Jeantel owned West. He was meek as all get out. Maybe he didn’t want to push in fear of making the jury even more sympathetic to her. Or anger the judge, who has already shown she doesn’t like West. But you could tell by Jeantel’s body language and her arrogant attitude toward West that she knew she owned him. West is going to have a very tough time with her tomorrow.
If I am reading other threads correctly, she is sequestered in a hotel with no TV, radio, internet, phone, or booze. That last one might be the toughest on her, plus I’d bet that she doesn’t have a habit of rolling out of bed to be somewhere by 8:30 AM. She might be as irritable as a hornet’s nest or she might be driven into the courtroom snoozing in the back seat of one of Wal-Mart’s carts — either way yeah I think you’re right that West is going to have his hands full getting anything useful out of her. But that might be just fine with him.
>>”You could tell by Jeantel’s body language and her arrogant attitude”
And you think she came off well?
West is playing her. She’s being arrogant and disrespectful, he’s being overly polite - it makes her seem even more so.
And he, oh so gently, had her agree that she wasn’t careful or cared to be accurate in what she testified to in the past.
Can’t wait for tomorrow...
Who the hell are you kidding? What trial are you watching??? West was establishing a foundation for what will come today --- something that all good lawyers do. He was letting her talk -- and all that talk is now on the record.
To anyone who watched her yesterday Jeantel comes across as a deeply emotionally and psychologically and mentally disturbed child and the prosecution and the Scheme Team should be ashamed for having exploited her as they have and using her as their star witness to try to put a man in prison for life.