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    Travyon 'played a huge role' in own death

    Zimmerman juror: Travyon 'played a huge role' in own death

    Shannon Rae Green hosts USA NOW for July 16, 2013, covering social media's reaction to a juror in the George Zimmerman trial signing a book deal to write about her experience.

    Mike James and Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY 9:12 p.m. EDT July 16, 2013

    Juror B-37 says Trayvon Martin played a huge role in his own death by attacking George Zimmerman after he was followed


    George Zimmerman stands for instructions from Judge Debra Nelson during his trial in Seminole Circuit Court in Sanford, Fla.(Photo: Gary W. Green, Orlando Sentinel, via AP)

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    • Says she wants public to know that the jury was sensitive to what happened to 17-year-old
    • 17-year-old victim could have ignored Zimmerman and simply gone home, juror says


    A juror who has been vocal since the acquittal of George Zimmerman said Tuesday night that Trayvon Martin "played a huge role" in his own death.

    "When George confronted him . . . he could have walked away and gone home," the woman, identified only as juror B-37, said of the 17-year-old victim in an interview on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°. "He didn't have to do whatever he did and come back and be in a fight."

    But she added that she and other jurors nevertheless felt a lot of sympathy for what happened to Trayvon and that she wished she could have given his family "the verdict they wanted."

    "I don't want people to think that we didn't think about Trayvon Martin," she said, her voice appearing to crack with emotion. "We did."

    She said that the jury deliberations were intense. She said she and others wanted to find something they could convict Zimmerman of, but there was nothing legally that they could do.

    "I wanted to find him guilty of not using his senses, but you can't fault anybody," she said of Zimmerman. "You can't charge him with anything because he didn't do anything unlawful."

    She said she believed the situation got out of control, partly because of what both Zimmerman and Trayvon did.

    "George got in a little too deep," she said. "But Trayvon got mad and attacked him."

    The juror said earlier in the day Tuesday that she is dropping plans to write about her account of the controversial case.

    The juror, still known only by her court designation as juror B-37, issued the statement less than 24 hours after her new literary agent, Sharlene Martin, had announced plans for a book co-authored by the juror's husband, who is an attorney.

    Martin tweeted the juror's change of plans Tuesday and also announced that she had decided to rescind her offer of representation.

    The juror said in her statement that the isolation of being sequestered "shielded me from the depth of pain that exists among the general public over every aspect of this case."

    WATCH: Juror B-37 goes public on the Zimmerman verdict

    "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."

    Martin, in announcing initially on Monday that she had signed the juror, said the book would deal with serving on a sequestered jury in a highly publicized murder trial and the importance of following the letter of the law.

    "The reader will also learn why the jurors had no option but to find Zimmerman not guilty due to the manner in which he was charged and the content of the jury instructions," Martin had said Monday.

    Martin also said at the time that the juror had approached her within 24 hours of the verdict and had been referred by a "high-ranking producer from one of the morning shows."

    Juror B-37 had quickly staked out a high-profile in the case after the verdict, appearing on Anderson Cooper 360 on Monday night.

    She told the CNN anchor that Zimmerman was "a man whose heart was in the right place," but he went too far and did not use good judgment.

    According to notes from the jury selection process, juror B-37 is a white, middle-aged woman from Seminole County who works as a chiropractor. She is the daughter of an Air Force captain, has two adult children and has been married to a space attorney for 20 years.

    Under pre-trial questioning, she described the protests that took place in Sanford, Fla., after the shooting as "rioting."

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/16/george-zimmerman-juror-book-drops-plan/2520159/
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    How many middle-aged female Chiropractors are there in the county......To much info was given out and next thing you know.....she has a deadly accident!!!!!
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    4 jurors distance themselves from Juror B37

    By MIKE SCHNEIDER
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    By MIKE SCHNEIDER The Associated Press
    Last modified: 2013-07-17T03:25:15Z
    Published: Tuesday, Jul. 16, 2013 - 7:34 pm
    Last Modified: Tuesday, Jul. 16, 2013 - 8:25 pm

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    ORLANDO, Fla. -- Four of the jurors at the George Zimmerman trial distanced themselves late Tuesday from statements that another juror made in a televised interview.

    The four jurors issued a brief statement on court stationary saying that the opinions expressed by Juror B37 to CNN's Anderson Cooper on Monday night are not representative of their views.

    "The opinions of Juror B37, expressed on the Anderson Cooper show were her own, and not in any way representative of the jurors listed below," said the statement, signed by Jurors B51, B76, E6 and E40.

    Juror B37 said the actions of Zimmerman and 17-year-old Trayvon Martin both led to the teenager's fatal shooting last year, but that Zimmerman didn't actually break the law.

    The four other jurors said in their statement that Martin's death weighed on them.
    "Serving on this jury has been a highly emotional and physically draining experience for each of us," the statement said. "The death of a teenager weighed heavily on our hearts but in the end we did what the law required us to do."

    They also made a request for privacy. The court has not released the names of the six-woman jury, which included five whites and one woman who appeared to reporters to be Hispanic.

    The interview came two days after the jury acquitted Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch volunteer, of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Martin in a gated community in Sanford, Fla. Martin was black, and Zimmerman identifies himself as Hispanic. Zimmerman was not arrested for 44 days, and the delay in charging him led to protests from those who believed race was a factor in the handling of the case.

    While prosecutors accused Zimmerman of profiling Martin, Zimmerman maintained he acted in self-defense. He claimed Martin was slamming his head into the concrete sidewalk when he fired the gun.

    In the CNN interview, Juror B37 said she didn't believe that Zimmerman followed Martin because of his race. 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.

    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 29-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 gave 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. She also believed Martin's actions contributed to his death.

    "I think George got in a little bit too deep, which he shouldn't have been there, but Trayvon decided that he wasn't going to let him scare him and get the one-over, up on him or something," she said. "I think Trayvon got mad and attacked him. "

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