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From The Smoking Gun:

Twitter Account Gets Scrubbed In Zimmerman Case
In a late-night scrubbing spree, dozens of embarrassing and incriminating posts were deleted Tuesday evening from the Twitter account of a Florida woman who has been described as a star government witness in the George Zimmerman murder case, The Smoking Gun has learned.

The sanitizing of Rachel Jeantel's Twitter account came as the 19-year-old Miami resident prepared to take the stand and testify about a phone call she had with Trayvon Martin immediately before the unarmed 17-year-old was shot to death by Zimmerman in February 2012.
I thought tampering with evidence was a Federal crime. More:

As TSG reported yesterday, Jeantel, pictured above, maintains a Twitter account (@MsRachel_94) to which she has made more than 200 posts over the past five months. Many of the teenager's tweets referred to drinking, smoking, and getting high. She also made references to Martin's death, referred to acquaintances as "bitch" and "nigga", and wrote about having "jackass lawyers on my ass."

Yesterday afternoon, after TSG sought to contact several of Jeantel"s Twitter followers and Facebook friends, 14 tweets -- and 13 linked Twitpic photos -- were deleted from her Twitter account (which carries the personal motto "My Character And Action Describe Who I Am"). The removed tweets included references to drinking and a link to a sexually suggestive set of photos. Another killed tweet, from June 23, read "Court nails" and linked to a photo of fingernails (presumably Jeantel's) with fresh orange polish. Additionally, several Twitpic images of assorted liquor bottles were deleted.

The scrubbing of Jeantel's Twitter account, however, did not end there.

After 10 PM (Eastern) last night, 43 other tweets were deleted. The postings disappeared about two hours after TSG published a story about Jeantel's social media musings. A TSG comparison of Jeantel's sanitized Twitter account with the version from early Tuesday afternoon showed that the number of published tweets plummeted from 202 to 146.

A compilation of the 43 deleted Jeantel tweets can be found on pages beginning here. The 14 tweets deleted yesterday afternoon can be found here.

The material deleted last evening included nearly all remaining references to the underage Jeantel's partying, including tweets like "When u drinking & smoking u need good music in ur ears hahaha I feel so good on Sunday" and "I need a drink to sleep dis off fuck dis shit boi."
I wonder if there is any possibility of a class action lawsuit against the Florida Public School teachers -- this is not an educated person by any stretch of the imagination...

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