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George Zimmerman Witness Can't Read Letter She 'Wrote' About Shooting
ABC News ^ | June 27, 2013 | SENI TIENABESO and MATT GUTMAN

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; coachingthewitness; cultureofcorruption; cursive; georgezimmerman; jeantel; kangaroocourt; letter; racheljeantel; railroaded; read; shooting; trayvon; trayvonmartin; witness; zimmerman
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To: editor-surveyor

Pretty soon the NSA will have to hire experts to decrypt cursive.


161 posted on 06/27/2013 7:46:32 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Hot Tabasco

“I don’t think she has an IQ of 80”

They say that below 80 IQ, they are too dumb to know how dumb they are. She looks like she knows, so I’m gonna say she’s just above 80 IQ


162 posted on 06/27/2013 7:46:54 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Jeff Head

This tells much about Trayvon. Anyone involved with her must be crazy.


163 posted on 06/27/2013 7:47:25 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: iowamark
"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."

Jeantel is the shinning star of who we are thanks to, and brought to you by, the American Progressive Movement, destroying all it touches since Teddy and Woodrow started force feeding the infection to a wisely reluctant Lady Liberty.

What was done to that tortured soul for the vast majority of her childhood through mandated, forced indoctrination is criminal cruelty as well as societal suicide.

For the rest of her life that early harm will come back to her and to US, our progressive karma, and then be passed on to the next generation, step by step, progressing us to the darkest sides of our human nature and calling it government policy.

Imagine who she could have been and what she might have achieved had her young and growing mind been exposed to truth, rather than agenda.

164 posted on 06/27/2013 7:47:38 AM PDT by GBA (Our obamanation: Animal Farm meets 1984 in A Brave New World. Crony capitalism, chaos and control.)
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To: GladesGuru
PS That result has held steady for nearly 100 years, ever since IQ testing started.

"Shall we make the usual bet?"

165 posted on 06/27/2013 7:48:01 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Really? This is the news channel you find on many overhead tv’s in the airports. It is always on.


166 posted on 06/27/2013 7:48:03 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: Recompennation

“chump don’t want no help, chump don’t get no help”..................I love that line.


167 posted on 06/27/2013 7:48:56 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: rarestia

You threw racist twice, and forgot to call “Uno!”


168 posted on 06/27/2013 7:49:34 AM PDT by Old Sarge (My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
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To: gop4lyf

Updated w/video..

http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=19504826


169 posted on 06/27/2013 7:49:59 AM PDT by rainee (Her)
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To: rawhide

Sadly many schools no longer teach cursive.

I can understand why too.. I have little hand writing in my life I print notes and key everything that any one else will need to read.

But the fact that at one time it seems the witness claimed to have written but can not have done so says a lot about the case


170 posted on 06/27/2013 7:50:01 AM PDT by Bidimus1
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To: gop4lyf
ABC had a misleading heading/video link. The article was about the letter, but the video was just ebonics mumbo jumbo...nothing do to with the (headline) about the letter. Hmmmm.

On the (above mentioned) video this witness' statements had to be captioned for the viewing audience.

171 posted on 06/27/2013 7:50:07 AM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs stay silent.)
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To: YankeeReb

“Zimmerman was convicted by the media on day 1. “

Just yesterday, good ole Shep of Fox News was still posting those 12yr old photos of Trayvon. I just hope no journalist is on the jury.


172 posted on 06/27/2013 7:50:08 AM PDT by A'elian' nation ("Political Correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred." Jacques Barzun)
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I have not followed this very closely...what is the thinking..... Did this woman do any of the things she claims?


173 posted on 06/27/2013 7:50:21 AM PDT by woofie
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Watching defense attorney Don West shred this imbecile was almost sad...............almost.
174 posted on 06/27/2013 7:50:28 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Cuttnhorse

Anytime you sign your name on check, or sign a document, that is cursive writing.


175 posted on 06/27/2013 7:50:36 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: Cuttnhorse

you don’t know what cursive means???

cursive handwriting as opposed to individual letters


176 posted on 06/27/2013 7:50:56 AM PDT by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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To: circlecity

My guess is that this all came out in deposition and the defense WANTED her on the stand so much that they would have called her if the prosecution had not.


177 posted on 06/27/2013 7:51:21 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: butterdezillion

I’m betting it was Crump. He’s in this way over his head. Zimmerman’s attorney needs to get a handwriting expert, Crump and this fat ‘N-word’ both need to be charged with obstruction of justice and jailed.


178 posted on 06/27/2013 7:51:28 AM PDT by Kenton
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Yes, Fox News Channel is our best bet for real news, but please take note: Even FNC is STILL showing Trayvon's baby picture instead of a current one.

Yeah, I know it's not really a BABY picture, just a photo at least 5 years younger with a cute, sweet looking boy as opposed to the thug pictures of himself that Trayvon was proud enough of to put online.

179 posted on 06/27/2013 7:51:55 AM PDT by Sal (Pres and DOS watched our people get raped + murdered in REAL TIME-did nothing and don't care!)
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To: JLS
My grandfather signed with an X and did quite well for himself in the 20th century.

But was he illiterate after 14 years of taxpayer funded schooling?

180 posted on 06/27/2013 7:52:05 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto
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