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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Thank God it wasn’t full auto! Otherwise he would have been suspended from school!
How could he not know she did not write the letter? This is becoming an unbelievable farce!
Like I said before, the defense gets this idiot on the stand, it’s money. The twitter account was a treasure trove of more idiocy.
I wonder if she’s still in jail?
About those earrings....looks like she brought her own handcuffs. sweet.
See Post #230...
In the video, the defense states that the letter (in front of witness) was written for the witness with the assistance of Francine Serr (?). The witness agrees that is who wrote the letter.
However, this testimony actually makes her story more credible to me.
My assumption was that Martin would only have been texting with her if he contacted her at all that night, since that is how 17 year olds normally communicate.
But you need to read to text.
Only that fairy with the plucked eyebrows.
Ooops...the defense lawyer’s gotta cool it.Unless they’re given ample reason to do otherwise the jury *will* have sypmpathy for this witness and *will* be inclined to believe the truth and accuracy of *everything* she says as well as accept her basic motivations as being pure and legitimate.The defense has gotta make her look bad in a *very* subtle way.
“she looks like she’s suffering from hypothyroidism”
Looks like she’s got the EBT card in overdrive at the grocery store to me! lol
“the day may soon come where cursive will be as secure as any encryption.”
Mine already is!
A noted American progressive politician once used the line "the soft bigotry of low expectations". Flowery way to describe plantation politics.
She said she could not read cursive, which for her age is actually becoming common. Schools are dropping cursive instruction. What this means is someone older wrote the letter.
Thank you
The consummate Obama voter.
You should have sat in the interviews we’ve had with previous applicants. We wanted to bang our heads on a wall. MOST cannot spell and what shocked us was there were a good number of these imbeciles who are Ivy-league graduates.
Despite the fact that this is nothing but a Show Trial, just like the Nazis used to do, how much money is this travesty costing the Taxpayers of Florida?
Whatever it is, I’m sure the damage from Race Riots will cost even more.
LOL! She has her watch on backwards. The mic is also picking up her beathing. Like Darth Vader.
She’s a poster teen for Jessie J and the other poverty pimps. The hateful stare over of those welfare fed cheeks fit the the MAJORITY of these DemoRat zombies when ‘challenged’ by even answering a question honestly, much less getting a frick’n job and much much less being a benefit to society other than an f’n vote.
we are so near done in this country and we should adopt the ‘push’ these hateful liberals claim we are and smoke’m out as a MAJORITY we are. Love’n ‘em ain’t work’n.
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