Black Hispanic Juror says she feels "Zimmerman got away with murder"

[Robbie3000]

See this is why they like dumb people on the jury. Cause you can convince them of anything.

The only minority on the all-female jury that voted to acquitGeorge 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.

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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.

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.

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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."

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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 [as] 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.

 

[Chris.B]

Of course he did.

GZ followed the boy because he had a gun. You walk around any neighborhood without a gun as a black man, you are asking for it.

Nothing scares a white man more than a black man with a gun.
But the liberal elitists will tell you guns are bad while they live in gated communities with armed guards at night.

 

[Mr. Somebody]

She just couldnt resist the money.

Its so demonic, friends.

 

[LionofJudah]

I don't want to hear NOTHING this bytch has to say.

 

[intilectual recipricol]

bytch should feel like she played a role. She did.

"he says he shot him in self defense" > well no shyt hoe.

 

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

The black hispanic should have stood her ground in the jury room because cleary she is confused. She says she want for the 2nd degree murder charge after the end of trial, which during the trial they presented the evidence. They then "deliberated" and after some folks thought there was no evidence, she joined them. . As I said in the Trayvon Zimmerman thread, it should have been a hung jury. The black hispanic probably just could not hold her own solo. Group think gone wrong, wanting to please every and anybody.

But since she has kids, she would feel the pain later, why they get discriminated or prejudiced about and they dont have a voice and they used "laws" to cloud a racial agenda. Then she wont be able to use "race" and no one would give a damn about her kids, but she would know its race, and even then she would remain "confused"

 

[FakeNews]

Does anyone really care what this woman has to say? Yeah lets make it about yourself. I'm sure your're "hurting" just as much as Tray's mother.

 

[Marvel]

Guilty conscious is getting to her now. She also feels that race had nothing to do with GZ following TM. So why was he following him? The jurors are half retarded. She wanted to get out of there....c'mon people she has 8 kids!!! The jury selection to throw this trial was flawless. The prosecution obviously threw this trial.

 

[blackzeus]

I don't want to hear NOTHING this bytch has to say.

/thread. at this Monday morning armchair QB b*tch. She should have "stood her ground" and forced a hung jury. Now seeing the reaction and unity of blacks she comes out with this after the fact b.s. Apologies don't bring justice b*tch

 

[intilectual recipricol]

shoulda been in that jury room callin spades, spades and racist bytches, racist bytches. You sposed to fight for our kids. I got white bytches wit mixed kids on 10 about this.

 

[Robbie3000]

Surprised she was PR. I had put money she was going to be Dominican. But that's why they weed smart and educated people from juries. They hope for people who can easily be persuaded to change their minds.

 

[Dat Migo]

Wheres a pic of this lady?

 

[Type Username Here]

Wants some of that money too.

Probably shopping for a book deal.

 

[Slystallion]

LIke i said...no evidence of anything to point that Zimmerman's intent was to murder the guy. In her heart because she is biased like a lot of the posters here she felt Zimmerman had bad intentions but couldn't prove it and none of the evidence points to it and everything given went with Zimmerman's account or could not dispute Zimmerman's account. Which is the way the law works...if most of you are in the jury you would have done the same thing based on the law

 

[Nigerianwonder]

Fukk her. Cant blame no one but herself. SHE let him get away with murder. I'm sick of people talking about the law and what the law says as if it is not subject to interpretation. If it wasn't we wouldn't need juries to begin with. There was a pathway to 2nd degree murder and a pathway to manslaughter. Just required the jury to decide beyond reasonable doubt.. not all doubt(except for when a white man kills a black man apparently). I don't believe he intentionally intended to kill trayvon that night, however i have doubt the p*ssy would have never left his car without his weapon loaded and readily available. Should have been an open and shut manslaughter charge.