Amidst the aftermath of the dramatic courtroom conclusion which saw the jury in the George Zimmerman trial return a "not guilty" verdict, on Monday evening Piers Morgan invited Rachel Jeantel to join him in studio for a face to face conversation. 
 
 With a live audience hanging on every word, Jeantel listened intently as the "Piers Morgan Live" host rolled a video clip from earlier in the evening, in which CNN's Anderson Cooper conducted his own exclusive interviewwith the juror known simply as B37: 
 
 "I think she felt inadequate toward everyone because of her education and her communication skills," said the juror, speaking about Jeantel. "I just felt sadness for her." 
 
 Admitting to feeling "angry" and "upset" after hearing herself described that way, Morgan's guest defended her character: 
 
 "When the state closed they're trying to explain what kind of person I am. And you can see the kind of person I am," she explained. "Out of the whole stand I never cussed out Don [West]. Even during our little back - since March." 
 
 Having seen her courtroom nemesis, the man who aggressively cross-examined her doing the trial, in the CNN hallway earlier in the evening, Jeantel took the high road: 
 
 "I'll hold it back. The only reason I have not said anything to Don Weston [sic] because my parents taught me better. As an adult you don't have the right to disrespect an adult," she explained. "Don't curse - okay I did give attitude." 
 
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 The friend who was on the phone with Trayvon Martin when his fatal confrontation with George Zimmerman began said Monday she is "disappointed, upset, angry, questioning and mad" at Zimmerman's acquittal on murder charges. 
 
 Rachel Jeantel called the verdict "BS" and said Martin, 17, was never aggressive. 
 
 "He was a calm, chill, loving person who loved his family, definitely his mother, and a good friend," Jeantel told CNN's "Piers Morgan Live." 
 
 Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Florida, was acquitted Saturday of second-degree murder charges in Martin's death. The killing sparked protests when police declined to bring charges against Zimmerman, leading to the appointment of a special prosecutor who eventually took the case to court. 
 
 Prosecutors had argued that Zimmerman, who is Hispanic, had profiled and pursued the African-American teen. 
 
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 As the last person to speak to Martin, Jeantel was one of the prosecution's key witnesses. On the witness stand, she described how Martin told her over the phone that some "creepy-ass cracker" was following him and how he turned toward Zimmerman and asked, "Why are you following me for?" 
 
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 Zimmerman had called police to report Martin as a suspicious person in his neighborhood. The unarmed Martin was wearing a hooded sweatshirt and was staying with his father at the nearby home of his father's girlfriend. 
 
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 Jeantel dismissed arguments that the case had no racial dimension. 
 
 "It was racial. Let's be honest, racial. If Trayvon was white and he had a hoodie on, would that happen?" she asked. 
 
 Zimmerman told detectives Martin began pummeling him when he approached him, against the advice of a police dispatcher, and that he had to shoot to save his own life. He didn't testify during the trial, however -- and Jeantel said his defense was "acting like a punk" by attempting to paint Martin as a mortal threat. 
 
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 "If you were a real man you would have stand on that stage and tell what happened," she said, calling Zimmerman "weak" and "scary." 
 
 Zimmerman's lawyers successfully argued for the right to present evidence that Martin had marijuana traces in his system, but never brought that before a jury or presented any testimony about whether the drug could have affected Martin's behavior. 
 
 Jeantel acknowledged that Martin smoked marijuana, but added, "Weed don't make him go crazy, it just makes him go hungry." 
 
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 The 19-year-old found herself in the unforgiving spotlight of a nationally televised trial, in which viewers criticized her for her dress, her weight and her speech and her combative manner on the stand. She admitted to lying about her age and her reasons for skipping Martin's funeral. 
 
 She later explained she is of Haitian descent and grew up speaking Spanish and Creole, and she said Monday that her speech was also affected by an underbite that will require surgery to correct. 
 
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 A juror who spoke to CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" on Monday said she had difficulty understanding Jeantel and didn't consider her a credible witness, "but I felt very sorry for her." 
 
 "She didn't ask to be in this place ... She wanted to go. She wanted to leave. She didn't want to be any part of this jury. I think she felt inadequate toward everyone because of her education and her communications skills. I just felt sadness for her." 
 
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 SANFORD — From the witness stand Wednesday, the state's star witness in the George Zimmerman murder trial, Rachel "Diamond" Jeantel, gave her account of Trayvon Martin's last seconds — and they were dramatic. 
 
 While on the phone with Trayvon, he told her a man was following him, someone he described as a "creepy-ass cracker," Jeantel said. He got close enough to Trayvon that she could hear the man say, "'What are you doing around here?'" 
 
 Jeantel then heard a "bump," followed by something she described as "grass sound." Trayvon said, "Get off. Get off," then the phone went dead, she testified. 
 
 Jeantel's account, though, was nearly lost amid the problems and spectacle she created. She used street slang, was sometimes defiant and talked so fast and so softly that it was often impossible to make out her words. 
 
 The court reporter interrupted her a dozen times, asking her to repeat herself. Jurors interrupted, too, although not as often, and stopped when Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson told them, "You can't ask questions. If you can't understand, just raise your hand." 
 
 They did. 
 
 Defense attorney Don West had problems, too, and kept objecting when Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda began paraphrasing her answers in an attempt to be helpful. 
 
 Jeantel, the most anticipated witness of the trial, spent 21/2 fascinating, frustrating hours on the witness stand and is to return at 9 a.m. Thursday for more, when West is scheduled to continue his cross-examination. 
 
 When West told the judge he expects that to last about two more hours, Jeantel blurted out, "What?" 
 
 Her most important job is done: telling jurors what she heard in Trayvon's final seconds of life. But she still has some explaining to do, and prosecutors will likely try to fix her reputation. 
 
 She admitted Wednesday to two lies. She told Trayvon's mother, Sybrina Fulton, and family attorney Benjamin Crump shortly after the shooting that she was 16 when she really was 18. She wanted Fulton to think she was a minor, just as Trayvon was, she said. 
 
 And she said she lied, again to Fulton and Crump, when she said she had missed Trayvon's wake because she was in a hospital. 
 
 She made that up, she said, because she did not want to see his body. 
 
 She did not find out until two days after the shooting that Trayvon had died, she said. She also said that when the phone went dead, she thought Trayvon had gotten into a fight and that his father had likely come to his rescue. 
 
 Zimmerman, a 29-year-old former Neighborhood Watch volunteer, is accused of profiling, following, confronting and murdering Trayvon, who was 17 and unarmed. 
 
 Zimmerman says he acted in self-defense after the Miami Gardens teenager attacked him Feb. 26, 2012, in a gated Sanford townhome community. He is charged with second-degree murder. 
 
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 Jeantel's testimony capped a rocky day for prosecutors. 
 
 Early in the day, they called two neighbor eyewitnesses who heard and saw part of the confrontation between Trayvon and Zimmerman the night of the shooting. 
 
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 One of George Zimmerman’s most outspoken supporters has apparently changed his story. 
 
 Frank Taaffe testified Wednesday before a grand jury that Zimmerman may have called him and made racially charged comments in a phone call shortly after he shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in February 2012. 
 
 He told the grand jury that he received a call from an unknown number two years ago from a man who made racist comments about Martin. 
 
 At the time, he thought it was a prank call and disregarded the comments, but now he suspects the call may have come from his neighbor and friend, Zimmerman. 
 
 A federal grand jury is hearing evidence in the case to decide whether Zimmerman – who was acquitted of murder charges in the case – will face federal charges for violating the unarmed teen’s civil rights. 
 
 Taaffe defended Zimmerman on national TV shortly after the fatal shooting, saying his friend was not a racist. 
 
 He said he has received death threats for his defense of Zimmerman. 
 
 Taaffe did not testify during Zimmerman’s previous trial. 
 
 But he decided to tell the FBI about the call earlier this year after both of his sons died recently, which allowed him to identify more strongly with Martin’s family. 
 
 Taaffe told investigators that he now believes Zimmerman targeted the teen due to his race. 
 
 “In my heart of hearts, I do believe that,” Taaffe said. 
 
 He said Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, should never have followed the teen he suspected of criminal wrongdoing. 
 
 “If there’s a young man that’s not doing anything but talking on the phone, in the rain, sauntering about, let it go,” Taaffe said. “You know, that’s why we have law enforcement — let them handle it.” 
 
 However, he cannot say for certain whether his friend made the remarks in the call. 
 
 “People knew my phone number so it could have been anybody,” Taaffe said. “I brought it up and they wanted me to go on the record with what this alleged George said with this phone call from unknown destination.” 
 
 Taaffe told reporters Wednesday that he hoped his grand jury testimony would “make amends” with the Martin family. 
 
 He said his support for Zimmerman had caused his daughter, a U.S. Marine, to be ostracized – which had damaged their relationship. 
 
 “I miss her and I love her,” Taaffe said. “She’s my only child I’ve got left.” 
 
 Watch this video report posted online by WFTV-TV:
– Trayvon Martin's friend Rachel Jeantel, the last person to speak with the teen and the witness who testified that she heard Trayvon yell at George Zimmerman to "get off," has one word for the not-guilty verdict: "BS." She tells CNN she's "disappointed, upset, angry, questioning, and mad" about the acquittal, and she says the case revolved around race: "Let's be honest ... it was racial," she told Piers Morgan last night. "If Trayvon was white and he had a hoodie on, would that happen?" She called Zimmerman "weak," saying he's not a "real man" since he didn't testify. As for his defense team, it acted "like a punk" by trying to paint Trayvon as the threat, she said. Juror B37 was also on CNN last night, and she told Anderson Cooper she didn't find Jeantel's testimony "very credible," but said she "felt very sorry for her. ... I think she felt inadequate toward everyone because of her education and her communication skills." Jeantel told Morgan that made her "angry" and "upset." As for Don West, who aggressively cross-examined her, Jeantel pointed out that she "never cussed out" the defense attorney. "The only reason I have not said nothing to Don Weston [sic] 'cause my parents taught me better. That's an adult; you don't have the right to disrespect an adult."