answers he has to deal with but the law couldn t prove it. matty says she was the holdout but on the second day of deliberations she realized the evidence just want there to convict zimmerman under the law. she seas as much as we were trying to find this man guilty, they gave you a booklet that tells you the truth and as match as we were trying to, we couldn t do it. she does say she feels she owes trayvon martin s parents an apology. it s hard for me to sleep, it s hard for me to eat because i feel i was forcibly included in trayvon martin s death. as i carry him on my back, i m hurting as much as trayvon s mother because there s no way that any mother should feel that pain. a lot to digest here.
i hope he gets some peace. because i m sure he s going to be onslaught by media for months at a time. i hope his family can live a normal life after a while. i don t know how he s ever going to do that. but i hope he can. he ll never forget, but i hope he can. also speaking out, former president jimmy carter, and he s agreeing with the jury s verdict. i think the jury made the right decision based on the evidence presented because the prosecution inadvertently set the standard so high, that the jury had to be convinced that it was a deliberate act by zimmerman that he was not at all defending himself. and so, if it s not a moral question it was a legal question. coming up on new day, much more on the aftermath of the
new revelations from juror b-37 in the george zimmerman trial as four other jurors push back against they are story. final days. the coroner announcing cory monteith died of a toxic mix of drugs and alcohol. new video of his last days alive. and how his tv star girlfriend is coping. your new day starts right now. announcer: this is new day with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. good morning, everybody. it s july 17th, 6:00 in the east. i m chris cuomo. and i m kate bolduan. we re going to have much more on the reaction of george zimmerman verdict. new revelations from juror b-37 speaking exclusively to our anderson cooper. it turns out some wanted to convict zimmerman just couldn t find a way legally to do it. this as protests continue across much of the country, though much
it s normal. it wouldn t surprise me if the juror that wanted to leave was a holdout juror and not appreciating the pressure and the situation. and wanted out of it. that happens actually pretty commonly that you have one on the other side of things with being pressured to going along with the group vote. and so that person is going to think of a reason to get out of that jury room. now, if she actually had really needed to go and really couldn t keep continue to deliberate, then she would have had to have been removed and an alternate would replace her. she obviously didn t need it that badly. didn t feel that badly enough that she was willing to actually leave. and she let them persuade her to stay. let me push you on that a little, marcia. sure. you re saying that possibly and of course we know we re speculating here that possibly the holdout juror might have been the one that was voting to convict zimmerman of
if i was him, i would. reporter: as parents, what would you say to trayvon martin s parents? that we are deeply sorry for this tragedy. deeply sorry. and we pray for trayvon martin. we pray for trayvon martin. abc s barbara walters. they were praying for peace yesterday as well in sanford, of course, where the trial took place. leaders were urging residents to move forward after the verdict. also today we are learning more about what went on inside that jury room. a woman cnn identified as juror b-37 says three women on the panel initially wanted to convict zimmerman, but she says the evidence just wasn t there. i think he s guilty of not using good judgment. when he was in the car and he called 911, he shouldn t have gotten out of that car. she said that trayvon martin bears some of the blame for what