I dont think Trayvon's friend is helping the case much.

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63. I think her reticence is working in the prosecution's favor

Both her reticence, her inexperience, and her naivete.

What's coming across is that she didn't want to be involved in this at all, is afraid of the attention, all of which (to me, at least, if I were a juror) makes her testimony about what was said in the calls more believable. I mean, she said Trayvon referred to the guy watching him as "crazy ass cracker." Now, she didn't have to admit that (nobody knew that), so the candidness about the discussion gives more credence to her claims about the rest of what he said.

The lies she'd told to Trayvon's parents also worked in his favor, to an extent ... because they ring so true to how a teenager in that situation might react. She didn't want to go to the wake and see the body, etc., so she told the parents she had been at the hospital. D'oh. That's exactly what kids do. She let them think she was Trayvon's age (16) instead of 18, because she didn't want to have to be considered an adult or speak to the attorneys or the press. It all sounded very authentic to me.

She's not coming across as a partisan who has an ax to grind, but as a reluctant witness for the prosecution ... which is a great thing for the prosecution to have, imo.