I respect that the jury took their time and reviewed the evidence, and even asked for a proper clarification on the Manslaughter charge to see if it fit.
Its not like they decided to make sure that they got one more free meal from the state even though they had decided on a verdict to get them home.
In a lot of ways this was as near to a dream jury as it gets. 6 woman, 5 white 1 hispanic or black according to the prosecutor. Four are mothers. One was a gun owner but stated that she had a problem with the type of weapons being sold and that it should be harder to get them. One of the woman during the selection process was asked if Zimmerman did something wrong while following Martin said that she thought that he did something wrong.
The jury couldn't nail Martin on the 2nd degree charge. They took a pretty careful look at manslaughter to the point of asking for a redefinition, which usually means they are trying to stick him with something and couldn't convict on that.
It was also reported that some of the jurer's were pretty emotional when they handed back the non guilty version as in they were upset.
By all concepts if you have a unarmed young man shot by another man, and the family in the audience, you want an all woman jury with the majority of them being mothers.
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