and as she was describing, again. she s on the phone with trayvon martin the night he s shot and killed. she s describing what trayvon martin told her on the phone. right. trayvon s words. she s simply relaying trayvon s words to the jurors. so she said, describing this man who we now know was george zimmerman, as a crazy bleep cracker. creepy. well, yesterday it was crazy. today it was creepy. creepy. here s the thing. from my perspective, it helps her credibility to a certain extent because everyone knows she s trayvon s friend, so she has a side in all this. right? she wants george zimmerman convicted. she won t say i don t know, she s not going to be asked that. but we know which side she comes down. she s trayvon s friend. right. yet she is saying something that makes trayvon not look that great. so if i m the prosecution, i can argue she s truthful, ladies and gentlemen. she s not hiding anything from you. she s not making things up. she even volunteered that stat
i m brooke baldwin. bottom of the hour. you are watching cnn. as this last moments in trayvon mart martin s life here, the last words his friend heard him say over the phone, whether martin might have confronted george zimmerman, dominated testimony today in zimmerman s murder trial there in sanford, florida. these are live pictures. the last person to talk to trayvon martin on the phone returned to the witness stand this morning and just finished. just about five minutes ago. she is rachel jeantel. she is this young woman, 1 ye9 years aftyear s of age, going into her senior year of high school. she faced a full morning of grilling by zimmerman s attorney who tried to shake her testimony about her retelling of her phone conversation with martin in the days after she was killed.
yes, sir. was if hard for you to talk about this? yes, sir. okay. and in that statement, you as best you could attempted to tell what you remember? on objective now, this is the third of a series of leading questions. this is redirect. this is a direct question rather than leading. i ll rephrase, your honor. thank you. sustained. you recall in that statement stating that i m sorry the april 2nd statement that mr. west asked you about that trayvon martin was running away from the person? yes, sir. and you also made reference that trayvon martin said the man described him as a creepy, white object. well, at this point, beyond the scope of the crime scene examination and not responsive
to one of the issues raised during the cross and it s also leading. overruled to the first two objections. as to the leading, i will give a little leeway to get a frame of reference and then make sure your questions aren t leading. yes, your honor. my question is, do you recall mr. west asking you that trayvon martin referred to the man who was following him as a creepy, white yes, sir. objection. i didn t say that. that s a mischaracterization of the testimony. sustained because i think the words were creepy ass cracker. i apologize. were the words creepy, pardon my language, creepy ass cracker? yes, sir. okay. and you recall mr. west asking you about that. yes, sir. okay. and also, and to you, is that a derogatory or is that the way
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