article_snippet: The case drew extra attention due to the film based on Kyle's memoir.
article_snippet: Ahead of the trial, Routh's lawyers had argued that the popularity of the movie, which grossed $300 million at the box office, would mean whose son Chris could not get a fair trial.
article_snippet: And speaking on Good Morning America on Wednesday, the jurors admitted some of the jurors had seen the movie - but insisted the jurors had put that out of the jurors minds when making the jurors decision. '
article_snippet: It gave me a better outlook on Chris' role as a Marine,' one of the jurors, Barrett Hutchinson, said. '
article_snippet: I took the fact that Chris' was a marine out of my mind and looked at Chris' as a person, looked at Chad as a person, looked at Eddie as a person and, you know, tried to make reasonable judgment.'
highlights_snippet: Defense team tried to move a re-trial from Chris Kyle's hometown of Stephenville, Texas, where Chris Kyle is regarded as a hero .
  
highlights_snippet: Defense team argued the movie American Sniper swayed jurors' views of Routh .