Originally posted March 5th upon finding out Witness 8 was never hospitalized:

ORLANDO – […] Attorneys for George Zimmerman were expected to ask his judge this morning to order the state’s most important witness, the young Miami woman who was on the phone with Trayvon Martin just before he was shot, to produce medical records.

However, defense lawyer Don West made a startling claim shortly after the hearing began: The state had revealed, before the hearing, that there are no medical records.

The woman, the defense lawyer said, “misrepresented” in a sworn statement that she missed Trayvon’s funeral because she had been hospitalized.

“In fact, she lied,” West said.

Prosecutor John Guy confirmed there will be no medical records, effectively confirming that there was no hospital trip. (more…)

Bearing false and improper witness

I am stupid busy right now trying to get back home and out of this damned rest area using a broadband connection that stinks. (Also traffic just sucks) AND I have to be back over here at 8:30am tomorrow  – (we will put up video of W8 testimony asap) 

In the interim, remove your snark hats, remove your emotional dropped jaw, and focus, focus, focus on what she said today – while contrasted against:

1.)  Her first original interview with Ben Crump and ABC.

2.)  Her first written statement.

3.)  Her first interview with State of Florida LEO

What specific aspects are lies and faleshoods.   After you have provided the context for the falsehood identified, then outline the possible line of inquiry that West/O’Mara might take to expose the lie in court.   Again, be intellectual in analysis – not emotional.

Provide the substance and How the question would be appropriately framed.

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Benjamin Crump on AC360 last night.  Anderson Cooper asks him a question about “Dee Dee” (whom everyone assumes is witness #8) and his involvement in finding her – Watch Crump strategically parse words to deflect the “media evidence” onto the phone records.

Dee Dee  (16 year old, hospitalized, minor child, with extremely concerned parents) becomes known as a phone number.   A phone number is not a person.

Why?

Because then the owner of the phone number, whoever she is selected to be, becomes Dee Dee. (more…)

Had the defense been prepared to make this argument -which understandably they were not – they could have removed Tracy from seeing/listening to witness testimony based on him giving intentionally and factually incorrect statements to Law Enforcement.

Skip video to 18:00 for the ruling and understanding of precedent used by Nelson to establish grounds for ruling:

Using the Beasley case as citation, the lie told by Tracy Martin about driving Trayvon 1/2 way to Sanford during his sworn statement to Law Enforcement on April 2nd 2012;  which is now conclusively shown as a false statement with evidence submitted by the State of Trayvon Martin’s phone records of him taking the bus the whole way and texting his sitting at the bus-stop waiting for Brandi Greene to pick him up;  Tracy Martin – as a potential trial witness – could be excluded (sequestered) from the courtroom.

Of course the point is now moot – but could still be argued if the Defense wanted it to be.

You’ll never get the 22 minutes back again, but you’ve come this far….

It’s amazing really to pause and reflect upon the fact THIS, this conversation, this interview, is the ONLY evidence that created the probable cause affidavit and led to the arrest of George Zimmerman. The entire case is established around this. And yet, she’ll never reach the Witness Stand….

Here’s the way you can help and the way we are going to approach this trial.

Unfortunately, because I’m in battle with Miami-Dade, the next few days look sketchy at best for me to review every moment of the trial. I’ve got to coordinate legal pressure on the Shadow Dwellers who are trying to keep a lid on the Trayvon Miami angle. The FOIAs (public records) will reveal the truth – but, as you know, they have a vested interest in waiting until after trial to release. Yes, the information is THAT explosive.

However, that said, after all the research, assembling the characters, and dozens of interviews with people specifically attached to the evidence and witnesses, I/we know hundreds of lies told by potential witnesses for the prosecution. Many of them are on record with claims, affidavits, and some sworn statements that are factually false.

They are not untruthful, they are not misstatements, they are lies.

There is a difference.

A lie is based on a false statement with a specific intention to mislead. (more…)