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.
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My last meatloaf was more intelligent than that POS.
5.56mm
The truly stupid ones I have seen on juries are usually teachers. lol
I bet she has an Obama-phone.
She can still text on it :’Iz gots my fee fone...Iz luvs OBAMO”
Public school graduate?
Bias!!!
She’s not a eloquent, she jus has baby fat.
I disagree. :)
Here’s the plan...we start printing all election ballots in cursive, as well as EBT, Section8’ and welfare applications.
Note that the percentage of high school graduates who can’t read is 19%, while the percentage of overall adults who can’t read is 14%. Implication: Government schools make you dumber.
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Get real now. You can’t text cursive. Someone may be reading those dirty words.
"Dey said dey would giv me some mo' crak if to say dose tings 'bout dat cracker."
The prsoecution does not have a case. They never did. This has been a witch hunt, and an abject racist witch hunt from day one.
Zimmerman did what he had to do to save his own life. I do not think I could have held off shotting the little bastard for that long...waiting until he was beating Zimmerman's head against the cement and he was about to lose consciousness.
Martin made a fatal error when he decided to turn around and go after Zimmermean. He should have just gone on about his business. The very fact that he did not tells you all you need to know here. He was the agressor the entire time in the confrontation.
Until that point it was just a neighborhood watch guy watching someone suspicious and reporting to the polcie.
I’d like to know too. I’d like to see this particular moment.
Heh heh, the day may soon come where cursive will be as secure as any encryption.
How does she even know the word “cursive”?
"Conspiracy to commit penmanship" is a very serious charge.
I admit to being out of it...what the heck is “cursive”??
“Why would any prosecutor put on that witness knowing what was coming?”
Because this is a fake trial?
Remember the Rodney King riots- the media was pumping everyone up with how the cops were going to get justice, they showed the “beating”, well, 12 seconds of the whole event, over and over, for maybe 9 months or maybe a year. Then the courts acquitted the cops and it touched off the riot.
Look what’s happening here- over a years worth of inflammatory propaganda, the media insisting Zimmerman is guilty, prosecutors doing strange things. What do you think will happen if Zimmermann gets set free? I see history repeating here.
Breaking News:
Key witness in Zimmerman trial back today
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