"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!"
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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I don't think she has an IQ of 80
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.
Did she under oath claim to have written the letter?
Did it come from a Kinko’s in Texas?
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.
if she can’t read cursive, then who wrote the letter?
Is the prosecutions’ whole case based on this idiot woman????
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.
> 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.
That explains a lot. Many of America's founding documents are written in cursive. Dumschitz can't read them.
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.
They vote. And they breed. God help us.
"Excuse me Ma'am, but I can speak jive."
Hope “ they have her all doped up because otherwise. Darwin’s evolution is reversing into deevolution?
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/
Idiocracy is here.
[shrug] It's the best the prosecution could come up with.
>> “Illiterate. In this day and age, really?” <<
.
You can’t say Illiterate, that’s RACISSS!
She’s communication impaired, a VICTIM!
I had read that many kids aren’t taught read cursive because all Puter and webbie objects only use block.
This is so sad.
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.
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