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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: ForAmerica
I hope that you are wrong.

So do I, my friend. But the way this has developed, I don't think I am.

541 posted on 06/27/2013 5:08:17 PM PDT by Real Cynic No More
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To: Spirochete
My company had a big problem with workers unable to read hazmat safety precautions and MSDS sheets. All of the applicants are now screened for literacy. On testing day, about five applicants will remain to complete the hiring process from a pool of 15 - 20. Most of them are black.

This sounds familiar. I worked at a chemical plant that used to hand out job applications and allowed people to take them home to fill out. Then they discovered the illiterates were having other people fill them out.

One of the engineers said he used a pack of brightly printed flower stickers to communicates hazards to the illiterates who slipped through.

This was a dangerous operation; everyone was trained to use self-contained breathing air. Fires were commonplace. Knowing how witless many of the workers were did not leave one with a warm and fuzzy feeling. At the beginning of one short-handed shift, two of the engineers discussed going to the city jail and bailing out enough of the workers to fill out a shift.
542 posted on 06/27/2013 5:17:09 PM PDT by Nepeta
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To: newnhdad
and white people are cracker rapists.

So that's why I'm not allowed within 50 ft of the cracker isle…

543 posted on 06/27/2013 5:22:14 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: rainee

My grandson was learning cursive in kindergarten in a public school in Tennessee. He now goes to a private school and they are still teaching him cursive. And yes, he knows its cursive. I’ve also heard from a teacher friend that they are no longer teaching it in public schools in North Carolina.


544 posted on 06/27/2013 5:23:33 PM PDT by Roses0508
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To: FrdmLvr
it's more likely that there have always been functional illeterates, but the general public was mostly unaware of it until recently.

I attended a modest city elementary school in the 1950s in a mostly blue collar neighborhood. I don't remember anyone there having difficulty with reading. I asked my friend of 50 years if she remembered anyone from her elementary school who could not read--and she attended a segregated school in Kentucky--and she could not recall anyone. I think in the 1950s one could not easily miss learning the basics.
545 posted on 06/27/2013 5:25:52 PM PDT by Nepeta
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To: Dr. Sivana
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.

Hey, cool! Cursive can be the white man's secret code.

546 posted on 06/27/2013 6:02:31 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: butterdezillion; Noamie

She says in the article she dictated it to someone. She didn’t name the person. I would guess an older woman.


547 posted on 06/27/2013 6:10:04 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: M Kehoe
Why is she wearing a neck collar?

I think that's fat.

548 posted on 06/27/2013 6:15:41 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

“Some but not all. I don’t read cursive.”
“It’s fake, but accurate!”

Ahhhhh, the Dan Rather defense.


549 posted on 06/27/2013 6:17:17 PM PDT by SoCalTransplant (Wake me when we get to the part where we alter or abolish it.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Which one is she, Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dumb?
550 posted on 06/27/2013 6:17:32 PM PDT by UpInArms (without failure there's no success only slavery)
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To: a fool in paradise

Is Skeptical Frog related to the Hypno-Toad

/Futurama thing


551 posted on 06/27/2013 6:18:55 PM PDT by SoCalTransplant (Wake me when we get to the part where we alter or abolish it.)
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To: Kenny Bunk
SHE WAS EXTREMELY CREDIBLE

Yes, she was very honest today. She told the truth about lying several times. That makes her credible to these folks, I guess.

Maybe someone needs to tell them what credible means.

552 posted on 06/27/2013 6:23:38 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: dfwgator

Hey Bud I’m right there with you. At one time I did a lot of architectural planning/drawing and my handwriting was awesome. Since I switched to computers (CAD) I can’t read my own name if I write it in cursive/longhand. And if I do sign anything it depends on the day how it flows . . . never the same.


553 posted on 06/27/2013 6:25:46 PM PDT by rhubarbk
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To: Thane_Banquo
She looks like she has a touch of Down’s Syndrome.

No, she just has her hair pulled back too tight.

554 posted on 06/27/2013 6:27:28 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Why,In God’s name,does *she* need a criminal defense lawyer????? What’s going on here???

Perjury?

555 posted on 06/27/2013 6:29:36 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: My Favorite Headache

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!!!!!!


Same thing the talking head panel on MSNBC was saying. That she was very truthful and won the jury’s trust and sympathy. They also said West hurt himself by being so “mean” to her. They brushed aside all the lies (I’ve lost count of how many)and said they didn’t mean anything. Some even said they weren’t really lies,,,just minor “inconsistencies.” And, of course, they all agreed that blacks calling whites “crackers” isn’t racist.


556 posted on 06/27/2013 6:30:39 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: RWGinger
I had read that many kids aren’t taught read cursive because all Puter and webbie objects only use block.

I did not know that

557 posted on 06/27/2013 6:31:10 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("New Yorks Finest" are now "The Untouchables")
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To: MDspinboyredux

Exactly. I don’t know anyone who can’t read their own writing.


558 posted on 06/27/2013 6:32:29 PM PDT by matt04
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To: a fool in paradise

“Do you write in cursive?”

“No, I don’t use that kind of language!”


559 posted on 06/27/2013 6:33:02 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: dfwgator

Studying ain’t ‘keepin’ it real.’


Studying is whitey’s way. And libs also say when blacks call whites “whitey,” thats not racist either. Nor is the word “honky” racist, libs say.


560 posted on 06/27/2013 6:37:11 PM PDT by chessplayer
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