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Everyone's working off stereotypes, so I won't apologize for doing the same. From our perspective, it’s all we have. And in Florida, at least the racial stereotypes are certainly alive and well, and real. But how will that play out in this case, where a Latino shoots a black kid? Hard to say. There is a strong bias against Latinos (Cubans) in the minds of a lot of Floridians, as is there against black people in the minds of others.
There is also something to the stereotype that women are less prone to convict, especially if it means possibly putting anyone on death row. And maybe they can be swayed by emotional pleas from the shooter? Or maybe not, women can be pretty hard-nosed, too.
But I would expect an all-woman jury to be more sympathetic to the young unarmed kid who was shot dead than the shooter. So I think it's far from certain that an all women almost (5 out of 6) all-white jury will not convict Zimmerman.
We might actually have a fairly balanced jury; it might be as fair as could be reasonably been expected.
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