Benjamin Crump is being deposed today -actually, right now- With that in mind here are two videos that everyone may enjoy watching and refreshing. It would appear the loss of the JOA was final decision making aspect which pushed O’Mara into actually doing the deposition.
The first one should be labeled ….”the plan was”:
The second is the conversation with, (the hiding in the closet excuse to cover-up different sounding voice), “DeeDee” who may, or may not, be Rachel Jeantel (W8)
Trayvon Martin family attorney, Benjamin Crump, is both an attorney for the Martin family, and simultaneously an identified, albeit unlisted, material witness in the case against George Zimmerman.
Crump is a material witness because of his specific and intentional engagement of Witness #8, Dee Dee, and her subsequent presentation to the State of Florida.
Benjamin Crump has also been assigned special status, as co-counsel of sorts, for the prosecution, by Florida Judge Nelson when she ruled he was not subject to deposition by the defense.
Subornation of Perjury – In American law and in Scots law the subornation of perjury is the crime of persuading a person to commit perjury — the swearing of a false oath to tell the truth in a legal proceeding, be it spoken or written. The term subornation of perjury further describes the circumstance wherein an attorney at law causes a client to lie, or allows another party to lie, under oath.
In legal practice, the condition of suborning perjury applies to a lawyer who presents either testimony or an affidavit, or both, either to a judge or to a jury, which the attorney knows to be materially false, and not factual.
In civil law and in criminal law, the attorney’s knowledge that the testimony is materially false must rise above mere suspicion to what an attorney would reasonably have believed in the circumstances of the matter discussed in the testimony. Hence, the attorney cannot be wilfully blind to the fact that his or her witness is giving false, perjurious testimony.
Moreover, an attorney who actively encourages a witness to give false testimony is suborning perjury, which is a crime punished either with formal disciplinary action, disbarment, or jail, or a combination thereof.
Likewise, a false statement by an attorney in court also is a crime similar to subornation of perjury, and is punished accordingly. Hence, in the professional conduct of an attorney at law, there is a fine delineation between assisting a witness to recall occurred events and encouraging him or her to give materially false testimony.
The practice of ″horse shedding the witness″ (rehearsing testimony) is an example of such perjurious criminal conduct by an attorney.
Benjamin Crump has provided the court with an affidavit affirming the recording he gave to the Zimmerman defense team was the full original copy of the audio recordings he made. He did so in a successful attempt to avoid deposition.
However, there was another recording device in the room simultaneously recording his activity. That recording device was the ABC news team who were present during Crumps interview with the witness. [*Note – The defense team has requested the full ABC audio – It is unknown if they have possession]
Exhibit “A” – In the ABC audio below you will hear Attorney Benjamin Crump interviewing Witness #8 “Dee Dee”. This audio not only is better quality than the audio Crump provided – but it materially shows the full content of how the conversation was being captured.
Listen to this recently released audio, recorded by ABC’s Matt Gutman, during the March 19th interview with Witness #8:
Now contrast Crump’s actual ABC recorded conversation against the sworn affidavit he filed to avoid deposition by his attorney, Bruce Blackwell:
Page # 11 and #12 (paragraph 31 and 32) of Sworn Affidavit.
Not only did Ben Crump misrepresent his action (ie. lied) in his affidavit, he also painstakingly prepped the witness, rehearsed the parts he wanted to record, gave her instructions on what to say (like when to start in 3…2…1), and intentionally cut out his instructions and interjections.
This new recording “excerpt” was uploaded to the ABC website on February 28th. Exactly a week after the Feb 22nd hearing where Judge Nelson ruled -based in part on Crump’s affidavit- he would not be deposed.
A Treeper “Tara” accidentally discovered this audio recording on the ABC website during a search for other information. Why they loaded it without notification or accompanying storyline is unknown.
But what’s factually evident is the ABC recording shows Ben Crump’s affidavit to be false in its content and presentation. Benjamin Crump through his attorney Bruce Blackwell is lying and misrepresenting to the court.
It is plausible to consider that ABC is concerned, based on current legal risk, they may be materially responsible, or at least complicit, for false information provided to the court. This silent release might be their way to put themselves at an arms distance from the initial “exclusive” story. Placing it on their site only after Crump avoided deposition.
This is now the THIRD such lie we have identified from Benjamin Crump himself.
The First Lie was the age of the witness who he claimed to be 16-years-old. When the truth was she was 18 when Ben Crump interviewed her. [She is now 19]
The Second Lie was the witness having missed Trayvon’s funeral due to being hospitalized on Friday March 2nd, and Saturday March 3rd. – After the defense requested medical records to confirm, the State and Crump admitted it was all made up.
Either She, DeeDee, lied to him, or he created the story –which she told to the State of Florida during her sworn statement– of the hospital visit, to create distance from the funeral, as people would obviously know her.
However, this material falsehood, of his impetus, within his sworn affidavit, is the first example of him giving false testimony directly and specifically to the court, and to the judge.
Mark O’Mara and Don West need to present this contradiction to the State, and to Judge Nelson, while requesting the Judge reconsider the decision to shield Crump. Only Benjamin Crump can clear up these contradictions – and he should be held to account for misrepresenting his claims to the State, the defense and the Judge.
But will they?…..