One of the women on the jury that found not guilty on Saturday has already signed with a book agent.
According to Reuters, literary agent Sharlene Martin said Monday that the juror “hopes to write a book explaining why the all-women panel had ‘no option’ but to find Zimmerman not guilty of murder.”
When I consider the qualifications to write a compelling examination of the intense debate in a jury room — a modern day 12 Angry Men, if you will, I surprisingly don’t think of a woman who gets all her news from The Today Show.
Nor one who describes the victim simply as a “boy of color.”
If Disney makes a movie of the book, she’ll be played by a vulture…
So, this is happening.
One of the women on the jury that found not guilty on Saturday has already signed with a book agent.
According to Reuters, literary agent Sharlene Martin said Monday that the juror “hopes to write a book explaining why the all-women panel had ‘no option’ but to find Zimmerman not guilty of murder.”
When I consider the qualifications to write a compelling examination of the intense debate in a jury room — a modern day 12 Angry Men, if you will, I surprisingly don’t think of a woman who gets all her news from The Today Show.
Nor one who describes the victim simply as a “boy of color.”
Posted by Stephen Robinson on July 15, 2013 in Social Commentary
Tags: book deal, George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin