Back at 3:2. On the record.
Bring jury back in. Can we get Ms Jeantel back in the courtroom please? Laughter.
Please be seated, Mr West when you are ready.
West: You met Trayvon in Kindergarten? 2nd Grade.
Reconnected on February 1st, 2012. That's her birthday, she remembers the day.
Yes, that's when we begain to 'laugh around'.
From Feb 1 to Feb 26, when he died did you see him 3 times? No, I saw him a lot. (implying more than 3) Not in a boyfriend girlfriend kind of way.
On Feb 26 did you text with him, and talk with him? Yes.
She says that part of the time they did a three way conversation that day with a third person on the phone.
Now, everyone is confused about evidence numbers.
Whatever it is will come in as Defense Evidence #16.
West has misplaced the extra copy to show witness. Someone gives him one, a list of the beginning times and ending times of calls on Feb 26.
West shows her the list that starts at 5:09 PM. She says there were more calls that day. He does not adequately explain that for whatever purposes they are starting with the 5:09 PM call. West tediously reads the start and end times of each call. She says yes to each.
What time did Trayvon tell you he was leaving to go to the store? She says: around six.
Do you know which one of these phone calls might be one that was while he was at or in the store? No.
6:23:49 to 7:09:11 time period.
He wants to concentrate on that time period. He lost her (and me). Okay, it is apparently the time from when Trayvon left the store. Zim saw him in complex at 7:04. HENCE,
asking the witness about if she knows what Trayvon was doing during that time period.
West introducing the idea that Trayvon was hanging around a mail area in another complex.
West asking her about the distance between 7/11 and the complex. He is asking her again about the time period and what and where Trayvon was in that time period. He had to go about a mile.
She says the rain had caught him and he took a short cut to the mail area.
When Trayvon said to you he was in the mail area, you don't have any information as to why it took him so long to get there? NO.
The night of the event, you believed it was just a fight? In a word, YES.
Now West is going through what she previously said. He is totally confusing her and me.
Now on to Crump, and her talking to him. She didn't really want to talk with him?
Now on to she thought someone had been arrested for the death of Trayvon and she thought the police would contact her, not that she should contact them.
She reminds West of "The First 48" TV show, where the police contact the last number called on the victim's cellphone. Which is why she didn't call the police.
He is going on and on, I don't think he understands the concept.
First phone call was from Trayvon's father. He told her he thought she might be the last person to have talked with Trayvon.
The wake was March 3rd. By March 17th she still didn't know that (George) had not been arrested.
She doesn't watch TV News. She only watches the weather. She reiterates that. She does not watch news.
She agreed to talk with Trayvon's father's attorney.
The next day, she went to school, got a phone call, she didn't answer, his mother left a long text message asking her to speak with her mother. Ms Fulton thought Rachel was a minor. Rachel's mother was out of town. Rachel told her mother some of what was going on and Rachel's mother agreed for Rachel to speak to the attorney.
Rachel asks West if she could just tell what happened that day. So that's what she is doing.
Basically, her mother agreed for Rachel to meet with Ms Fulton. No one had talked with Rachel about what had happened. She didn't want to see people cry. Her (Ms Fulton) son dead.
When you told her what happened, did you use the words that Trayvon Martin spoke? NO. Not in detail. Just told her that he was being followed. She is talking about Plan A which was to give Ms Fulton a letter.
She tries to express how she felt at the time, how it feels to be the last person to talk with someone before they are killed.
Rachel says: "I don't remember where I was supposed to meet them." It was agreed to do it over the phone. West implies that it was all planned to be in person and broadcast or videotaped possibly at a TV studio or something.
She knew she was being recorded on the phone interview with Atty Crump. With Trayvon's mother and father listening.
West says a reporter from ABC News was present during that interview and recording. She says she didn't know that.
Now discussing again why Rachel had lied and said she had gone to the hospital instead of the wake. She said she was sixteen to protect herself as a minor instead of her true age of 18 at the time.
Mr West tries to make a speaking objection to his own question. Oh dear!
Approach the bench time.
