecutor chose to file not because they do not think the defendant is actually innocent.
You are not getting it. What in shows is that a person can return a not guilty verdict because of the way a law is written or because of the charges the prosecutor chose to file not because they do not think the defendant is actually innocent.
Many, let's call them Zimmerman supporters, claimed throughout their many posts about this case to have known that the jury members considered Zimmerman innocent and that they completely believed his stories. I argued that they don't actually know that and won't until or unless other jurors step forward and share what they thought themselves.
In a normal state with normal self defense laws he would be seen as a murderer. He would be in jail right now. Flor-i-duh's law is ****ed up.
Well she does have 8 kids to feed. Did she get paid for this interview?The only reason for a juror to speak out is to have a personal publicity stunt.
The only thing this woman is doing wrong, or did wrong was talk to the media about it.
NO! The only thing she did wrong was allow the other jurors to sway her vote! If she honestly believed he was guilty of murder and she still thinks so NOW, then she should have stuck to her guns however long it took and settle on a Hung Jury if nothing else.
Talking this crap afterwards? Either she is lying to try to distance herself from the verdict SHE VOTED ON; or she must take full responsibility for failing in her duty as a juror. In either case she deserves no respect for her current public position. :smash:
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