The state Supreme Court refused to upset the verdict, because at that time the trial judge had the final power to reopen on the ground of additional evidence.
It was a terrible verdict for her at that time because no one in her community, including Dilfruz knew about this disease.
Outrage at that verdict led to Mr Gutiérrez's ouster even though he had dissolved that court too.
"When I tried my redlining lawsuit against Nationwide, in 1998, as a civil-rights lawyer, it was the largest civil-rights jury verdict in the United States at that time," he said.
"There is no question in my mind that he did it, and that it was proved in a court of law, and that every court that has looked at that jury verdict has upheld it," he said, adding that he has been subpoenaed to appear at the hearing this month in North Carolina and that he "looks forward to going wherever I need to to play whatever small role I can play in keeping him where he belongs".
The verdict: damn, that was easy.
He also addressed the Barry Bonds verdict at the meeting, saying that he would not consider changing Bonds's records after the conviction on obstruction of justice last week.
And the verdict that was rendered at the ballot box could be seen in virtually every national opinion survey.
He added: "I have got to be very, very concerned at an inquest verdict that returns a verdict of unlawful killing involving, as the inquest did, one of my police officers.
One of the answers, among the most mortifying, and rightly underlying the rage at the verdict, is that Trayvon Martin wasn't supposed to act like a man.
