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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: Jane Long

Thanks for posting that. My computer won’t allow me to install the driver for speakers so if I want to hear something I have to use my laptop, which is a pain in the rear if I’m going to post anything because my laptop cursor jumps all over the page while I’m typing.

Based on what you said I went ahead and listened to that segment and you’re right; she claimed that her friend wrote it out for her so it would be legible. But even that seems weird because the easiest way to make something legible is to type it out and print it. The words she used should have been easy enough to spell. I’d like to know when that letter was written, in relation to Crump’s contact with her, and I’d like them to find out how the friend says it all went down.


301 posted on 06/27/2013 8:43:12 AM PDT by butterdezillion (,)
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To: dfwgator

Absolutely. Except watching that would mean ‘acting white’.


302 posted on 06/27/2013 8:43:16 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: CPONuke

Did they ever allow the defense to see ALL the phone records?


303 posted on 06/27/2013 8:44:35 AM PDT by butterdezillion (,)
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To: Norm Lenhart

I remember the one about the “Melting Pot” about immigration.

Of course, now that notion of a Melting Pot is considered racist, we’re now a “tossed salad”.


304 posted on 06/27/2013 8:44:59 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: iowamark

Well, I personally am saddened by this.
Not because of the trial... but because this creature sitting there is the future of this country.

Can’t read.
can’t talk.
Can’t form an intelligent thought and cannot verbalize that thought into comprehensible words.
The few words that she does speak are ebonics that only ghetto hoods can understand... nothing resembling proper English language.

The only thing that this creature can do well is cash a welfare check and procreate. She and her like reproduce faster than any other group, filling society with more and more dumbed-down Obomanites for our future.

That is why I am sad at this lady or thing or whatever it is.


305 posted on 06/27/2013 8:45:22 AM PDT by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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To: rawhide

Yikes...I mean not *difficult* for me to imagine...


306 posted on 06/27/2013 8:45:25 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
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To: mikeus_maximus

“Yeah, laugh all you want to folks. But remember: You’re supporting her and her lifestyle.”

Hopefully she’ll get hungup in a perjury/obstruction charge because she can’t read under oath what she says she wrote and we’ll be supporting her in the ironbar hotel.


307 posted on 06/27/2013 8:45:26 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: butterdezillion

which is a pain in the rear if I’m going to post anything because my laptop cursor jumps all over the page while I’m typing.

_______________________

I installed Touchfreeze and that stopped that jumping problem cold. It is a free download. Hope it works for you. Chickensoup


308 posted on 06/27/2013 8:45:34 AM PDT by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed " people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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To: iowamark

"Wha'chu talkin' bout Willis?"

309 posted on 06/27/2013 8:45:52 AM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: mikeus_maximus
Yeah, laugh all you want to folks. But remember: You’re supporting her and her lifestyle. ;)

And the 8 kids she's inevitably going to have with 8 different fathers.

310 posted on 06/27/2013 8:46:48 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ForAmerica

I’m thinking this isn’t about Zimmerman at all. It’s about the concept of using a firearm in self defense against someone who doesn’t have a firearm. I began to think that when Zimmerman was originally charged, when Holder originally got involved. I think the Justice Department is likely to come up with some theory of excessive force if Zimmerman is not found guilty, as a way of attacking the 2nd Amendment in self defense cases. It’s a landmark case.


311 posted on 06/27/2013 8:47:12 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More
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To: Recompennation

“Darwin’s evolution is reversing into deevolution?”

Evolution does not necessarily aware faster, smarter, stronger, bigger, or better.

It rewards “how many babies you can bring up to have babies.”

That’s “evolutionary fitness.”

A crak whore with 20 babies being brought up by nice adoptive families with no biological children of their own is far more evolutionarily fit than those families.


312 posted on 06/27/2013 8:47:12 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Dole are sure losers. No more!)
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To: NRA1995
ATTY: "Do you ever read cursive?"

WITNESS: "I try not to curse too much"

313 posted on 06/27/2013 8:48:40 AM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: dfwgator
The BlazeTV has a program "Liberty Schoolhouse". It's a wonderful daytime show that covers/teaches much more than ANY public school begins to teach.

It's captured the attention of hubby and grown kids, at our house. It reminds me of School House Rock, in some ways.

I also remember loving "In The News" on Saturday mornings....(dating myself ;)

314 posted on 06/27/2013 8:48:57 AM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs stay silent.)
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To: dfwgator; All

The social media comments on the first coast news are disturbing and IMHO demonstrate just how much the Agitator-in-Chief has stirred up the ethnic hatred.

One comment, ‘if Zimmerman doesn’t go to jail all hell was going to break loose’. those doing the commenting have their “pictures” on their comments.


315 posted on 06/27/2013 8:49:17 AM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: Chickensoup

Thanks. I’ll check into that.


316 posted on 06/27/2013 8:49:42 AM PDT by butterdezillion (,)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Is that her ‘court hair’?

Looks like the hair of a sumo wrestler

317 posted on 06/27/2013 8:50:45 AM PDT by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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To: TexasCajun
The, “Izzz Can Write Cursive, Just Don’t Read It”, Defense.

Is that better than "I smoked pot, but I didn't inhale"?

318 posted on 06/27/2013 8:52:06 AM PDT by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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Has she always been bouncing around while testifying?


319 posted on 06/27/2013 8:52:25 AM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: CodeToad

“”””Illiterate. In this day and age, really?”””””

Not illiterate. Just really really stupid. I mean barely-manage-to-feed-herself stupid.
Kids nowadays don’t study cursive. I think it will get to a point where they don’t even write on paper at all. Just texting lazy textspeak. I’ll bet she can send a text on her Obamaphone in 2 seconds flat. Of course, it will be textspeak jibberish that doesn’t resemble English words but thats how she learned how to ‘holla’.

Sad sign for America’s future.


320 posted on 06/27/2013 8:52:45 AM PDT by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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