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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Maybe she meant “wet grass” as in the contents of a water bong.
She looks like a sumo wrestler! Seriously that hair and that neck just scream SUMO!!!
“...she ‘love it when it time to eat.’..”
Clearly!
You know you can disable the touchpad and use a real mouse to solve your problem with the laptop.
With the way she is talking and testitying, wondering if they need a break to determine her ability to testify to anything?
Can’t read, can’t talk, but good lord she can eat!
It that something to smoke an illicite drug?
Uhhhh, I wouldn't know about such things.
Makes sense..especially w/the tone she uses when saying it.
LOL...you made my day!
My uncle was illiterate too dropped out of school third grade during hard times to work the farm. He never received government “handups” and lived well with a good job. He often referred to having attended the “school of hard knocks” laughingly.
Jeantel is an example of a new citizen of the US. She is a product of the public school system and a product of her culture. There are millions of Jeantels among us, making sure our votes and politics don’t count.
lol
This case isn’t dismissed yet?
Mine is not only not pretty, it is darned near incomprehensible when I try to do it quickly. I hand print or keyboard type and print anything of importance.
But I read it just fine.
Did “Dee Dee” just call the lawyer a name? A social poster said she did.
She’s given different accounts of her phone call w/Trayvon..during one of her accounts, she said she heard the phone drop on wet grass so defense is asking how she knew it was wet grass & to describe what it sounded like.
You can lead a horse to water....
Seriously, go try teaching a year in the ghetto.
I don't need to smell dung to know it stinks.
It would be interesting to know if she could read a typed version of the same letter.
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