Suborned perjury this late in the game? Say it ain't so.

Good grief. From Time to Expose the Fraud That Launched BLM by Jack Cashill. Could this be true?

Background - The Trayvon Martin Case, and George Zimmerman. The trial was one of a string at that time where District Attorney's appeared to bring cases because of political considerations (see Duke Lacrosse case) rather than based on evidence. The Zimmerman case, while tragic, followed in that pattern. Martin was killed and Zimmerman's life has been permanently marked (including an assassination attempt). However, based on Federal, State and Local investigations and trials, Zimmerman was innocent of the mob accusations.

The Trayvon Martin case also provided background and context for the violence which erupted in Ferguson, another case where the mainstream media's representation of the case was dramatically at odds with the facts and with the results of several Federal, State, and Local investigations and judgments.

From Cashill's article.

Zimmerman should never have been charged with murder, let alone tried. The fact that he was arrested can be attributed to a stunningly blatant fraud orchestrated by the attorney who has been prominently milking the racial divide he helped create, Benjamin Crump.

As it happens, the one person capable of exposing this fraud is George Zimmerman. All Zimmerman needs is his own Atticus Finch, an attorney brave enough to resist the howling mob and stand up for the truth.

In the way of background, Zimmerman has filed a suit in the Circuit Court of Florida's Tenth Judicial Circuit. The evidence is overwhelming that Trayvon Martin's support team, including Martin's parents and their attorney, Benjamin Crump, knowingly substituted an imposter witness for the real "phone witness" in order to secure Zimmerman's arrest for the 2012 shooting death of Martin.

Also named in the suit are the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE); the State of Florida; former state attorneys Bernie de la Rionda, John Guy, and Angela Corey, and HarperCollins, the publisher of Crump's defamatory book, Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People.

In a 2012 deposition, the perjured testimony of the imposter in question, Rachel Jeantel, enabled the State of Florida to arrest Zimmerman and take him to trial. Evidence strongly suggests that state attorneys knew that the witness was a fraud.

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The defendants effectively ruined Zimmerman's life on April 2, 2012, five weeks after the shooting. On that fateful day, de la Rionda flew to Miami from Jacksonville to depose Brittany "Diamond" Eugene, the girl who was on the phone with Trayvon up to the moment of his death.

Trayvon's mother, Sybrina Fulton, had met with the real Diamond Eugene at least once before in mid-March. Crump may have met with her as well. He certainly coached her to follow his fraudulent script of a raging Zimmerman stalking and killing the scared little boy Trayvon Martin. His phone interview with Diamond was recorded by ABC's Matt Gutman and broadcast.

On April 2, when Fulton drove with de la Rionda to Diamond's home, they were redirected to another address. "I knocked on the door and asked for Diamond," Fulton said in a 2013 deposition. According to the lawsuit, "[r]ather than Defendant Eugene coming to the door, Defendant Jeantel appeared and claimed that she was 'Diamond Eugene.'"

In The Trayvon Hoax, Gilbert did a brilliant job identifying and locating the real Diamond Eugene, a then-16-year-old Haitian-American hottie who stole Trayvon's heart.

State attorneys had full access to the steamy text exchanges between Diamond and Trayvon, many of which had photos attached. Reads the suit, "Defendant Eugene could in no way be mistaken for Defendant Jeantel, who was 2 years older, 5 inches taller, and about 120 pounds heavier than Defendant Eugene." While we are on the subject of height, little Trayvon was about half a foot taller than Zimmerman.

There is overwhelming evidence that Crump orchestrated the witness switch when the real Diamond refused to lie under oath. Someone then recruited Diamond's mentally challenged half-sister, Jeantel, to pretend to be Diamond.

Of all those being sued, it is only Sybrina Fulton who provably knew that Jeantel was an imposter. Fulton is running for commissioner in Miami-Dade County with Hillary Clinton's open support.

Good grief. As if this tragic case were not already so completely beset by bad actors, bad motives, and financial exploitation.

I recall Rachel Jeantel's testimony. It was not in itself determinative in any way. However, her inarticulateness, her rudeness, her apparent arrogance suddenly drove a whole different national conversation. How could there be a nineteen year old high school senior who had so little command of the English language?

What I most remember was something to do with a letter she had supposedly written which she was then asked on the stand to read and she had to confess that she could not because she could not read cursive. For a star witness for the prosecution, that seemed to me a highly significant fact. Was she lying? Possibly. But it never crossed my mind that she might not actually be the person claimed on the call.

Is this a muckraking article or is this a real case of suborning false testimony? Might the whole national trauma of watching a falsely accused defendant been avoided? Might Ferguson have been avoided had not the mainstream media not made false representations of both the Trayvon Martin case and the Michael Brown case? On the latter two we might never know.

I guess, since there is a case winding its way through the system, we might eventually know whether the State (or some other bad actor) deliberately suborned perjury in order to bolster the rationale for bringing the case in the first place. All this was eight years ago. How could this basic question still be unresolved? And if it turns out to be true that there was suborned perjury, what happens next? A lot of senior state employees would need to be held accountable.

But it is more than time that we stop bringing ill-founded cases based on mob anger. It has to stop somewhere. But it will continue until both state employees are held accountable for bad actions as well as defense attorneys who orchestrate lucrative but false cases.