trayvon martin s voice, do you know why they felt that way? she said it could have been trayvon s. so she wasn t even sure? no. she wanted to give everybody absolute out of being guilty. by you were sure it was george zimmerman s voice? i was sure it was george zimmerman s voice. and everybody else on the jury was except for that one? i think so. i think they were. i don t think there was a doubt everybody else thought it was george s voice. what did you think of george zimmerman? i think george zimmerman is a man whose heart was in the right place, but just got displaced by the vandalism in the neighborhood and wanting to catch these people so badly that he went above and beyond what he really should have done. but i think he was a little negligible negligent? negligent, sorry.
thought that one witness, besides the detective, the one witness who talked about the black males trying to get into her house, that resonated with this jury, and that plays into the archetype of, i hate to say it, the kind of racial archetype of black males as predators. something to think about in this case, the prosecution explicitly decided to make george zimmerman s life in the months leading up to this an issue. when they did that, i think the defense exploited that and were able to human ize george zimmerman. part two, the defense s own witnesses were brilliant, because they served multiple purposes. you might have a guy that came in and testified i m a medic, i know what screaming is like. a combat medic in vietnam is the kind of guy that hangs out with george zimmerman. they used these witnesses just sublimely. paul, do you think it would
different people ten different things and get ten different answers. the prosecution didn t use the word racial profiling during the case, they used the word profiling. and that was something that was worked out between the judge and the lawyers when the jury wasn t in the room. right. do you feel that george zimmerman racially profiled trayvon martin? do you think race played a role in his decision, his view of trayvon martin has suspicious? i don t think he did. just circumstances caused george to think that he might be a robber or trying to do something
states have it and florida is one. but if this had been 12 people the chances of having an african-american on the jury it would have been much higher. this county is not heavily african-american, but there is a substantial african-american presence, and i just i think the six-person jury hurt the prosecution here. it s important for a lot of viewers to understand, i ve been hearing about a jury of his peers. you don t have any constitutional guaranty to the final jury being one of your peers. all that requires is that the jury pool be culled from the reasonable cross section of the community. your ultimate jury could be just like what we saw, six females. it s interesting, paul, you
manslaughter and everything that was attached to it, it would have came out the same way. you hope you never serve on a jury again? i told them again. they said is there anything anybody wants to add to this? i said can i get out of jury duty for the rest of my life? she said you can for a year. i think i should get out of jury duty for the rest of my life. can you tell me about that last day in the jury room deliberating. did you know you were close? we were knew we were close five hours before we got to where we were, because we were slowly making progress the entire time. we didn t come to a stumbling block. we were just reading and reading and reading and knew we were progressing. did the jurors, did you all get along well?