Key Witness For The Prosecution Testifies At The Zimmerman Trial Today

Here's today's updates in the trial of George Zimmerman.

An alternate juror, identified as a 22-year old single Hispanic man was dismissed for reasons unrelated to the case.

After reviewing case law, the judge has ruled that the state may introduce calls George Zimmerman had previously made to the police.

Today the  prosecution put their star witness in the George Zimmerman on the stand prosecution The witness, 19-year-old Rachel Jeantel (Dee Dee, aka Diamond) was the last person to speak to Trayvon before he was shot.

In April of 2012 Jeantel told Florida investigators that a scared Martin told her he was being followed by a white man as he walked through a gated community in Sanford. Jeantel contends that she heard Martin ask the man, "Why you following me for?"  The "old man," she added replied, "What you doing around here?

Earlier this year, government lawyers acknowledged that Jeantel lied under oath when she claimed that the reason she did not attend Martin's funeral was due to a hospitalization.

To say that Ms. Jeantel does NOT seem to grasp the gravity of the situation is an understatement. At one point she asks attorney John West if he watches the show The First 48 Hours.  Later, when she learns that West would need more hours of cross-examination and redirect, Jentel gasps "WHAT!"

Ms. Jeantel has used her Twitter account to occasionally comment about the murder case.

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