Ten Seminole County residents, six of them women, have been selected to serve as the jury in the high-profile second-degree murder trial of 17-year-0ld Florida teen Trayvon Martin, according to the Sun Sentinel.
Self-appointed neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman faces second-degree murder charges in the case that left the unarmed teenager dead of a gunshot wound last year after Zimmerman told police he thought the teen looked suspicious and ignored their admonishments not to follow him.
The trial is expected to last up to four weeks, and in addition to the six female jurors, five of them white, four alternates, two male and two female, were also tabbed. Among the selected jurors are a pair of middle-age to elder jurors who told the court they are the wives of attorneys and either believed there was an “altercation and the gun went off” or the many protests in the aftermath of the shooting were forms of “rioting.”
Martin did after he and Zimmerman tussled and the self-appointed neighborhood watch captain pulled a gun and shot him on a rainy night near the gated community of his father’s home after he had walked to a nearby corner store to buy soda and candy for him and his younger brother.
Zimmerman claims he only acted in self-defense after the teen attacked him during their brief encounter.
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