Rachel Jeantel, the state's star witness in the George Zimmerman murder trial, took the stand on Wednesday and Thursday to testify to the conversation she had with Trayvon Martin shortly before his death. However, before
At one point during Thursday's cross-examination of a key witness, Zimmerman defense attorney Don West speculated that Trayvon Martin might have been lying to Ms. Jeantel when he told her, during their phone call
Defense lawyer Don West brought up the fact that Rachel Jeantel, star prosecution witness and friend of the victim, had told the court yesterday that she believes she heard “wet grass” during the confrontation between Zimmerman and Martin. “Could you
However, 19-year-old Rachel Jeantel stood firm in her testimony about the night Zimmerman shot the unarmed black 17-year-old after a fight that Jeantel said she overheard while on the phone with Martin. Jeantel has said Martin told her he was being
As much as anything else in the saga of race, fear, and firearms that is the death of Trayvon Martin and the murder trial of George Zimmerman, the testimony of Rachel Jeantel, a nineteen-year-old rising high-school senior sometimes described as Martin
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