She did her job because of the other jurors with brains who forced her to do so. If all the jurors were like her, GZ would be in jail now. I believe she's the one who initially voted guilty of murder 2.
O’Mara is cutting her more slack than I will. Her statements are confused and contradictory. Thousands of juries have delt with the same insructions but she couldn’t figure them out on her own. The other jurors had to set her straight. I wonder how long she alone held up the verdict. She’s also conflicted from the blowback for being the minority juror who “let him off”.
I couldn’t tell you how many juries I have been on where we spent all our time behind the closed doors convincing 1 or 2 jurors that they are wrong (stupid). One time there was one juror who when asked why she was voting not guilty said.....they didn’t prove he was guilty. I replied......yes they did, it was while you were sleeping. I had looked over at her and she was asleep!
She is.
I think O'Mara is being a bit overly kind here.
Not as much as you might think, because I think this juror's words have been twisted somewhat. She seems to stand by the decision. And she didn't seem to come up with the declaration that Zimmerman "got away with murder." Those words seem to have been put in her mouth. She repeated them and seems to have somewhat agreed with them, putting her own spin on the words. But the words really don't seem to have been hers to start with.
Still, how anyone could possibly sit through the trial that I saw, and see the same evidence I saw, and have the necessary information on the legal process, and go into the jury room and in the initial vote say that Zimmerman should be convicted of 2nd degree murder is beyond me. It's beyond me how a juror could vote even that he be convicted of manslaughter is beyond me as well.
There simply wasn't any real evidence of anything other than legitimate self defense.