Twitter user swiftly sabotages Zimmerman juror’s book deal

[The Straight Story]

A Twitter user who launched a social media campaign to stop a juror in the George Zimmerman case from getting a book deal has succeeded in her effort — within six hours.

On Monday, Juror B37, one of six female jurors who made the controversial decision to acquit Zimmerman in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, told Anderson Cooper that she had signed with a literary agent to shop a tell-all book about her experience during the three-week, televised trial.

The agent, Sharlene Martin, told Yahoo News that the juror reached out to her on the advice of a producer from a morning show and that the juror had said she was planning to publish the book anonymously “given the sensitivity of the verdict and the outpouring of mixed reactions by the American public.”

Then came the social media campaign.

...

The petition quickly reached 1,000 signatures, and the Martin Literary Agency released a statement late Monday:

After careful consideration regarding the proposed book project with Zimmerman Juror B37, I have decided to rescind my offer of representation in the exploration of a book based upon this case.

Juror B37 then announced she was abandoning the book idea:

I realize it was necessary for our jury to be sequestered in order to protect our verdict from unfair outside influence, but that isolation shielded me from the depth of pain that exists among the general public over every aspect of this 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. 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.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/news/twitter-user-single-handedly-sabotages-zimmerman-juror-book-140226787.html

[Berlum]

1. Well there you have it

[avebury]

2. She is so full of sh*t!

She was (allegedly) going to co-write the book with her husband who was not sequestered during the trial and who would have had to be deaf, dumb, and blind to have not noticed the public reaction to this trial and an inkling about how this book deal would have been perceived. And we are to believe that this couple never talked when she go home from the trial (and before the book deal was announced).

If I had been one of the other five members of the jury I would be so POd at this idiot. She has thrown a lot of dirt on the whole process now. There are a lot of people who are really upset with the verdict and more and more bits and pieces of information keep coming out that perhaps we should be upset about what happened.

Mr. I am friends with Mark O'Mara attorney and Mrs. Clueless are both dumber then a sack of rocks.

[Blue_Tires]

3. Even if the book went forward, the proceeds should have went to the Martin family

or some African-American charity in the Sanford area...

[abelenkpe]

5. Do you think that particular juror would have

freely donated profits to an African American charity or the Martin family? Kinda got the impression that she was a bigot.

[Blue_Tires]

7. Not freely, but I was thinking there would be a good amount of

public pressure leaning on her and especially the publisher...

[Incitatus]

4. Is anyone here familiar with jury sequesteration?

Is it possible she was in contact with her husband during the trial? Maybe he was the one in contact with the publishing company during the trial and was able to discuss it with her.

[Spazito]

8. Yes, she would have contact with her family during sequestration...

the Judge made that clear during voir dire to the prospective jurors. She said the contact would be limited but they would be allowed to have them. What we don't know is what that contact consisted of, whether it was only phone contact or actual physical contact through visits of the family with her.

[TeeYiYi]

9. I would like to know if she was in contact...

...with her lawyer husband but I'd also like to know if her husband was in contact with the defense team. I hope someone looks into phone records, etc. to see what the lying lawyer was up to during the trial.

I'd like to see the juror and her lawyer husband charged with perjury and jury tampering.

TYY

[The Straight Story]

11. I bet the NSA knows

[NightWatcher]

6. so she wasnt taking notes for the trial but for her book?

They should prevent jurors from being able to profit from a crime just as the prevent the criminals from profitting.

[L0oniX]

10. Disaster economics is for corporations ...not asshole jurors.

[Auntie Bush]

12. Thank goodness she changed her mind (got smart or wised up) for she was a bigot.

She didn't like Rachael so she ignored her testimony.
She was impressed with Zimmerman's friend's war experience...so she believed him.
Now she is finally making an intelligent decision.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

13. What does her fucking husband's views have to do with this?

He wasn't on the jury.

We need to turn the term "B37" into a four-letter word. As in, "You're such a fucking B37. Go fuck yourself!"