george was right there to rescue them, to help them out. and it took, you know, caring, a loving spirit, so to speak, that would help a person like that. and i think the fact that she tends to be a pet rescuer, having like multiple animals in her home, that she identified that caretaker in him, she identified herself being very much like him in their character. so danny, susan s saying she identified with george. does that smell like bias toward zimmerman to you? well, ultimately, sure. i mean, at the end of the case it s acceptable for a juror to have some kind of bias. after all, they ve developed an opinion about the case. the question is did she bring some by bias to the table? and reasonable minds may differ about that. that s why people like jury selection consultants can help suss out those tendencies better than most mortals can because it is a very, very complex science, the sociology of selecting jurors. however, this particular juror
stereotypes although they ve been kicking around for years. you can look at the female aspect as there s some wisdom that females are more law enforcement friendly, so maybe the prosecution thought that. there s also the idea that a female might be more parental and might see trayvon martin as a child that shouldn t have been injured. so i don t necessarily think that the prosecution made some huge blunder putting this juror on. they may have had a good reason to think that she was an acceptable juror. and remember, when it comes to jury selection, it s usually some juror that s in the middle that both sides have something they like. otherwise, they d exercise a peremptory and get them out of there. susan, you re a jury consultant. you re a body language expert. what struck you the most about what this juror, juror b-37, had to say? . well, i think that she identified with george zimmerman. she is a caretaker. and by looking at, you know, all this evidence in the case and she s loo
at night, dark at night, raining, and anybody would think anybody walking down the road, stopping and turning and looking, if that s exactly what happened, is suspicious. and george had said he didn t recognize who he was. well, was that a common belief on the jury, that race was not that race did not play a role in this? i think all of us thought race did not play a role. so nobody felt race played a role? i don t think so. none of the jurors. i can t speak for them. that wasn t part of the discussion in the jury room? no. we never had that discussion. it didn t come up, the question of did george zimmerman profile trayvon martin because he was african-american? no. i think he just profiled him because he was the neighborhood watch and he profiled anybody that came in acting strange. i think it was just circumstances happened that he saw trayvon at the exact time that he thought he was suspicious. the prosecution tried to paint george zimmerman as a
do something bad in the neighborhood because of all that had gone on previously. there were an unbelievable number of robberies in the neighborhood. so you don t believe race played a role in this case? i don t think it did. i think if there was another person, spanish, white, asian, if they came in the same situation where trayvon was, i think george would have reacted the exact same way. why do you think george zimmerman found trayvon martin suspicious, then? because he was cutting through the back. it was raining. he said he was looking in houses as he was walking down the road. kind of just not having a purpose to where he was going. he was stopping and starting. but, i mean, that s george s rendition of it. but i think the situation where trayvon got into, him being late