Zimmerman Trial LIVE VIDEO – Day 3 – State’s Witnesses
Today we will again be covering the Zimmerman Trial live, all day, with streaming video. Continuing commentary will be posted in the Twitter feed of selected contributors below the first video feed, and breaking news will be added at the bottom of this post.
We’re also trying something a little different today. Typically we post a detailed end-of-day wrap up each evening, but often the detail built into that post means it doesn’t go live until after 8PM. Today we’re going to try to do a brief mid-day update at the lunch recess, and another brief update when the Court recesses for the day. We’ll then follow up with the usual detailed end-of-day wrap up, including video and embedded Tweets, at the usual time in the evening.
This morning Court is expected to start at 9:00AM and continued questioning of the State’s witnesses.
Click here to see our wrap-up and analysis of yesterday’s very, very bad day for the State: Zimmerman Trial Day 2 – Analysis of State’s Witnesses
For all of our prior coverage on issues specific to the Law of Self Defense as covered at my own blog, click here: Law of Self Defense Blog: Zimmerman Trial
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Comments
This Jeantel is amazing. It’s hard to listen to questioning of someone that stupid.
It is a very good thing West is very detail oriented and has the patience of Job. This witness is extremely hard to manage.
Gees, how are you supposed to question some one like that?
How does the court reporter….how does anyone-
I wonder how many in the court room feel like they need a drink right now
Everything is backwards in this trial. It seems that for Zimmerman to go free, the defense will have to prove him innocent beyond a reasonable doubt.
Do you think that the defense will keep her on the stand until the Judge calls it a day? I’d let her stew about her lies overnight and impeach the living daylights out of her tomorrow morning when the jury is fresh.
It seems to me the tapestry the defense is drawing together is this outisder and media influence has poisoned all these witnesses to one extent or another. Instead of tearing down all these witnesses and risking alienating the jury, they are setting them up as victims of outside influences who (through no fault of their own) have their memories tampered with.
This witness is a ticking time bomb. If West can get her angry at him while keeping his calm demeanor, he can get her to implode without getting the jury mad at him. Her reliability is based on entirely on her memory which is not as good as she thinks it is. For example, she corrected West on the day of the week March 16 was. She said it was a Sunday, and West asked her if it might have been Saturday. She was adamant it was Sunday, even after West gave her the opportunity to correct herself. March 16 was on Saturday this year.
As an aside, I would have hated to to be the prosecutor team member assigned the impossible task of prepping her for today’s testimony.
I’m predicting the Bomb.
And DeeDee isn’t majoring in cheerfulness is she?
I don’t think Ms. Jeantel will be in a great frame of mind tomorrow. She seemed tres unhappy that she is subject to the imposition of finishing her testimony. BDLR will have fun thinking about ways to rehabilitate her without using flagrantly improper leading questions.
Utterly amazing. Ms Jeantel is so incoherent and speaks so poorly that it almost impossible to see how she can be cross-examined. The only way is to essentially to show that she is smart enough to knowingly lie. West has his work cut out to show that she is somehow misrepresenting the facts.
From my comment on the other thread, bernie:
West’s plodding, meticulous, style coupled with his calm, unflappable demeanor is the perfect skill set for dealing with a witness like this. I will be very surprised if West is through by the lunch break tomorrow. ISTM he is just getting started. BDLR is clearly doing a slow burn.
Jim: OK, but, without some form of a smoking gun, will the jury be able to sort it out? Her incoherence is just staggering and trying to unravel it, is potentially mind-numbing.
Maybe, bernie, but there is a lot of trial ahead.
DeeDee says she only watches the Weather Channel on tv, but then thinks that West should know about The First 48.
Uh, oh.