George Zimmerman Witness Can't Read Letter She 'Wrote' About Shooting

[PapaG]

What a farce.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/george-zim...wrote-shooting/story?id=19504826#.UcxaE_mTgyB

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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[3RA1N1AC]

wow, umm, the prosecutors had to know she would be a horrible witness, wtf were they thinking

 

[Eastoff]

wow indeed.

 

[Charcoal Filtered]

What a farce.

You mean jumping to conclusions without all of the facts was a bad idea?

 

[Further]

Sucks for the prosecution.

But man, I feel bad for this girl. It's sad, the situation, her education, the embarrassment on national tv, all of it. She is so young, we all were nitwits back at that age. I would hate to have been put on a national stage due to a court case back when I was young (or now).

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Yeah. 19 year old high school junior so young

hoop fam

 

[Further]

19 is young.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

19 is young.

pretty much shows trayvon isn't that little cute 12 year old boy but a ghetto ass that would be hanging around a hood rat like this.

 

[Further]

pretty much shows trayvon isn't that little cute 12 year old boy but a ghetto ass that would be hanging around a hood rat like this.

He was 16.

You described me at 16. Now I work on curing diseases.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

she'll have a long career of public service at the DMV.

 

[Further]

she'll have a long career of public service at the DMV.

Now that I fear is true.

 

[Nikolokolus]

pretty much shows trayvon isn't that little cute 12 year old boy but a ghetto ass that would be hanging around a hood rat like this.

Which neither proves nor absolves Zimmerman's guilt.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Which neither proves nor absolves Zimmerman's guilt.

In america you are presumed innocent, not guilty. The state has nothing. This is their star witness. They only have speculation..and that isnt enough to convict ..zimmerman is being prosecuted because the media portrayed trayvon as a 12 year old skittles eating black baby.l being hunted for sport by a "white mexican cracka"

hoop fam

 

[Nikolokolus]

In america you are presumed innocent, not guilty. The state has nothing. This is their star witness. They only have speculation..and that isnt enough to convict ..zimmerman is being prosecuted because the media portrayed trayvon as a 12 year old skittles eating black baby.l being hunted for sport by a "white mexican cracka"

hoop fam

You must think I have a dog in this fight; I am completely dispassionate about this case and I don't follow it. I'm just pointing out that your post about Martin being a hood rat is utterly irrelevant to the facts of the case ... whatever they might be.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

You must think I have a dog in this fight; I am completely dispassionate about this case and I don't follow it. I'm just pointing out that your post about Martin being a hood rat is utterly irrelevant to the facts of the case ... whatever they might be.

Could be argued it would make him aggressive.

hoop fam

 

[3RA1N1AC]

You must think I have a dog in this fight; I am completely dispassionate about this case and I don't follow it. I'm just pointing out that your post about Martin being a hood rat is utterly irrelevant to the facts of the case ... whatever they might be.

well, if the defense can paint martin as "ghetto" or a gangster per se, zimmermans claim of self defense hunts better with the jury i would assume

they are in court now, so "facts" arent necessarily relevant

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I still think he was making sizzurp aka purple drank

hoop fam

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

aren't we all glad he shot that kid? I know I am.

 

[maxiep]

Does anyone really think the 2nd degree charge isn't politically motivated? The charge--if there even should have even been one--should have been manslaughter.

Take race out of the incident and it would have been settled a long time ago. However, this tragedy was like shit to the Race Hustling Flies.

 

[DaLincolnJones]

Sucks for the prosecution.

But man, I feel bad for this girl. It's sad, the situation, her education, the embarrassment on national tv, all of it. She is so young, we all were nitwits back at that age. I would hate to have been put on a national stage due to a court case back when I was young (or now).

Bah, she is only creating fiction that could sway a jury...

 

[DaLincolnJones]

Does anyone really think the 2nd degree charge isn't politically motivated? The charge--if there even should have even been one--should have been manslaughter.

Take race out of the incident and it would have been settled a long time ago. However, this tragedy was like shit to the Race Hustling Flies.

Obama "If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon..."

 

[maxiep]

Obama "If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon..."

Yep. Our Race Hustler In Chief. He just can't help reverting back to his community organizing roots. Remember what he said about the Cambridge Police?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I remember they wanted to make this a federal matter. W t f because he shot a guy that was bashing his head on the concrete?

hoop fam

 

[DaLincolnJones]

Yep. Our Race Hustler In Chief. He just can't help reverting back to his community organizing roots. Remember what he said about the Cambridge Police?

President Barack Obama says police in Cambridge, Mass., acted "stupidly" this week when they arrested Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, someone they knew was in his own home.

In the final question of a live prime time news conference this evening that largely dealt with health care, Obama was asked about the Gates case.

"My understanding is that Professor Gates then shows his I.D. to show that this is his house and, at that point, he gets arrested for disorderly conduct, charges which are later dropped," Obama said.

Police dispute the extent of Gates' cooperation, saying he didn't initially provide identification when asked and berated the police.

However, Obama continued, "I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that [Gates case]. But I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That's just a fact."

 

[Nikolokolus]

I remember they wanted to make this a federal matter. W t f because he shot a guy that was bashing his head on the concrete?

hoop fam

If some vigilante asshole was following me on the street and confronted me because of my presence there you can bet your ass I'd tell him to get fucked and I'd do my damnedest to smash his skull in if he pulled a weapon.

If somebody wants to confront people on the street like some kind of ersatz cop, they shouldn't be surprised when they don't get the kind of compliance they crave.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

thats the crux of the situation, did zimmerman instigate it

if he did, and im not positive on the law, but it seems that you shouldnt then be able to kill the guy if you are getting beat up

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

If some vigilante asshole was following me on the street and confronted me because of my presence there you can bet your ass I'd tell him to get fucked and I'd do my damnedest to smash his skull in if he pulled a weapon.

If somebody wants to confront people on the street like some kind of ersatz cop, they shouldn't be surprised when they don't get the kind of compliance they crave.

This.

thats the crux of the situation, did zimmerman instigate it

if he did, and im not positive on the law, but it seems that you shouldnt then be able to kill the guy if you are getting beat up

Also this.

 

[Further]

aren't we all glad he shot that kid? I know I am.

Yep, it's not like he was one of the good blacks.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

this is why i always say that black children should carry guns, for self defense

 

[Further]

this is why i always say that black children should carry guns, for self defense

And always wear hoodies, so we don't know if they are black.