Juror B29 from the George Zimmerman trial has come forward and admitted to ABC News anchor Robin Roberts, she believes Zimmerman got away with murder. The only minority on the jury, juror B29 is Puerto Rican and feels she owes the Martin family an apology.
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Juror B29 did not reveal her full name and would only be identified as Maddy. B29 said the entire female jury, made up of six women, five white and one Puerto Rican believed Zimmerman was guilty, but could not send him to jail.
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The jury was instructed to take into consideration the law and the evidence produced by the prosecution and the defense. Putting aside their personal feelings the six women looked at the evidence and felt the prosecutors did not prove Trayvon Martin was murdered in cold blood.
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According to ABC News Maddy told Robin Roberts, "George Zimmerman got away with murder, but you can't get away from God. And at the end of the day, he's going to have a lot of questions and answers he has to deal with, [But] the law couldn't prove it."
Maddie told ABC, despite what the rest of the country believes, for her the George Zimmerman trial was not about race. Maddie did not want to speak on behalf of her fellow jurors, but she did not feel Zimmerman shot Martin because he was black.
The jury was also allowed to consider finding Zimmerman guilty of a lesser charge, manslaughter. Maddie says she was the juror that almost caused a hung jury, telling ABC she fought for that decision as long as she could until she realized there was simply not enough evidence to convict on manslaughter either.
"That's where I felt confused, where if a person kills someone, then you get charged for it," Maddy said to ABC. "But as the law was read to me, if you have no proof that he killed him intentionally, you can't say he's guilty."
Maddie admitted to Robin Roberts she felt mixed emotions following the not guilty verdict. She felt sorry for the Martin family and struggled with her decision. But later on, Maddie said she did not think the case should have been brought to trial in the first place.
"I felt like this was a publicity stunt. This whole court service thing to me was publicity...I felt like I let a lot of people down, and I'm thinking to myself, 'Did I go the right way? Did I go the wrong way?"
To see the full interview with Maddie watch "World News" tonight at 6:30 E.T on ABC. You can also see it on ABC's "Nightline" at 12:35 a.m. E.T and tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. E.T on "Good Morning America."
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