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July 25th, 2013
05:43 PM ET

Zimmerman juror to ABC: He 'got away with murder'

(CNN) - A juror in the George Zimmerman trial says she feels the man who killed Trayvon Martin "got away with murder."

"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," Juror B29 told ABC, according to an article posted on the network's website Thursday. "(But) the law couldn't prove it."

The juror, who used only her first name of Maddy out of concerns for her safety, told ABC that she and others on the panel felt Zimmerman was guilty, but that wasn't enough.

"You can't put the man in jail even though in our hearts we felt he was guilty," she said. "But we had to grab our hearts and put it aside and look at the evidence."

Maddy is the second juror to speak about the high-profile case since the six-person, all-female jury acquitted Zimmerman earlier this month.

She and other jurors also have identified themselves by their numbers from the jury pool.

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Watch the video below for analysis of Maddy's remarks with CNN leagl analyst Mark Nejame, CNN legal correspondent Jean Casarez, and Washington Post columnist Clinton Yates discuss.

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