Obviously they took the instruction a-jury-of-their-peers completely litterally and chose a group of sadistic cowards.

I watched some of this trial, and I was not impressed with the testimony from the nurse or some of the guards.  The first autopsy was an obvious cover-up, and I think they used it to compete with the later autopsy that was performed by unbiased parties. I suppose this is how they achieved reasonable doubt in the minds of the jurors. That first autopsy should never have been admitted as evidence.

[An initial autopsy by Dr. Charles Siebert, the medical examiner for Bay County, found Anderson died of natural causes from sickle cell trait. A second autopsy was ordered and another doctor concluded that the guards suffocated Anderson through their repeated use of ammonia capsules and by covering his mouth.]

These guys admitted to holding this boy's mouth shut while they shove those ammonia things up his nose, assuming he was faking his collapse, and they had the video of them doing it.  They knew they were being videotaped at that point, you have to wonder what happened when they knew the camera wasn't on them.

["There was nothing to show that this was anything but a healthy, foul-mouthed, out-of-control, young man who was malingering out on that field," Jonathan Dingus, defense attorney for guard Henry McFadden, told jurors.]

  "foul-mouthed"

This is a code word in the South, and among the conservative minded, to describe someone who is obvious trash, and deserves whatever they get.

Of course it's just a coincidence, that an all-white jury acquitted a group of mostly white folks of killing a young black boy.  That's what they call Southern Justice people, and it's still going on here in the 21st-century.

["You kill a dog, you go to jail," said her lawyer, Benjamin Crump. "You kill a little black boy and nothing happens." He spoke outside court, which is across the street from the now-closed Bay County boot camp.]

[Chuck Hobbs II, an attorney for the Florida chapter of the NAACP, said his group was considering asking the Justice Department to bring federal civil-rights charges against the guards. Defense attorneys called such a case unlikely.]

Guards acquitted in Fla. boot camp death

["The Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney's Office will conduct a thorough and independent review of all of the evidence, including the state trial transcripts, and take appropriate action if the evidence indicates a prosecutable violation of federal criminal civil rights statutes," the Justice Department said in a statement. ]