The juror had planned to write the book with her husband, who is an attorney, explaining how the jury had "no option" but to find Zimmerman not guilty, but she subsequently decided not to proceed with publication, Martin added later.
The juror did not spell out the reasons for her change of heart but said her isolation in the jury room meant she had not been fully aware of the outrage over the case.
"The potential book was always intended to be a respectful observation of the trial from my and my husband's perspectives solely and it was to be an observation that our 'system' of justice can get so complicated that it creates a conflict with our 'spirit' of justice," she said in the written statement.
"Now that I am returned to my family and to society in general, I have realized that the best direction for me to go is away from writing any sort of book and return instead to my life as it was before I was called to sit on this jury," she added. . . .
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
The reaction of so many to Zimmerman verdict causes juror to drop plans to write book about jury deliberations
Posted on 8:19 AM by Unknown
The anger of the jury decision is because people have such a distorted view of the evidence. It is not surprising, but it is disappointing that a jury member could could be so intimidated into not writing a book because so many people don't understand the evidence that the jury saw. From Reuters:
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