guilty of something. and after hours and hours and hours of deliberating over the law and reading it over and over and over again, we decided there s just no way other place to go. we had three not guilties, one second-degree murder and two manslaughters. so half the jury felt he was not guilty, two manslaughters and one second-degree. exactly. can you say do you want to say where you were on that? i was not guilty. it sort of sounds like from the way she was saying that, she was not guilty. she was very confident in that, right? she was from that point of view early on. you already said if you were on the state, the prosecution there you might have put a strike against that particular juror. did you feel that way about any of the other jurors? i certainly felt the strongest about her, erin, and here s why. one of the things that she said in jury selection is that she would give more credibility and more believability to law enforcement. now typically in a criminal case
those three were able to be sort of swung all the way to not guilty. that surprises me a lot more and it really says something. some people said this prosecution team didn t prove second degree murder, this prosecution team didn t prove manslaughter. well, they started out with three jurors in favor of conviction so i think that speaks volumes. were you surprised, mark? no, not necessarily. i think a jury is often a microcosm of society. if you were to poll the country, i suspect we d be pretty much split 50/50. and i think it breaks down exactly along those lines. a percentage think it should have been manslaughter, a smaller percentage think murder two and half the country thinks it should in fact be not guilty. but once you get into the group dynamics and the interaction, things often change. there s really something strong to a jury dynamic rather than an individual looking at that.
hours before finding george zimmerman not guilty saturday night. what you may not realize is just how emotional and grueling that entire process turned out to be for the jurors. more now from anderson cooper s fascinating and exclusive interview with the juror called b-37. did you take an initial vote to see where everybody was? we did. how was that first vote? we had three not guilties, one second degree murder and two manslaughter. can you say do you want to say where you were on that? i was not guilty. how do you then go about deciding things? we looked through pretty much everything. that s why it took us so long. we were looking through the evidence and then at the end we just we got done and then we just started looking at the law,
the first day we got all the evidence on the tables and the walls. then we asked for an inventory, because it was just too time-consuming looking for evidence when it was in no order whatsoever. did you take an initial vote to see where everybody was? we did. where was everybody? how was that first vote? we had three not guilties, one second degree murder and two manslaughters. half the jury felt he was not guilty, two manslaughters and one second degree? exactly. can you say where you were on that? i was not guilty. so going into it once all the evidence was presented, you felt he was not guilty? i did. i think the medical examiner could have done a better job presenting trayvon s preserving trayvon s evidence they should have bagged his hands,
reached the verdict. you go into the jury room, what happened? the first day we went in, we were trying to get ourselves organized, there s no instructions on what you do, how you do it and when you do it? so we all decided. we nominated a foreman so she could have the voice and kind of run the show. so everybody s not talking over everybody. and then she could say, stop, we have to one person at a time, we have to do this. the first day we got all the evidence on the tables and the walls, then we asked for an inventory, because it was just too time-consuming looking for evidence when it was in no order whatsoever. did you take an initial vote to see where everybody was? we did. where was everybody? we had three not guilties,