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This article gives some first details of the six jurors work.
MIAMI — George Zimmerman was guilty of nothing more than “bad judgment,” one of six jurors to find the neighborhood watchman not guilty said Monday night.
The juror, the first to share her story publicly, spoke anonymously, telling Anderson Cooper of CNN that she believed Mr. Zimmerman’s account that Trayvon Martin attacked him. Fearing for his life, Mr. Zimmerman had no choice but to shoot the teenager, the juror said. Mr. Martin was unarmed.
“I think his heart was in the right place,” the juror said of Mr. Zimmerman’s eagerness to try to protect the neighborhood. “It just went terribly wrong.”
She said later, “It pretty much happened the way George said it happened.”
Juror B37, the number she was assigned for the trial, also said that when the six jurors first began to deliberate, they were evenly divided between guilt and innocence. One voted for second-degree murder and two voted for manslaughter. B37 said she was one of three who initially voted “not guilty.”
“There was a couple of them in there that wanted to find him guilty of something,” the juror said.
But after sorting through the evidence and Mr. Zimmerman’s account, the three jurors changed their minds. Second-degree murder was discarded first. Then, after much confusion over the jury instructions, manslaughter was also set aside, she said.
The jurors, who gave their verdict Saturday, concluded that Mr. Zimmerman acted in self-defense, she said. “I have no doubt George feared for his life,” she said.
Unlike the swirl of anger and passion over the role of race outside the courtroom, race did not come up during 16 hours and 20 minutes of deliberations, she said. No juror, she said, viewed the case through the prism of race.
The fact that Mr. Martin was black did not drive Mr. Zimmerman to suspect and follow him, she said. It was the overall situation — he was cutting through the back, the townhouse complex had been hit by a rash of burglaries, and Mr. Martin appeared to be walking aimlessly in the rain, looking in houses, she said.
“I think he just profiled him because he was the neighborhood watch and he profiled anybody who came in and saw them acting strange,” she said, regardless of race.
The juror also said that she and most of the other jurors believed Mr. Zimmerman was the one screaming for help during the recording of a resident’s 911 call because he was the one being beaten. An “important” piece of evidence, she called it.
“It was a long cry and scream for help — whoever was crying for help was in fear for their life,” she said.
For whatever reason, Mr. Martin, she said, decided to confront Mr. Zimmerman and threw the first punch.
“Trayvon got mad and attacked him,” she said.
The juror also said that Rachel Jeantel, Mr. Martin’s friend who spoke to him on the phone moments before he was killed, was “not a good witness.” The juror said Ms. Jeantel “clearly didn’t want to be there.”
Clearly sympathetic to Mr. Zimmerman, the juror, who is married to a lawyer and has two grown children, referred to him as George. She said she felt sorry for Mr. Zimmerman and for Mr. Martin, calling the situation a “tragedy.” The six women became very emotional, she said, immediately after they handed their verdict to the bailiff.
“It’s just sad that we all had to come together and figure out what is going to happen to this man’s life afterwards,” she said. “You find him not guilty, but you are responsible for that not guilty, and all the people who want him guilty aren’t going to have any closure.”
On Monday it was announced that the juror had signed with a literary agent with the intent of writing a book. But by early Tuesday, the agent, Sharlene Martin, had rescinded the offer and the juror dropped her plans to write a book. The juror said in a statement that being sequestered “shielded me from the depth of pain that exists among the general public over every aspect of this case.”
“The potential book was always intended to be a respectful observation of the trial from my and my husband’s perspectives solely and it was to be an observation that our ‘system’ of justice can get so complicated that it creates a conflict with our ‘spirit’ of justice,” she said in the statement. “Now that I am returned to my family and to society in general, I have realized that the best direction for me to go is away from writing any sort of book and return instead to my life as it was before I was called to sit on this jury.”
Source: The New York Times
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This article gives some first details of the six jurors work.
MIAMI — George Zimmerman was guilty of nothing more than “bad judgment,” one of six jurors to find the neighborhood watchman not guilty said Monday night.
The juror, the first to share her story publicly, spoke anonymously, telling Anderson Cooper of CNN that she believed Mr. Zimmerman’s account that Trayvon Martin attacked him. Fearing for his life, Mr. Zimmerman had no choice but to shoot the teenager, the juror said. Mr. Martin was unarmed.
“I think his heart was in the right place,” the juror said of Mr. Zimmerman’s eagerness to try to protect the neighborhood. “It just went terribly wrong.”
She said later, “It pretty much happened the way George said it happened.”
Juror B37, the number she was assigned for the trial, also said that when the six jurors first began to deliberate, they were evenly divided between guilt and innocence. One voted for second-degree murder and two voted for manslaughter. B37 said she was one of three who initially voted “not guilty.”
“There was a couple of them in there that wanted to find him guilty of something,” the juror said.
But after sorting through the evidence and Mr. Zimmerman’s account, the three jurors changed their minds. Second-degree murder was discarded first. Then, after much confusion over the jury instructions, manslaughter was also set aside, she said.
The jurors, who gave their verdict Saturday, concluded that Mr. Zimmerman acted in self-defense, she said. “I have no doubt George feared for his life,” she said.
Unlike the swirl of anger and passion over the role of race outside the courtroom, race did not come up during 16 hours and 20 minutes of deliberations, she said. No juror, she said, viewed the case through the prism of race.
The fact that Mr. Martin was black did not drive Mr. Zimmerman to suspect and follow him, she said. It was the overall situation — he was cutting through the back, the townhouse complex had been hit by a rash of burglaries, and Mr. Martin appeared to be walking aimlessly in the rain, looking in houses, she said.
“I think he just profiled him because he was the neighborhood watch and he profiled anybody who came in and saw them acting strange,” she said, regardless of race.
The juror also said that she and most of the other jurors believed Mr. Zimmerman was the one screaming for help during the recording of a resident’s 911 call because he was the one being beaten. An “important” piece of evidence, she called it.
“It was a long cry and scream for help — whoever was crying for help was in fear for their life,” she said.
For whatever reason, Mr. Martin, she said, decided to confront Mr. Zimmerman and threw the first punch.
“Trayvon got mad and attacked him,” she said.
The juror also said that Rachel Jeantel, Mr. Martin’s friend who spoke to him on the phone moments before he was killed, was “not a good witness.” The juror said Ms. Jeantel “clearly didn’t want to be there.”
Clearly sympathetic to Mr. Zimmerman, the juror, who is married to a lawyer and has two grown children, referred to him as George. She said she felt sorry for Mr. Zimmerman and for Mr. Martin, calling the situation a “tragedy.” The six women became very emotional, she said, immediately after they handed their verdict to the bailiff.
“It’s just sad that we all had to come together and figure out what is going to happen to this man’s life afterwards,” she said. “You find him not guilty, but you are responsible for that not guilty, and all the people who want him guilty aren’t going to have any closure.”
On Monday it was announced that the juror had signed with a literary agent with the intent of writing a book. But by early Tuesday, the agent, Sharlene Martin, had rescinded the offer and the juror dropped her plans to write a book. The juror said in a statement that being sequestered “shielded me from the depth of pain that exists among the general public over every aspect of this case.”
“The potential book was always intended to be a respectful observation of the trial from my and my husband’s perspectives solely and it was to be an observation that our ‘system’ of justice can get so complicated that it creates a conflict with our ‘spirit’ of justice,” she said in the statement. “Now that I am returned to my family and to society in general, I have realized that the best direction for me to go is away from writing any sort of book and return instead to my life as it was before I was called to sit on this jury.”
Source: The New York Times
Article 2 of 2
Comment by Global Church of God - GCG
- church for the modern world -
The First Worldwide Community Church with Biblical principles for all people
by Dr. Christian von Christophers, Ph.D., N.D., D.D., Pastor
Our country is based on the Christian, Biblical Principles - that's the statement by the historians.
The Bible was in the hands of our founding fathers.
The Bible, (two of them: (1) MLK's & (2) Pres. Lincoln's), was used in President Obama's inauguration ceremony. Mr.Obama states his religion is the Biblical Christian.
A huge question for all of us humans: How to have a mentally, physically, financially happy & successful life?
As the founder of Successology ® (Reg.US.Pat.Off.1991) - the new science for life success - I am honored, no matter what your background, homeless, a President or a King or anything between, to show light for finding a road to your worthy goals and getting them fulfilled.
Visit for further information GCG's website & another affiliated, science & success website introduced there.
GCG is a for the modern world - our teaching for life success is always based on two elements:
(1) The Biblical Text and (2) the most updated modern human science. Based on the latest science facts GCG proves every statement we make in our teaching.
GCG's presence is needed in D.C. in W.H., in the U.S. Congress (House & Senate) to remind of our founding fathers' idea for our country. GCG is needed in D.C. to give reminders of ethics & reasonability in our choices as the nation's lawmakers.
GCG needs donations to widen its important work for your family's safer life and richer, healthier future.
GCG works nationwide in the U.S. and worldwide in any country.
Mail any size of donation in any currency as paper money to: GCG, GPO 339, New York, NY 10116-0339, USA. In the envelope enclose your name & email address - GCG will email you a tax deductible confirmation receipt. 100 % of the donations will be used for GCG's help operations to ease human suffering & to save human lives.
Listen to GCG's, Inc.'s popular Radio Show - you'll get free CEU & College-University credits valid worldwide.
Visit GCG website provided by Weebly - use in your web search: "Global Church of God - GCG - Home - Weebly"
Respectfully,
Christian von Christophers, Ph.D., N.D., D.D.
GCG - headquartered in New York City