One of the most damaging moments for the prosecution in the trial of George Zimmerman trial was the inexplicable decision to lead with Rachel Jeantel, a friend of Trayvon Martin’s. Jeantel proceeded to admit to previously lying and then gave conflicted and at points unintelligible testimony. Her statement that Martin called Zimmerman a “cracker” further helped the defense in balancing the derogatory statements of Zimmerman. After the verdict, Jeantel has made statements that seem unhinged and again raise the question on why the prosecutors would place her so prominently in their case in chief. The latest controversy is a new allegation from Jeantel that she warned Trayvon that Zimmerman might be a gay rapist. She is not the only person associated with the trial who seems to be courting the press in the case with disastrous results.
In an interview with Piers Morgan, she said “People need to understand, he didn’t want that creepy ass cracka going to his father or girlfriend’s house to go get — mind you, his little brother is there. Mind you I told you, I told Trayvon, [Zimmerman] might have been a rapist.”
In a truly bizarre interview, Morgan asks Jeantel to school him on the correct spelling and meaning of such terms as “cracka” and “nigga.”
Jeantel called the verdict “BS” and said “Well, the jury, they see their facts. My thoughts of the jury, they old, that’s old school people. We in a new school, our generation, my generation. So –”
Morgan then appears to turn into a cultural anthropologist and asked clinically:
“Let’s talk about ‘creepy ass cracka.’ People have said that that is a phrase used by black people, cracka, to describe a white person. Is that true?
JEANTEL: No! Like I said —
MORGAN: How do you spell it, first of all?
JEANTEL: Cracka.
MORGAN: There’s no ‘e-r,’ right?
JEANTEL: No, it’s an ‘a’ at the end.
MORGAN: C-r-a-c-k-a.
JEANTEL: Yeah. And that’s a person who act like they’re a police [officer], who, like a security guard who acting like — that’s what I said to them. Trayvon said creepy ass cracka.
MORGAN: It means he thought it was a police or a security guard?
JEANTEL: Yeah, he acting like the police. And then he keep telling me that the man is still watching him. So, if it was a security guard or a policeman, they would come up to Trayvon and say, ‘Do you have a problem? Do you need help?’ You know, like normal people.
Once again, it is unclear why Jeantel did not emphasize the concern over a male rape on the stand. One could almost feel the prosecutor cringing at the interview with so many questioning their judgment in relying so heavily on Jeantel.
While on the subject of people behaving badly from the case (a rather long list), there is juror B-37 who announced in an interview that she was going to write a book and had enlisted an agent. She even named her agent as Sharlene Martin. After an outcry over the effort to profit from the case (not to mention a pretty limited foundation for a book). Martin tweeted that juror B37 had regained her sanity and dropped the plans for a book (that was going to be co-written by her attorney husband). She explained that the isolation of being sequestered “shielded me from the depth of pain that exists among the general public over every aspect of this case.”
Really? It took this long to figure out that there was pain over the verdict. What tipped you off after you arranged for an interview, went to the interview, and announced your book? Was it the mass protests in various cities or continuing coverage on television. Ironically, she actually proved the accuracy of West’s disastrous joke in his opening statement: “Knock, knock. Who’s there? George Zimmerman. George Zimmerman who? Congratulations, you’re on the jury.” The joke was bizarre first because you should never cut jokes in a murder trial opening statement with a dead teenage boy. Second, if the jury got the joke, they would realize they were the punch line. The point is that only morons or cave-dwelling recluses would not know anything about the case. Well then walked in juror B-37.
Source: Real Clear Politics
Again, see the above response @ 4:05 pm and your continued incivility, AY.
Buffoonery is really most unbecoming.
You done showing how big a tool you are?
You done yet making a fool of yourself yet?
Apparently not.
At least we know you don’t have any say on the blog…. Which must really hurt you…. Or whole bunches of folks would be banned….. Your hollow threats are like helium balloons…. Eventually they drop to the ground and wither…… Yep…. Seen it before…. Blow hard….
My relationship with Elaine and Blouise is just fine and none of your business. Again, see the above response, AY. It works better if you’re not reading it through the bottom of a glass.
Gene,
Half a$$ed is like no admission at all…. I see your pissing off and on even your once staunchest supporters…. See how that works for ya…. No need for people with dual personalities today…. Sell your wares to someone buying….
“I wonder what kind of logic she used to arrive at her conclusion about what actually happened on the night that Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin.”
Other than “poor” and “prejudicial”? I’m sure it would paint a curious picture.
Bron,
“Trying to make a buck off of a dead child. WTF is wrong with people?”
Good question. I wonder what kind of logic she used to arrive at her conclusion about what actually happened on the night that Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin.
AY,
Learn to read, dumbass.
“July 16, 2013 at 9:41 pm
mespo,
Oops. My bad. Mea maxima culpa. Good to know that though.
And my condolences.”
And if you want to talk uncivil, let’s talk about your continued sniping and generally pissy attitude about not getting your way and finding out that you really do have no say in how this blog is run. Or perhaps the incivility of lying to a nominal friend to attempt to gain advantage in a dispute with the third party.
Either way, you mistake me for someone who gives a flying f*ck what you think of me personally. You lost that privilege all on your own. By your own hand even.
I do hope that was clear enough for you to understand through that sugar haze running through your brain, oh ex-friend o’ mine.
Bron,
Same ole same ole….. Thanks for asking…..
John Henry Spooner Shooting VIDEO: Evidence Shows Darius Simmons Killed (GRAPHIC)
Posted: 07/17/2013
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/17/john-henry-spooner-video-darius-simmons_n_3612378.html
A video entered as evidence in the murder trial of John Henry Spooner on Tuesday appears to show the 76-year-old shooting his 13-year-old neighbor Darius Simmons dead.
The Milwaukee senior is charged with first-degree homicide after the alleged incident in May last year. Jurors saw the video (below), taken from Spooner’s own surveillance camera, that shows the suspect walk out of his house, brandishing a gun. After a short argument, the man in the video waves the gun around before he shoots Simmons in the chest. Simmons manages to flee outside the scope of the camera before dying.
The evidence was recorded in court Tuesday and provided to HuffPost Crime by the Journal-Sentinel.
Simmons’ mother, Patricia Larry, testified in court that Spooner accused her son of burglarizing his home, stealing several weapons. She said Spooner told Simmons he’d teach him a lesson before firing the fatal shot.
She added that her son died in her arms moments later.
Police say Spooner admitted to the crime, and that he claimed Simmons was part of a black family next door that had caused nothing but trouble, according to the Associated Press.
Jury selection began Monday, and potential jurors were asked about their thoughts on racial issues, as well as the recent and George Zimmerman trial, according to local news station TMJ-4.
Jurors will need to decide whether Spooner intentionally killed Simmons, and whether Spooner was suffering from a mental illness at the time that prevented him from knowing right from wrong.
AY:
how are you today? Doing anything interesting for the summer?
Lets see you admit you were wrong about where zimmermann dad was a magistrate….. You fool…. Still can’t….can you?
Elaine:
She lost her book deal? Oh my.
Trying to make a buck off of a dead child. WTF is wrong with people?
That’s logical based upon your rudeness…. Civil… Based upon what you can understand…l
Your damn right Gene….. You replicate a douche…. How’s that for civility…
That fame is a fickle mistress.
Elaine,
Regarding WX, I just had to run an errand and it is HOT. Almost three digits but not quite. Also humid at 92%. Randyjet will know what I am talking about when I say we have one heck of a lifting index at the moment, because the late afternoon cumulonimbus is building. Part of the sky is dark purplish grey.
Zimmerman juror who is ‘praying for Trayvon’s parents’ claims she never had a book deal and says she wants her ‘normal life’ back
– One of the six jurors, identified only as B37, spoke out about the verdict
– ‘I wanted to find him guilty of not using his senses…you can’t charge him with anything because he didn’t do anything unlawful’ she said
– Comes after her book deal was cancelled following social media outrage
– Four of the five other jurors put out a statement requesting privacy and distancing themselves from B37’s version of events
By Meghan Keneally
17 July 2013
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2367349/Zimmerman-juror-B37-claims-book-deal-happened-says-wants-normal-life-back.html
Excerpt:
The outspoken juror from George Zimmerman’s murder trial who tried to get a book deal out of her experience says she wants her ‘normal life’ back.
‘No other family should be forced to endure what the Martin family has endured,’ the juror, known only as Juror B37, said in a statement to CNN. ‘My prayers are with Travon’s parents for their loss, as they have always been. I now wish for me and my family to recover from being selected for this jury and return to a normal life.’
Public outrage ensued as news emerged this week that Juror B37 was considering a book deal based on her trial experience. An interview that she gave to Anderson Cooper also caused a stir.
She addressed the deal in her statement, saying, ‘As for the alleged “book deal,” there is not one at this time.
‘There was an agreement with a literary agent to explore the concept of a book which discussed the impact of sequestration on my perceptions of this serious case, while being compared to the perceptions of an attorney who was closely following the trial from outside the “bubble,”‘ she added. ‘The relationship with the agent ceased the moment I realized what had been occurring in the world during the weeks of my sequestration.’
Juror B37 made the statements after four other jurors released a statement distancing themselves from her.
Elaine,
Nice try but I ain’t no trout.