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Filled with regrets and doubt, the only minority on the Florida jury made up
entirely of women that found George Zimmerman not guilty of murdering
Trayvon Martin says that she “can’t sleep at night.”
“George Zimmerman got away with murder,” Maddy, who declined to give her
last name, said in an interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts on "Good Morning
America," “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."
A 36-year-old of Puerto Rican decent, Maddy said that while she and many of
her fellow jurors believed that Zimmerman was guilty of murdering Martin at
a housing community in Sanford, Fla. on Feb. 26, “the law couldn’t prove
it.”
"You can't put the man in jail even though in our hearts we felt he was
guilty," the woman, who has previously been known as Juror B29, told Roberts
. "But we had to grab our hearts and put it aside and look at the evidence."
The realization that the jury would likely not find Zimmerman guilty of
second-degree murder began to set in on the second day of deliberations,
Maddy 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."
The question at the center of the case was whether Zimmerman, who confessed
to shooting Martin, had acted in self-defense, and was therefore justified
in using his gun against the teenager.
"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."
Though she felt that her hands were tied when it came to rendering the
verdict, Maddy says she still struggles with the outcome of the case.
"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 Trayvon's Martin's mother because there's no way that
any mother should feel that pain," she said.
The full interview with the juror will air on Friday on “Good Morning
America.” |
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