Why are they deposing Crumb?
Why are they deposing Crumb?
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I think because he was pulling the strings on the manufacture of the “back story” on Dee Dee and likely helped Dee Dee come up with the dialogue that she later reported as having been said between her and Saint Skittles (to replace stuff such as “..so I told Trayvon to show that cracker just who the Knockout King is” with substitutes such as “Trayvon said ‘I’m frightened Dee Dee.’ and I said ‘Run Trayvon, run home!’”)
The sine qua non of this whole circus is an edited recording of interview in which Benjamin Crump asked Witness 8 (RJ) to tell him how she was on the phone with Trayvon when she overheard some of the interactions between TM and GZ. Without that, this whole circus would have been avoided.
No complete unedited recording of the entire interview is known to exist, but portions of the interview which Crump omitted from his edited version show that he was trying to coach the witness in an effort to make her believe that GZ confronted TM without justification. His level of manipulation may likely rise to such a level that her beliefs about what happened may have been shaped more by BC's coaching than by anything that actually happened.
I suspect GZ's lawyers are interested in Crump's deposition not so much because it will help them get an acquittal in this case, but because they want to force him to put his version of the W8 interview on record before he has a chance to adjust it based on W8's testimony. BC has consistently committed libel against GZ, and even if he is able to claim that GZ is a "public figure" [notwithstanding the fact that GZ wouldn't be a public figure had not BC made him one], his conduct goes far beyond the level of malice necessary to demonstrate libel.