( CNN ) -- George Zimmerman 's defense team says people should delve into the `` substance '' of other comments made by a juror who claimed the man who killed Trayvon Martin `` got away with murder . '' Juror B29 got it right when she said the six Florida jurors had to follow the law , rather than their hearts , Mark O'Mara said in a statement Friday . The 36-year-old juror , who used only her first name of Maddy out of concerns for her safety , told ABC on Thursday that she and others on the panel felt Zimmerman was guilty , but that was n't enough . `` I stand by the decision because of the law , '' she said . `` If I stand by the decision because of my heart , he would have been guilty . '' She also said , `` George Zimmerman got away with murder , but you ca n't get away from God . '' Juror to ABC : He 'got away with murder ' At the beginning of deliberations , Maddy told ABC , she wanted to convict Zimmerman of second-degree murder . But she realized on the second day of deliberations that there was n't enough proof to convict him of murder or the lesser charge of manslaughter . Juror B29 said the evidence showed that Zimmerman was guilty of killing Martin , 17 , in February 2012 at a neighborhood in Sanford , Florida . `` But as the law was read to me , if you have no proof that he killed him intentionally , you ca n't say he 's guilty , '' she told ABC . O'Mara said that the defense acknowledged Zimmerman killed Martin -- in self-defense . He said a `` juror 's job is not to decide what a law should be , her job is to apply the facts presented at trial to the laws they are instructed about . '' `` We do ask jurors not to reach their verdicts based on what their hearts tell them ; for the verdict , a juror must set aside emotions and follow the law , '' said O'Mara . `` Based on her comments , Juror B29 accepted a tremendous burden , set her feelings aside , and cast a verdict based the evidence presented in court and on the law she was provided . '' His statement labeled B29 as a `` model juror . '' Thursday night , Martin 's mother said she was devastated after hearing the juror 's comments . `` It is devastating for my family to hear the comments from juror B29 , comments which we already knew in our hearts to be true . That George Zimmerman literally got away with murder , '' Sybrina Fulton said in a written statement . `` This new information challenges our nation once again to do everything we can to make sure that this never happens to another child . '' Maddy is the second juror to speak about the high-profile case since the all-female jury acquitted Zimmerman earlier this month . She and other jurors also have identified themselves by their numbers from the jury pool . Opinion : What if both were white ? Last week , the woman known as Juror B37 told CNN 's `` Anderson Cooper 360 '' that Zimmerman `` did n't do anything unlawful '' and was `` justified '' in shooting 17-year-old Martin last year . Zimmerman has been out of the public eye since the jury found him not guilty of second-degree murder on July 13 . Zimmerman , who is Hispanic , had a confrontation with the unarmed African-American teen after calling police to report a suspicious person , and he said he shot Martin in self-defense . Juror B29 stressed that she and the other jurors took their responsibility seriously . `` I do n't want people to think that we did n't think about this , and we did n't care about Trayvon Martin , because we did . We 're very sad that it happened to him , '' she said . Trayvon 's mom : Law let Zimmerman off the hook . CNN 's Catherine E. Shoichet contributed to this report .
`` I stand by the decision because of the law , '' juror B29 told ABC . Zimmerman defense : Jurors must vote by the law , not their hearts . Juror B29 also said Zimmerman `` got away with murder ''