Today, June 28th, is DAY #15 (of 3rd week) State of Florida V. George Zimmerman case. [Yesterday] … it was simply not a very good day at all for the prosecution. The primary State witnesses today were Rachel Jeantel, Jenna Lauer, and Selma Mora. The first had her credibility substantively destroyed, the second was powerfully–almost humiliatingly–co-opted by the defense, and the third provided testimony entirely consistent with the defense’s theory of lawful self-defense. (continue reading)
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Stella has now completed uploading the remaining FOIA statements from our exhaustive 9 month back and forth with the Miami-Dade School Police Department. The Tree House has a Scribd account which can be located HERE.
All of the documents are now posted to open public review. However they are, in many cases, “redacted“.
Meaning when you are reading the transcribed text when you see the “- -” symbol in the body of the text, there is a portion omitted by the transcriber at the request of legal counsel for the Miami-Dade Public School System. Here is a summary of the latest FOIA release using the text from the initial follow up inquiry: (more…)
This one should interest Mark O’Mara
Sanford Police Department, Sergeant Randy Smith, who was assisting Detective Chris Serino, in the Trayvon Martin case, and who shortly thereafter became Lieutenant Randy Smith, before quickly retiring in January of 2013, appears quite happy to have excluded this information about Trayvon’s interactions with the police department from the Victimology report produced by Serino.
We were wondering who was the decision maker into not including Trayvon’s diverted, and unofficial, criminal record from the case assembly. Was it Serino, or was it Randy Smith? Here is Smith’s own sworn affidavit to the internal affairs division of M-DSPD. This should interest Mark O’Mara and Don West quite a bit.
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With ongoing efforts still in the works, where we are debating/arguing legal distinctions between FERPA and HIPAA as it pertains to public releases of this information, we have secured “redacted” copies for immediate review.
Where you see “– –” symbols this implies the redacted portion of the transcript. The redactions include terminology of reference to: “Diversionary Programs”, “Baker Acts”, and/or “Crisis Intervention Teams, or CIT”.
However, with the redactions, and yet understanding what is redacted, you can clearly see the footprint of what was, and perhaps still is, taking place. These affidavits surround an internal affairs investigation begun by M-DSPD Chief Charles Hurley into leaks coming from his School Police Department following the publicity around Miami-Dade school, Krop Senior High School, Trayvon Martin. Trayvon Martin’s behavior was diverted from a criminal record by “diversion”, including falsification of police reports, to avoid contact with the Criminal Justice System.
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Sworn affidavit of former Miami-Dade School Police Dept. Police Chief Charles Hurley about the encounters between M-DSPD and Trayon Martin who was a student at Krop High School.
In the affidavit Chief Hurley outlines his specific construct of using diversionary programs, including Crisis Intervention Teams, and The Baker Act, to keep young black males out of the criminal justice system.
As a result of Chief Hurley’s instructions Krop High, School Resource Officer, Darryl Dunn, falsified police records and referred criminal behavior to school discipline.
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Two of the diversionary incidents revolved around Officer Dunn falsifying the jewelry found in Trayvon’s backpack as “found items”. Meaning he intentionally kept them away from police reporting and put the jewelry in the property room. (more…)
Today, June 27th, is DAY #14 (of 3rd week) State of Florida V. George Zimmerman case. Yesterday Witness #8, Rachael Jeantel, did indeed take the stand. She will be back today to complete her testimony. This is the state’s key, and most important witness. This is also the witness we have exhaustively researched. Having quietly followed her social media, and having talked extensively, to her school classmates for over a year.
But before we discuss Jeantel, a summary: (more…)
Today, June 27th, is DAY #14 (of 3rd week) State of Florida V. George Zimmerman case. Yesterday Witness #8, Rachael Jeantel, did indeed take the stand. She will be back today to complete her testimony. This is the state’s key, and most important witness. This is also the witness we have exhaustively researched. Having quietly followed her social media, and having talked extensively, to her school classmates for over a year.
But before we discuss Jeantel, a summary: (more…)
Today, June 27th, is DAY #14 (of 3rd week) State of Florida V. George Zimmerman case. Yesterday Witness #8, Rachael Jeantel, did indeed take the stand. She will be back today to complete her testimony. This is the state’s key, and most important witness. This is also the witness we have exhaustively researched. Having quietly followed her social media, and having talked extensively, to her school classmates for over a year.
But before we discuss Jeantel, a summary: (more…)
Today, June 27th, is DAY #14 (of 3rd week) State of Florida V. George Zimmerman case. Yesterday Witness #8, Rachael Jeantel, did indeed take the stand. She will be back today to complete her testimony. This is the state’s key, and most important witness. This is also the witness we have exhaustively researched. Having quietly followed her social media, and having talked extensively, to her school classmates for over a year.
But before we discuss Jeantel, a summary: (more…)
Note to all. Yes, I am aware that now fingerprinting has been done, subsequent to Trayvon Martin’s autopsy, it is possible for Miami Dade PD to do a comparison against unsolved crimes in the immediate Miami Gardens area. No, the M-D PD have no interest in the subsequent liability such revelations would create for them. Hence, I believe it might be, part of the “slow walking” of the M-DSPD investigation public records, but not the primary part. – and NO, I’m not going there – that’s for another time – I can only fight on one front at a time.
Yes, Rachel (W8) appears to have legal recourse against the Scheme Team for publicly broadcasting her 3/19/12 statement against her expressed desire not to have such done. Yes, ABC also holds such liability for broadcasting an interview made under conspicuous circumstances.
Yesterday you might have heard Witness #8 describe her historical relationship with Trayvon by saying: “he came around my area“.
This is further connection to something we have found multiple times in conversation with “kids” in the area. This “my area” is also how Trayvon Martin and Kit Durrant connect to Rachel Jeantel.
As she told Don West at the beginning of cross examination: “His friends would come into my neighborhood“, “we’re friends“, and she describes that re-familiarization (having not been good friends since 2006) as happening on her birthday 2/1/12.
Please don’t start putting out Rachel’s address or personal information on this site. If you connect those dots yourself, keep them to yourself. We are concerned about Rachel because we know the ire of her community if she “f__k’s this up”.
Rachel is 19, just finished 11th Grade, born and raised in Miami, Mom is from Haiti, and Dad is from Dominican Republic. She lives with mom.
You may also have heard Witness #8 share that she found out on Monday 2/27/12 that Trayvon had died because of “rumors” coming from Krop High School, and she has “friends that go around his school“. When asked by BDLR about her thoughts after finding out Trayvon was killed W8 shared: “It was just a fight broke out, it was, not taken serious, it was just a fight broke out“…
When describing why she lied to Sybrina, about not going to the wake, W8 says she felt “guilty, because she were the last person to talk to there son“. There’s more there “there”. A long time ago someone posed the theory that W8 egged Trayvon to put the bangaz on the cracka’z. I have resisted the consideration – but I will now confirm, based on conversations in/around W8’s community, it is a more than plausible explanation. (more…)