George Zimmerman Files $100 Million Lawsuit Against Trayvon Martin's Family, Alleging They Hired an Imposter to Play the Role of "The Girlfriend on the Phone With Trayvon"

The lawsuit alleges that Rachel Jenteal -- of "That's real retarded, sir" fame -- was not the woman on the phone with Trayvon Martin just before the attack.

The suit claims that that woman refused to testify -- so the Martin family hired someone to claim she was the one on the phone to try to convict Zimmerman.

And to then to relay false details of a phone call she was never on to try to hang Zimmerman.

Interesting stuff.

It never made sense that Rachel Jeantel was Martin's "girlfriend." I mean, give me a break.

The Trayvon Martin case was built on a fraud, with a key witness being swapped out with an imposter when the real witness wouldn’t testify, George Zimmerman said in a lawsuit Wednesday.

The lawsuit says Martin was on the phone with his girlfriend, a vivacious 16-year-old named Brittany Diamond Eugene, when Zimmerman killed him on Feb. 26, 2012. At trial, prosecutors produced the plump, slow-spoken 18-year-old Rachel Jeantel as the girl who had crucial insight into his final moments by being on the phone with him.

The lawsuit says Eugene refused to provide the version of events used to build a narrative of racism at trial, so Jeantel, who reads at a fourth-grade level, was pressured into pretending to be "Diamond."

The lawsuit seeks $100 million and names both young women as defendants, plus Martin's parents, who it says were well aware of the swap.

Zimmerman’s lawyer filed the lawsuit in state court in Florida and it also targets the state of Florida and its prosecutors, who allegedly initially falsely told the defense that Martin’s cellphone was too damaged to extract its data, when it actually contained evidence damaging to their case. That includes not only evidence of the witness swap, but also texts showing Martin previously discussing gun sales and bragging of beating up a "snitch" and saying, "He aint bleed nuff 4 me, only his nosez." Prosecutors also ran out the clock by repeatedly ignoring the defense's entitlement to exculpatory evidence, the suit says.

posted by Ace of Spades at 01:19 PM

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