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George Zimmerman Witness Can't Read Letter She 'Wrote' About Shooting
ABC News ^ | June 27, 2013 | SENI TIENABESO and MATT GUTMAN

Posted on 06/27/2013 7:09:04 AM PDT by iowamark

A teenage friend of Trayvon Martin was forced to admit today in the George Zimmerman murder trial that she did not write a letter that was sent to Martin's mother describing what she allegedly heard on a phone call with Martin moments before he was shot.

In a painfully embarassing moment, Rachel Jeantel was asked to read the letter out loud in court.

"Are you able to read that at all?" defense attorney Don West asked.

Jeantel, head bowed, eyes averted whispered into the court microphone, "Some but not all. I don't read cursive."

It sent a hush through the packed courtroom.

Jeantel, 19, was unable to read any of the letter save for her name...

During nearly two hours of cross examination Wednesday in which he tried to raise questions about her version of events and accused her of telling several lies under oath, including about her whereabouts during Martin's wake.

"Under oath, you created a lie and said you went to the hospital?" asked West.

"Yes," responded Jeantel. She said she lied because she didn't want to see the body.

Jeantel became increasingly agitated and scoffed when West told her that she would have to continue testifying.

She is seen as a critical witness to the prosecution because she is the only person able to say that Martin claimed that he noticed a strange man following him and that he was scared. Jeantel said Martin described the stranger as a "creepy ass cracker."

Jeantel said Martin, 17, was walking home during halftime of the NBA All-Star Game when he became unnerved because he was being followed.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; coachingthewitness; cultureofcorruption; cursive; georgezimmerman; jeantel; kangaroocourt; letter; racheljeantel; railroaded; read; shooting; trayvon; trayvonmartin; witness; zimmerman
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To: txrefugee
that this 19 year old can’t read.

I don't think she has an IQ of 80

21 posted on 06/27/2013 7:17:58 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (This space for rent)
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To: circlecity

Depending on a stupid jury and thought they would get away with it. You wouldn’t believe some of the nimrods I’ve seen on jury duty.


22 posted on 06/27/2013 7:18:33 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: Diogenesis
Better question...

Did she under oath claim to have written the letter?

23 posted on 06/27/2013 7:18:35 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,)
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To: Thane_Banquo

Did it come from a Kinko’s in Texas?


24 posted on 06/27/2013 7:18:47 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Jack Hydrazine


"Are you able to read that at all?" defense attorney Don West asked.



"Some but not all. I don't read cursive."
"It's fake, but accurate!"
25 posted on 06/27/2013 7:19:32 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Don’t mean a thing. When HLN had their mock jury on last night...THEY ALL WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ONE GAY GUY...SAID SHE WAS EXTREMELY CREDIBLE AND HELPED THE PROSECUTION!!!!!!

I am serious...they are setting this thing up for race riots...nothing else.


26 posted on 06/27/2013 7:19:38 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache (In a world where I feel so small, I can't stop thinking big.)
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To: iowamark

if she can’t read cursive, then who wrote the letter?

Is the prosecutions’ whole case based on this idiot woman????


27 posted on 06/27/2013 7:19:39 AM PDT by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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To: iowamark

In the Rockford,Illinois public school system, teaching cursive is PROHIBITED. One teacher who was trying to do it on the sly got in troble for it, and he had to stop.


28 posted on 06/27/2013 7:19:44 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There's no salvation in politics.)
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To: servantboy777

> If Zimmerman ends up convicted, it will be a huge travesty
> of justice.

Indeed.

But it he’s not convicted, there will be riots aplenty.


29 posted on 06/27/2013 7:20:00 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: iowamark
"I don't read cursive."

That explains a lot. Many of America's founding documents are written in cursive. Dumschitz can't read them.

30 posted on 06/27/2013 7:20:32 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Osama tried and failed. Obama got it done.)
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To: iowamark

She has a 6-figure salary waiting for her in one of the alphabet Federal agencies. She may even be appointed by her father, Barack, himself.


31 posted on 06/27/2013 7:20:33 AM PDT by lurk
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To: iowamark

They vote. And they breed. God help us.


32 posted on 06/27/2013 7:20:35 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Both parties are trying to elect a new PEOPLE.)
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To: iowamark
Well how can she read it if it's not written in ebonics? *sheesh*

"Excuse me Ma'am, but I can speak jive."

33 posted on 06/27/2013 7:20:42 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: iowamark

Hope “ they have her all doped up because otherwise. Darwin’s evolution is reversing into deevolution?


34 posted on 06/27/2013 7:20:56 AM PDT by Recompennation (Constitutional protection for all not just selectively for Democrats.)
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To: CodeToad
Illiterate. In this day and age, really?

Where have you been? About 15% of the adults in this country are illiterate. And 21% cannot read at the 5th grade level (which includes the 14% above)

http://www.statisticbrain.com/number-of-american-adults-who-cant-read/

35 posted on 06/27/2013 7:20:59 AM PDT by ProudFossil (" I never did give anyone hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." Harry Truman)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Idiocracy is here.


36 posted on 06/27/2013 7:21:04 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
IOW...she’s illiterate AND a liar.

[shrug] It's the best the prosecution could come up with.

37 posted on 06/27/2013 7:21:26 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: CodeToad

>> “Illiterate. In this day and age, really?” <<

.
You can’t say Illiterate, that’s RACISSS!

She’s communication impaired, a VICTIM!


38 posted on 06/27/2013 7:21:28 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: iowamark

I had read that many kids aren’t taught read cursive because all Puter and webbie objects only use block.
This is so sad.


39 posted on 06/27/2013 7:21:30 AM PDT by RWGinger
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

No, she can read her government EBT card and the applications for benefits because someone is there to read them for her. Can’t understand cursive? Surprised she knew what cursive is. I’ll be anything the prosecution had to tell her to cover up for the fact that she actually can read very little of anything.


40 posted on 06/27/2013 7:21:42 AM PDT by Gaffer
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