Zimmerman Trial: B29 remembers that "some little boy passed away. B29 has eight children, the oldest of whom is 20 and recently returned home to look for work.
She as been married for 10 years. B76 is one of two jurors the State sought unsuccessfully to strike from the jury. She is a white, middle-aged woman, who was also first questioned in court on the first day of jury selection.
She recalled that there had been some kind of struggle, that a young man had been shot and that Zimmerman had been injured. Zimmerman Trial: B76 recalls young man was shot and Zimmerman was injured. She has been a resident in Seminole country for almost two decades. Married for 30 years, she has two children, a year-old son and a year-old daughter.
She and her husband once ran a construction company, but currently she is unemployed and her husband manages their several rental properties, which provide their main source of income. She spends much of her time rescuing pets in need of care. In terms of recalling crime in her neighborhood, B76 mentioned teenagers vandalizing signs, but a call to the police seemed to resolve the matter. They had an already established Neighborhood Watch Program in her neighborhood at the time, and she recalled using it to call her neighbors about it at the time.
Although B76 described no personal experience with firearms, she did say that several close family members own guns. Zimmerman : reason state struck B "why was a kid out at night getting candy? B37, first presented to the court on the second day of jury selection, Tuesday, June 11, is memorable as the woman with many pets: 3 dogs, 4 cats, a parrot, a crow with one wing, two lizards. She has lived in Seminole county for 18 years, and has been married for She has two children, a year-old and a year-old.
Also, two daughters. Zimmerman Trayvon. Her husband still owns guns, however, and B37 expressed no uncertainty about her ability to use and shoot a gun, saying she has gone to the range shooting. B51, like B37, was first questioned on the second day of jury selection. She is retired, unmarried, and has no children, and lives with a dog and a year-old cat. She has lived in Seminole county for 9 years.
She recalled basic facts about the case, including that Zimmerman was in the Neighborhood Watch Program and had a gun permit. She said she had not yet formed an opinion about the case, and that she was open to changing her mind if presented with contrary evidence. Perhaps he did.
Unusually for this jury pool, she also indicated that she was a newspaper reader. Zimmerman Trial: B "Police asked him to wait…I'm thinking he didn't wait was a problem…. She also affirmed the importance of not considering her own biases in coming to a verdict. E6 was one of two jurors the State sought unsuccessfully to strike from the jury. She is a white mother with adolescent children, and years-old, and again was a jury first presented to the court on the second day of jury selection.
She had lived in Seminole county since She was among the jurors who had been previously arrested, but says that she was treated fairly, was deserving of it, and would not hold it against either side in this case. She explained that it had been a domestic violence matter. She seemed quite nervous in her first day at court. She told the Court that her husband had several guns in the household, including a 9mm pistol and. Her year-old son also has a hunting rifle and some BB guns.
E6 has been to the range once shooting actual firearms, and has done target practice with the BB guns. Zimmerman O'Mara disagrees with state. Says circumstantial evidence isn't equivalent to direct. Gets E28, E6, B76 to say why. E6 also asked a couple of interesting questions. Zimmerman Trial: E6: Neighborhood watch could be a good or bad thing.
E40 is a white woman in her 60s who was living in Iowa at the time the shooting occurred, and who was also first questioned by the court on the second day of jury selection. The nursing assistant and mother of eight children was selected as a juror five months after she had moved to Seminole County, Fla. 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. Catch up on all the details from the George Zimmerman murder trial. 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.
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. See reaction to the George Zimmerman Verdict. 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.
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. When asked by Roberts whether the case should have gone to trial, Maddy said, "I don't think so. He claimed Martin was slamming his head into the concrete sidewalk when he fired the gun.
She said Zimmerman made some mistakes, but that she believed Martin struck Zimmerman first and that the neighborhood watch volunteer had a right to defend himself. CBS News legal analyst Jack Ford said on "CBS This Morning" Tuesday that the juror's comments could have a "significant impact" moving forward because the federal government will be looking at race as a factor in the case.
Juror B37 said the jurors were initially divided on Zimmerman's guilt, with three jurors believing he was guilty of either manslaughter or second-degree murder , but that the jury agreed to acquit the year-old Zimmerman after more closely reviewing the law.
In a part of the interview that aired Tuesday, Juror B37 said it wouldn't have made much difference if Zimmerman had testified at trial since she believes he would have given the same story he gave investigators in videotaped police interviews that were played at the trial.
Juror B37 said at one point it appeared they might be heading to a hung jury as another juror wanted to leave. The other jurors convinced her to stay. Juror B37 said a block of concrete that defense attorney Mark O'Mara placed in front of jurors during closing arguments made an impression, as did photos of Zimmerman's bloodied head.
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