Juror B37 Changes Her Mind

 Juror B37 in the George Zimmerman trial has abandoned her plans to write a book explaining why she found him not guilty of murder in the shooting of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin. The jury’s decision sparked protests across the United States by activists who said Martin was targeted because he was black. The unidentified juror B37 had signed with Martin Literary Management, an agency based in Mercer Island, Washington, said firm’s president, Sharlene Martin, in a statement on Monday. 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 say why she has changed her mind,but said her isolation in the jury room meant she had not been fully aware of the outrage over the case. She did say in a written statement ,”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.

The jury has  found Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watchman, not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the February 26, 2012, shooting death of Martin, who was 17. Jurors have remained anonymous under a judge’s order. Juror B37 has been described as a mother of two children who grew up in a military family and used to have a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

Other book deals from Martin agency include a book by Jessica Buchanan, an American aid worker who was kidnapped and rescued by U.S. special forces in Somalia in 2012 after she was held three months in captivity. Another upcoming book  based on the high-profile trial of Jodi Arias, who was convicted earlier this year of first-degree murder in the death of her ex-boyfriend.