After 36 years in the legal profession, my opinion of the American judicial system and its criminal justice system frankly sinks lower with almost every passing day. Be it incompetent and/or shockingly biased police officers and judges, juries that seem comprised of the dumbest of the dumb, selective prosecution that disproportionately targets minorities, and/or laws that aid the murderer, things are rotten and not trending for the better. Now, after allowing George Zimmerman to get away with murder, another member of the jury apparently has a guilty conscience. The Virginian Pilot looks at this case of too little remorse too late. Here are excerpts:
The second juror to speak publicly told ABC News in an interview made available Thursday that she feels George Zimmerman got away with murder for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, but that there wasn't enough evidence at trial to convict him under Florida law.
Juror B29 told Robin Roberts that she favored convicting Zimmerman of second-degree murder when deliberations began by the six-member, all-women jury. "I was the juror that was going to give them a hung jury," she said. "I fought to the end."
"George Zimmerman got away with murder, but you can't get away from God," she said. "And at the end of the day, he's going to have a lot of questions and answers he has to deal with."
Juror B29 is the second panelist to go public with what went on during deliberations earlier this month. She allowed her face to be shown and used her first name, Maddy, unlike Juror B37, who was interviewed on CNN last week with her face obscured.
As noted in previous posts, "stand your ground" laws literally allow murderers to get away with killing people because of the way in which the burden of proof is shifted against the victim and the prosecution.
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