Former President Carter Defends Zimmerman Jury
Says prosecutions set standard high
The jury made the "right decision" in the George Zimmerman murder trial, former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday.
"I think the jury made the right decision based on the evidence presented, because the prosecution inadvertently set the standard so high that the jury had to be convinced that it was a deliberate act by Zimmerman that he was not at all defending himself, and so forth," Carter told Atlanta news channel WXIA. "It's not a moral question, it's a legal question and the American law requires that the jury listens to the evidence presented."
