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."
She can't read cursive!!!
So "her letter" wasn't hers at all. She didn't
write it and she can't read it, and therefore doesn't even know if the
words were what she wanted to express, although she claimed on the stand they
were. Of course that's retrospective...... and more than a bit
sheepish.
It's rather funny when you claim to have "written"
something but you can't read what you allegedly "wrote", eh?
Yeah.
So how many other lies -- like, for instance, why
you didn't go to Martin's wake -- did this "witless"
tell?
One of the amusing parts of court cases is that you
often get to see cross-examinations like this, and what look to be rather
solidly-expressed opinions and recollections of events turn out to be nothing
but mush -- or worse, "enhanced."