The Trayvon Martin discussion

[Freethinker]

Actually from what I am reading here I love her...lol...she is priceless. BUT she just may not be educated and she is young so she needs to be allowed some lattitude.

Unless I heard wrong, she's 19. She's a senior in high school.

[sarabei]

Oh she is wonderful for the prosecution, her pain and how hard she is trying to keep it together is bleeding out. His not so subtle attempts to paint her as a terrible person, an awful liar for not going to the wake are backfiring badly especially when she told him "you've got to understand, you've got to understand, I was the last person to speak to him" the pain in that girls voice is going to resonate with the women on that jury.

I thought this man was supposed to be such a great attorney?

You guys....music to my ears cause I can't hear this at work. When the defense is being blown out of the water....makes my ticker sing!

[queenaevadamthng]

Kinda sounds like the quiet spoken 19 y/o little girl is getting the best of a college educated attorney...hhhmmm..nope not looking good at all.

[animosity]

i like her. she's funny and believable, but i feel like she is maybe uneducated or a little slow. she seems to get caught off guard sometimes and tends to respond with the affirmative usually and then thinks about it for a moment before coming back with something like, wait! no... that's not what happened. she kind of reminds me of the kind of kid that would be in a lot of trouble if she was being interrogated... easily led or caught in a seeming contradiction. but what makes up for it is her tenacity when she figures out what she means to say.

[sarabei]

I agree; I think she's doing fine. She's young and she's getting annoyed that he's asking her the same thing over and over again. She just doesn't have the maturity yet to not show her annoyance. Wait until she gets older and has to go to idiotic meetings

Yeah tell me about it! I hate the word "meeting" now! I hope she does resonate with the jurors. Again, she is very young and it is OK for that to show. I mean all the people slamming her should think, how many trials has she been on the stand for? Not everyone at a trial is a couch detective so to speak!

[sarabei]

Unless I heard wrong, she's 19. She's a senior in high school.

Yeah, like I said, young and probably not much experience with court proceedings.

[sarabei]

i like her. she's funny and believable, but i feel like she is maybe uneducated or a little slow. she seems to get caught off guard sometimes and tends to respond with the affirmative usually and then thinks about it for a moment before coming back with something like, wait! no... that's not what happened. she kind of reminds me of the kind of kid that would be in a lot of trouble if she was being interrogated... easily led or caught in a seeming contradiction. but what makes up for it is her tenacity when she figures out what she means to say.

I think you hit the nail on the head!

[Harlette]

Actually from what I am reading here I love her...lol...she is priceless. BUT she just may not be educated and she is young so she needs to be allowed some lattitude.

as vinny p just said - "she doesn't speak the kings english"

they are also trying to say she's a big fat liar because when the police called her, her mom was out of the country, so she told them she was a minor - she was 18 at the time - because she was afraid to go the police w/ out her mom being there smh

[I doubt it]

Actually from what I am reading here I love her...lol...she is priceless. BUT she just may not be educated and she is young so she needs to be allowed some lattitude.

She is 19. She spent weeks watching Arias learning how not to be cross_examined. Excruciating testimony.

[mialynneb]

Really? "Did you ever think you were going to be his girlfriend?"

[Ron_NYC]

Thanks for explaining what's going on folks.

[Harlette]

Really? "Did you ever think you were going to be his girlfriend?"

yea this old man doesn't understand - "no i'm not his gf we just done stuff" - oh so stuff so your his gf?? - no, we just did stuff

eta: and this old guy keeps hammering on how many text messages the sent - there were 100' and 100's

does he not know any one under 30??

[M Joy]

This is getting weird.

[mialynneb]

I'm paraphrasing but I was laughing when she said, no you you canceled the interview with me on that Friday to interview Trayvon's brother. He says they were pressed for time. She says, well you could have interviewed me on Thursday!

[dianalyn]

LOL she just put him in his place, she knew date and time when the interview took place and when the follow up happened. Him with his notes, pack of paralegals does not have that information?

[TessD]

The defense is trying so hard to depict Rachel as a liar but it's not working and the the longer she stays on the stand, the more she repeats "Trayvon was being followed." Defense -->

lol! This girl has attitude!

[mialynneb]

So now they're trying to impeach her?

[Freethinker]

Yeah, like I said, young and probably not much experience with court proceedings.

No witnesses are experienced except the police etc. Sabrina's son is 13 and did just fine.

[wasthinking]

LOL she just put him in his place, she knew date and time when the interview took place and when the follow up happened. Him with his notes, pack of paralegals does not have that information?

Alisia Adamson @AlisiaEsq

Rachel Jeantel (Dee Dee) is very precise with her dates. And she has completely taken over this cross examination

[sarabei]

I knew she had TUDE!! And yeah, I am sure she was glued to Jodi Arias trial taking notes so she could totally "Oh Snap" the defense team in this trial.

[ImBatman!]

Glad to see that she is holding her own on the stand! I admit I was wrong about a previous post.

[sarabei]

No witnesses are experienced except the police etc. Sabrina's son is 13 and did just fine.

Depends on how many trials you have been involved in and how much court you pay attention to. So yeah, you can be more exposed than other people who are not interested in criminal cases.

[Shins]

I knew she had TUDE!! And yeah, I am sure she was glued to Jodi Arias trial taking notes so she could totally "Oh Snap" the defense team in this trial.

Yeah, she totally seems like the type to research defense trial tactics...

Gurl jus got that "no you didn't" 'tude.

[Harlette]

So now they're trying to impeach her?

because of the one interview, but that interview was done by martin atty crump and he gave to abc after sanford police said they weren't gonna press charges, crump sounds like he was being sneaky w/ her at the time

[wasthinking]

Glad to see that she is holding her own on the stand! I admit I was wrong about a previous post.

me too. My overall impression is how much her teen immaturity comes through and makes her credible ironicaly even when confessing her lies.