ORANGE COUNTY, Fla.,None — WFTV sat down for a one-on-one interview with juror number 3, Jennifer Ford, to talk about Casey Anthony's not guilty verdict.
Ford, a 32-year-old nursing student, claims to have known nothing about the case before she was seated on the jury. She said a not guilty verdict doesnt mean she thinks Casey is innocent.
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She said there was one thing she was waiting to hear the entire trial and that was what exactly happened to Caylee. Without that, she said she couldnt convict Casey of murder.
I am tired and Im stressed out, said Ford.
Ford said she's ready to put this whole trial behind her.
WFTV reporter Kenneth Craig asked how she and other jurors arrived at their not guilty verdicts for Caseys most serious charges, including first-degree murder.
We all determined, it just wasn't enough to say definitively that a crime was committed and that's what we needed to know. We needed to know how she died, said Ford.
Ford told WFTV that she made her decision before the deliberations and is still sticking to it.
I knew before I went in that there was a lot of circumstantial evidence that was pretty damning, but at the same time I didn't know how the little girl died, I had no idea how that child died, said Ford.
Now that you've had time to think about your decision a little more, how do you feel about the decision you made? asked Craig.
I am confident and it's a decision that was made collectively, she replied.
She said deliberations were tense and argumentative at times before everyone agreed on the verdict. She also said she's not concerned about all of the trial watchers who said the jury's verdict was just not right.
Like Casey, or hate her, in this country she gets a fair trial, said Ford.
WFTV also asked about the sexual abuse allegations mentioned in court, and Ford said she didn't believe them and they didn't weigh on her decision one bit.
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