Rachel Jeantel on Trial

As much as anything else in the saga of race, fear, and firearms that is the death of Trayvon Martin and the murder trial of George Zimmerman, the testimony of Rachel Jeantel, a nineteen-year-old rising high-school senior sometimes described as MartinRachel Jeantel, the state's star witness in the George Zimmerman murder trial, took the stand on Wednesday and Thursday to testify to the conversation she had with Trayvon Martin shortly before his death. However, before Prosecution star witness Rachel Jeantel and defense attorney Don West went back and forth Thursday in a grueling, five-hour cross-examination in the George Zimmerman trial. The teen is key to the prosecution's case because phone records prove she was As #CrackerGate seemingly came to a close during today's edition of the George Zimmerman murder trial, star witness Rachel Jeantel told the defense lawyer

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