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Central Witness In Trayvon Martin Trial Was Imposter, George Zimmerman Said In $100M Suit
Dailycaller.com ^ | December 5th, 2019 | Staff

Posted on 12/05/2019 2:38:15 PM PST by Red Badger

The Trayvon Martin case was built on an elaborate fraud, with Rachel Jeantel pretending to be the girlfriend who was on the phone with Martin at the time of his death, George Zimmerman says in a new lawsuit. The actual phone witness was Diamond Eugene, who was replaced when she would not testify, the suit says. Martin’s parents participated in the swap, it says. Prosecutors withheld key evidence from Zimmerman, including falsely telling the defense team that Martin’s cellphone was broken, it says.

The Trayvon Martin case was built on a fraud, with a key witness being swapped out with an imposter when the real witness wouldn’t testify, George Zimmerman said in a lawsuit Wednesday.

The lawsuit says Martin was on the phone with his girlfriend, a vivacious 16-year-old named Brittany Diamond Eugene, when Zimmerman killed him on Feb. 26, 2012. At trial, prosecutors produced the plump, slow-spoken 18-year-old Rachel Jeantel as the girl who had crucial insight into his final moments by being on the phone with him.

The lawsuit says Eugene refused to provide the version of events used to build a narrative of racism at trial, so Jeantel, who reads at a fourth-grade level, was pressured into pretending to be “Diamond.”

The lawsuit seeks $100 million and names both young women as defendants, plus Martin’s parents, who it says were well aware of the swap.

Zimmerman’s lawyer filed the lawsuit in state court in Florida and it also targets the state of Florida and its prosecutors, who allegedly initially falsely told the defense that Martin’s cellphone was too damaged to extract its data, when it actually contained evidence damaging to their case. That includes not only evidence of the witness swap, but also texts showing Martin previously discussing gun sales and bragging of beating up a “snitch” and saying, “He aint bleed nuff 4 me, only his nosez.” Prosecutors also ran out the clock by repeatedly ignoring the defense’s entitlement to exculpatory evidence, the suit says.

It additionally names Benjamin Crump, the civil attorney for Martin’s parents, who rode the case to fame and wrote a book about “genocide” of “colored people” despite allegedly playing a key role in a hoax.

The suit says:

Each and every one of them … instituted, ordered, commanded, conspired, and covered up the illegal substitution of Defendant Eugene, a legitimate phone witness to the days, hours and minutes before the death of Trayvon Martin with Defendant Jeantel, an imposter and fake witness, who told a made to order false storyline to prosecutors in order to cause Zimmerman to be arrested, tried, and convicted for second degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in a case that had already been investigated and closed by the Sanford, Florida police department, and after they had already exonerated Zimmerman, having concluded Zimmerman had acted in self-defense with no probable cause for arrest based on eye-witness testimony, physical evidence, and 911 audio recordings.

Trayvon Martin’s alleged actual girlfriend Brittany Diamond Eugene is pictured. (Photo from “The Trayvon Hoax” book)

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In the weeks after Zimmerman shot Martin, the death was met with little outcry because neighbor Jonathan Good told police he saw Martin mercilessly pummeling Zimmerman in his backyard. (RELATED: Jesse Jackson says Trayvon Martin ‘murdered and martyred’)

That changed March 19, 2012, when Crump recorded an audio interview in which Martin’s 16-year old girlfriend, “Diamond,” provided a contradictory tale based on her being on the phone with him at the time of the incident. The tape precipitated the arrest of Zimmerman on April 11, 2012.

Phone records show Eugene and Martin spent hours on the phone with each other on a daily basis and exchanged loving and sexual texts, the lawsuit says.

After the shooting, Martin’s girlfriend came to the home of Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, and provided a short letter memorializing her knowledge as the person on the phone at the time of his death. The letter was signed Diamond Eugene. Fulton did not tell prosecutors or the defense about the letter for nearly a year.

The lawsuit says Crump pressured Eugene to provide the audio statement that supported a narrative of racism, but that she refused to do the same in court.

Prosecutors initially had no contact with Eugene except through Fulton, but on April 2, 2012, they insisted on meeting her, so Fulton led them to her residence, it says. They knocked on the door and were referred to a different house, where Jeantel answered and claimed to be Diamond Eugene.

“Defendant Eugene could in no way be mistaken for Defendant Jeantel, who was 2 years older, 5 inches taller, and about 120 pounds heavier than Defendant Eugene. Defendant Fulton was alarmed and immediately called Defendant Eugene, who tweeted at about that same time at 6:27 PM ‘Trayvon Martin Mom just called me’ and at 6:32 PM ‘She thought I was Trayvon Girlfriend, Asking Me Hella Questions,'” the lawsuit said, citing phone records and social media records.

Nevertheless, Fulton went back inside and sat next to Jeantel as she was interviewed, without telling prosecutors “what she knew, that Defendant Jeantel was not Defendant Eugene, that Defendant Jeantel was not Trayvon’s girlfriend, that Defendant Jeantel was not the girl she had met with in her home on March 19, had spoken with 7 times, had texted with some 30 times, had driven back to her home at 2648 Flamingo Drive on March 19,” it continued.

Jeantel was an 18-year-old ninth grader who read at a fourth-grade level, it says.

Martin’s parents both lied repeatedly to cover up the swap, the lawsuit says.

Prosecutor Bernie “de la Rionda ignored the repeated false statements by Defendant Jeantel that he both knew and should have known to be false, including those which contradicted Defendant Eugene’s phone records he had already obtained, and including Defendant Jeantel’s statement that she was 18, even though Defendant de la Rionda knew from Defendant Crump’s public statements that Defendant Eugene was 16,” it said, adding:

Almost every time Defendant Jeantel made a statement he knew to be false, Defendant de la Rionda asked the question again and again in different ways until Defendant Jeantel’s answer fit his narrative. By the end of the interview, Defendant Jeantel was emotionally exhausted and feeling guilty from her lying and told Defendant de la Rionda six times, almost shouting “I feel guilty” and “real guilty”. When asked why she felt “real guilty”, Defendant Jeantel then stated twice, shouting the second time “I ain’t know about it!”

To explain the name on the letter and the changing age of the girlfriend, Jeantel testified that she initially gave a “fake name” and “fake age” and lied about why she wasn’t at Martin’s funeral.

The difference in the voices is stark between the initial call Crump released and the testimony provided by Jeantel, who spoke in a deep, slow mumble. undefined

Rachel Jeantel, who said she was on the phone with Trayvon Martin, is pictured. (Screenshot from “The Trayvon Hoax”)

The lawsuit is based on the investigative work in a book and movie called the “The Trayvon Hoax” by Joel Gilbert, a Hollywood director who has made entertainment films as well as conspiratorial conservative films.

“The Trayvon Hoax,” however, attributes its conclusions almost entirely to specific contents of cellphone data related to the criminal case, which Gilbert obtained under Florida’s expansive open-records law, as well as copious social media postings by the young people involved.

Martin’s dad Tracy Martin — who fathered six children with five women and spent time in prison for trafficking $1 million in cocaine — admitted to police that the cries of “help” on a 911 call came from Zimmerman, not his son, but later changed his story, the suit says.

Crump issued a statement on behalf of himself and the parents. “I have every confidence that this unfounded and reckless lawsuit will be revealed for what it is – another failed attempt to defend the indefensible and a shameless attempt to profit off the lives and grief of others,” he said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: redbadger; trayvonmartin; trayvonmartinhoax; zimmerman
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To: Mr. K

If no if:
Trayvon Martin’s parents are criminal thugs just like the criminal thug they raised.


21 posted on 12/05/2019 2:59:49 PM PST by Bell Bouy II
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To: Red Badger

I think he should sue the state as well.


22 posted on 12/05/2019 3:05:03 PM PST by Snook79
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To: Red Badger

It’s hard to keep track of all the code words and dog whistles these days.


23 posted on 12/05/2019 3:06:12 PM PST by ETCM
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To: Red Badger

Our legal system has become a farce.


24 posted on 12/05/2019 3:14:37 PM PST by exPBRrat (.)
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To: Red Badger

He thought Zimmerman was a homosexual?


25 posted on 12/05/2019 3:15:17 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Magnum44

That is funny!!


26 posted on 12/05/2019 3:18:39 PM PST by PistolPaknMama
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To: montag813

Bondi is just one of many unethical prosecutors. Her pretty face gets her a pass from a lot here.


27 posted on 12/05/2019 3:28:34 PM PST by damper99
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To: Red Badger

If true, some of these folks need disbarment plus jail time. The hood rats are what they are but the prosecutors should know better. That was outright perjury and suborning perjury if true.


28 posted on 12/05/2019 3:30:06 PM PST by OrangeHoof (The Democrats - Unafraid to burn in Hell.)
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To: Red Badger

120 lb difference is uh....yuuuuggge


29 posted on 12/05/2019 3:35:25 PM PST by xp38
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To: eyeamok

Why wouldn’t they ALL BE IN PRISON Already??...Ahem. Does the turd (word) Sharpton mean anytinks to you?


30 posted on 12/05/2019 3:39:59 PM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Smellin Salt
I believe I saw an article a couple of years ago about Fulton being so embarrassed about her performance on the stand that she learned to read and write.

Don't remember if it was cursive, though.

31 posted on 12/05/2019 3:41:22 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: PistolPaknMama
‘was’ funny. 🙈🙊🙉
32 posted on 12/05/2019 3:41:47 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Snook79

“Zimmerman’s lawyer filed the lawsuit in state court in Florida and it also targets the state of Florida and its prosecutors, who allegedly initially falsely told the defense that Martin’s cellphone was too damaged to extract its data, when it actually contained evidence damaging to their case.”


33 posted on 12/05/2019 3:42:00 PM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Fai Mao

Indeed. I live in Florida and there was talk about this (the “girlfriend discrepancy”) but it was obvious that the state simply wanted to nail the white guy. This was under a prior governor, btw; DeSantis would have been a whole different ballgame because he actually believes in the legal process, and has done a lot to clean up corrupt counties and sheriffs and courts.


34 posted on 12/05/2019 4:07:02 PM PST by livius
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To: Red Badger
"He may have been a thug, but I don’t blame Trayvon for anything. He thought he was being stalked and attacked the man............."

You endorse trying to kill someone for watching you?

Trayvon was able to make it back to his apartment and go inside. Instead, he hid and ambushed Zimmerman.

35 posted on 12/05/2019 4:09:14 PM PST by mlo
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To: Red Badger

Jeantel must have five or six kids herself by now.
I hope Zimmerman is willing to accept EBT cards in lieu of cash.


36 posted on 12/05/2019 4:11:08 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Red Badger

I’m not the least bit surprised by these allegations - and the fact that none of them immediately stick out as implausible. The entire case reeked of Obama and fraud (separate and distinct stenches, though often found together) from day one.


37 posted on 12/05/2019 4:12:40 PM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Red Badger

Jaba Jomama


38 posted on 12/05/2019 4:35:11 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Magnum44
‘was’ funny

Well, there's that. LOL

39 posted on 12/05/2019 4:40:58 PM PST by PistolPaknMama
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To: mlo

Well, there had been thefts in the neighborhood and Zimmerman was part of the neighborhood watch as I recall. Stalking? How about looking out for the residents, which was entirely legal. What Martin did was not.


40 posted on 12/05/2019 4:50:44 PM PST by Real Cynic No More (Make America Great. Prosecute Dems who break the law!)
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