[conservatism_IS_compassion]

What's the problem here? She heard the prosecution's case and found insufficient evidence. She found the defendant 'Not Guilty' based upon the instructions to find in favor of reasonable doubt. 'The End', right?

So she's got personal feelings gnawing at her based purely upon emotion. That's fine, and also irrelevant. She did the right thing. No need for anyone to call her an idiot when she followed instructions correctly.

She acceded to the pressure of the other jurors who wanted to do the right thing. Well and good, the right verdict came out. But then instead of remaining silent and being thought a fool, she spoke:

“he got away with murder”

and removed all doubt.

She thinks she is upset at the “Not guilty” verdict; she doesn’t know what being upset over what you have done is, until she finds someone guilty unnecessarily - and realizes what she has done to the defendant and his family. Trayvon is dead, and would still be dead if they had sent Zimmerman up on Murder 2. But the defendant who’s convicted is in jail, his wife has no life, and his mother’s and father’s lives are wrecked as well. Then juror B29 really would find herself staring at the ceiling at night, instead of sleeping.

The real problem this scatterbrain manifests is the fact that in this high-profile a case, intelligent and alert members of the public have been disqualified in droves by the propaganda directed against the defendant. We are told that the defendant is entitled to the presumption of innocence - but anyone who understood what was being done to Zimmerman, and believed that he was entitled to that presumption would have donated to his legal defense - or at least, seriously considered it. Now, the question is, “Can someone who has contributed to the defense sit on the jury?” If you say, “Obviously not,” what you have just done is to cull the fair-minded out of the jury pool.

The jury has brought back a “Not guilty on all counts” verdict. Zimmerman is officially no more guilty than you or I. Can we not say, even in retrospect, that anyone who accorded Zimmerman the presumption of innocence enough to have taken a position against his attempted railroading and was excused from the jury on that account, was excused wrongly?

[The KG9 Kid]

Juror B29 only repeated the phrase 'he got away with murder' in responding to the context that Robin Roberts of 'Good Morning America' used in introducing the phrase.

Read Zimmerman's defense attorney Mark O'Mara's website explaining why she's the model juror.