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Now that B37 has announced she will be writing a book about her experiences as a juror on the Zimmerman trial, and has been interviewed by Anderson Cooper, it seems to me that this trial may have been over the moment jury selection was completed.
It seems that B37 at least viewed this whole thing through her own pre-conceptions. She also mentioned stand-your-ground several times, and that wasn't even Zimmerman's defense.
What do you think?
Didn't she say 3 jurors voted for murder or manslaughter ? I think They were the stealth jurors with preconceived notions. They either decided to follow the law or were too weak-willed to stick to their stealth.
How has the NAACP had time to start a petition and get 800,000 signatures? Same amount of time since the conviction.
The jury was asked if they wanted to speak to the media. I've assumed since Sat. night that someone was passing on the offers confidentially to the jury and I'm sure they gotten offers from media all over the world.
I would bet that no one was passing on offers to the jurors. That's not the role of the judicial system, they're not there to set up deals for the jurors!
No, she or her husband had to make the contact to a publisher, and to CNN.
You people honestly believe that there's some conspiracy? I hope not, that is beyond crazy.
Conspiracy? I don't know what you would label the questionable integrity of a juror after the fact, but one can contemplate a few interesting scenarios when the trial unfolded in such small town. Who does her attorney husband know connected to the trial. It's the six degrees of separation thing going on here.
She also said that Trayvon had been looking into the windows of homes. Was there ANY testimony to that effect in the trial. Anyone?
I know Zimmerman said that Trayvon was just "looking around." But I never heard "looking into windows." Did anyone see that in the trial?
You're correct. It wasn't in the trial. She lost some credibility with me she brought up "looking in windows" and stand-your-ground which wasn't part of the defense at all.
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You don't think hee husband could've set something up? There's no doubt publishers were waiting for the chance to get at least one to do a book.
Now we know why she was taking so many notes. I'm sure they all got several proposals from publishers. I honestly don't fault a jury member from wanting to write about the experience, especially if the verdict was controversial. However, I'd rather see the jury members do a book together...each contributing a couple of chapters from their own points of view. This woman obviously didn't struggle with her vote like three others ones did. A while back there was a jury who all went on CNN together and THAT was far more interesting than this woman's.
Someone replied that they thought this juror sounded educated. That would not be my impression of this woman at all.
But, Oh God! This is the kind of myopic, biased mentality that puts innocent people in prison. She said she would never want to do this again. Well I hope she gets her wish, for the sake of justice being served, I hope she does.
But this juror has confirmed my intuition of what happened in deliberations - there were some who wanted to convict but were most likely influenced on the matter of manslaughter. I am sure that the right leaning mentalities in that room were the strongest and most active.
Right! And then she referred to the lady who suffered a home invasion. And she referred to all the robberies they had had at the complex. Was that ever presented to the jury? The history of burglaries at the Retreat at Twin Lakes?
O'Mara said in closing he put the police reports in evidence. I'm pretty sure the "looking in windows" part came from one of George's statements that the prosecution put in evidence. Pretty dumb of the prosecution.
You're correct. It wasn't in the trial. She lost some credibility with me she brought up "looking in windows" and stand-your-ground which wasn't part of the defense at all.
Now we know why she was taking so many notes. I'm sure they all got several proposals from publishers. I honestly don't fault a jury member from wanting to write about the experience, especially if the verdict was controversial. However, I'd rather see the jury members do a book together...each contributing a couple of chapters from their own points of view. This woman obviously didn't struggle with her vote like three others ones did. A while back there was a jury who all went on CNN together and THAT was far more interesting than this woman's.
If they really didn't get that information in the trial, then she seems to have been paying more attention to the case than she revealed during jury selection.
Also, her husband is an attorney, although probably not a criminal attorney. Still, it's hard to believe they never discussed the case.
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