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Cross-examination has been described as a kind of jujitsu. tonight, we want to give you an idea how it s done. the defense cross-examination of rachel jeantel has been a textbook example. one shows her tone on the witness stand yesterday, and then something from today. do you watch first 48? i didn t hear her? do you watch first 48? i m sorry, the first 48? a show. had you seen any press conferences or news i had told you, i do not watch news. and then we met again the next month. ....
Now, that s progressive. cross-examination has been described as a kind of jujitsu. tonight, we want to give you an idea how it s done. the defense cross-examination of rachel jeantel has been a textbook example. one shows her tone on the witness stand yesterday, and then something from today. do you watch first 48? i didn t hear her? do you watch first 48? i m sorry, the first 48? a show. had you seen any press conferences or news i had told you, i do not watch news. and then we met again the next month. no, we met again that friday. hmmm. when you did not want to ....
Testimony, starting off very strong. she told jurors that she actually heard martin describe zimmerman as a creepy man. she said she heard the two confront one another with words before the shooting took place and that she heard martin scream get off! get off! moments before the shooting took place. it was during defense cross-examination that she started to falter a little bit. the defense was trying to poke holes in her story and label her as a noncredible witness. they say she s been inconsistent throughout. initially she said she was 16. she is actually 19 years old. she initially lied about why she did not attend martin s funeral. they are trying to use this to label her as a noncredible witness. she is back on the stand this morning at 9 a.m. steve: thank you. now this. i respectfully decline to answer any questions and invoke my fifth amendment privilege to remain silent. alisyn: another i.r.s. official, greg roseman, ....
and, trace, the happiest we saw of her was when the judge excused her to head back to miami. however, the judge warned her that since she may be called back to testify she cannot talk at all about what she said or may say in the future. before the judge excused her, the prosecutors had a chance to redirect. did they strengthen her testimony? perhaps a little bit. by addressing the obvious problem jurors had in understanding her soft-spoken and often slang-heavy answers to the defense cross-examination. the prosecutor had her point out that because she comes from a careerow and spanish-speaking household and her english isn t that great. earlier the zimmerman defendant suggested was not george zimmerman but trayvon martin who made this a racial incident. one thing about what trayvon martin told you, that made you think this was racial? ....
Is his state of mind is ridiculous. the state is stretching here to get the phone calls in to proof some sort of state of mind. what they should have done is sit back, wait to see what the defense cross-examination was and when they brought up something about his state of mind or brought up that he was not a sraeu lengt violent person then at that point they would be relevant. bill: do you think they win or lose on this one. i think they lose out right, but if the defense brings it up i think then it becomes relevant and it will come in. the defense has to be very careful, and i don t know if this defense is that careful. it seems like they are kind of making some slip ups here and there. bill: mark fuhrman in idaho you said something very interesting to our producers earlier today. you believe if the jurors decide this case on emotion, suggesting race, that zimmerman will be found guilty. what do you mean by that? well, bill, when you look at the opening statements for the prosecu ....