SANFORD — A middle-aged housewife in a hot-pink jacket — a prospective juror in the George Zimmerman trial — bluntly told attorneys Thursday that she believes he is innocent and that Trayvon Martin, the teenager he shot, was a troubled young man looking for a fight.
"I know his family loved him," said the woman. "He probably just started going with the wrong crowd. They probably didn't know about it."
She then gave a recitation of some of the most reputation-damaging things found on Trayvon's cellphone: a photo of a semiautomatic handgun; one of growing marijuana plants; a text he sent, describing a fight in which he took part.............
A polarizing case like this one is very good candidate for being decided by the jury selection. In fact, if both sides do as good a job as possible during jury selection, the expected result will likely be a hung jury.
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