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Mystery girl to testify in Trayvon Martin murder case
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/25/us-usa-florida-shooting-idUSBRE95O0FR20130625 ^

Posted on 06/25/2013 9:59:18 AM PDT by MNDude

Prosecutors in the Florida murder trial of neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman will reveal a star witness for the first time on Tuesday, the girl Trayvon Martin was talking with in the last minutes of his life.

The teenage girl, known as Witness #8 until now, was due to testify about what Martin, the unarmed black 17-year-old shot and killed by Zimmerman last year, told her what he saw that night.

Identified in court on Monday only as Rachel, a friend of Martin from Miami, she received a running account about what was happening, starting when he noticed a man, Zimmerman, watching him in the gated central Florida community he was visiting.

Zimmerman, 29 and part Hispanic, was a neighborhood watch volunteer in the Retreat at Twin Lakes community in Sanford at the time of the February 26, 2012, killing. He has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and could face life imprisonment if convicted.

The racially charged case triggered civil rights protests and debates about the treatment of black Americans in the U.S. justice system, since police did not arrest Zimmerman for 44 days.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: news; sourcetitlenoturl; trayvon; zimmerman
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To: MNDude

She is testifying now. She says that Trayvon told her a “creepy-ass white cracker” was looking at him.


81 posted on 06/26/2013 12:09:36 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: MNDude

Little is known about her because the prosecution is ashamed that they have to rely on a witness who can barely talk, and has an IQ of a two year old.


82 posted on 06/26/2013 12:15:49 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: gingerbread

keep the faith..... Z will walk


83 posted on 06/28/2013 5:55:53 PM PDT by zzwhale
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

THANKS for the facts.


84 posted on 06/28/2013 5:56:52 PM PDT by zzwhale
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Trayvon’s alleged father who is/was a member of a gang and who allegedly called a Zimmerman supporter in the courtroom a M.F., he is allowed in the courtroom. He said the screaming on the tape was not his son. Later he said it was. Is he not a witness? Why is he in the courtroom.


85 posted on 06/28/2013 6:02:45 PM PDT by ladyjane (For the first time in my life I am not proud of my country.)
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To: zzwhale

Yep, he was found not guilty, but this LIAR IN CHIEF, THE DOJ, THE LAMESTREAM MEDIA, THE RACE PIMPS, etal, will never let this die.


86 posted on 07/28/2013 10:28:59 AM PDT by gingerbread
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identified in court on Monday only as Rachel

Rachel? Haven't we all had about enough of Goiter-neck?

87 posted on 07/28/2013 10:33:48 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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