Nick, you’ve got a lot of catching up to do on this issue. I suggest that you go over to the Conservative Treehouse at
http://www.theconservativetreehouse.com
and read up. The fact is that witness 8 may be a figment of the imagination of the “Scheme Team” as they are known at the CTH. Ben Crump first presented this supposed witness as a 16 year old girl who needed her privacy because she was so distraught over Trayvon’s death that she couldn’t even attend his funeral. He played that terrible quality recording of her speaking for the press, and then Angela Corey’s office got involved with her. The problem was, by the time she sat down with prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda for her deposition a few days or weeks later, she had suddenly become 18 years old, and she doesn’t sound AT ALL like the same girl that was on the tape that Ben Crump played. How do we know? We know because Ben Crump had allowed ABC reporter Matt Gutman to be present when he interviewed the supposed witness over the phone. Even though the recording that Ben Crump turned over was of piss-poor quality, Gutman was recording, too, and in recent days, ABC posted part of that recording on their website. When you listen to the two girls, it doesn’t sound at all like the same girl. Listen for yourself. This is a combination of two recordings - the first girl is the one on the Matt Gutman audio recording of Ben Crump’s phone call with the first Witness 8. The 2nd girl you hear is the one who actually showed up for a deposition with Bernie de la Rionda.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KiCC_mnl6VI
Because there is some question as to the very identity of Witness 8, the defense has asked the judge repeatedly to force the prosecution to give them her address, which the judge has so far refused to do, stating that they can get her address from her when they depose her. This puts them in the position of wondering who will actually be sitting down before them to testify - the assertive girl that was on the Crump/Gutman recording, or the much more illiterate wallflower that appeared before Bernie de la Rionda.
Because witness 8 has now been caught in at least one lie, and her deposition with BDLR is a horrid mishmash of obviously coached falsehoods, the folks at the Treehouse are convinced that she will never see the inside of the courtroom. There is too much on the line for those who have foisted this lie onto the court, so they will find a way to keep her out of the proceedings. The trouble with that is that Angela Corey’s Affadavit of Probable Cause was almost entirely based on the “testimony” of witness 8, so it would seem that without witness 8, the state has no probable cause to even continue the prosecution.
If she doesn't exist, then the theory is that they don't intend to have her testify at the trial. Couldn't the defense subpoena her, if the prosecution doesn't I assume, even in Florida, if a prosecutor has a witness that doesn't exist, they are basically history.
So the court could dismiss the case without merit, and the prosecution will get a “do-over” to refile charges. This case won’t even have a chance to go to trial until 2015.