The calls to and from Trayvon Martin's phone show: (note that I’ve rounded off some numbers where the exact moment doesn’t seem critical to any analysis):

(Corrected, See MJW in comments below:) Martin called Rachel at 5:09 pm and they spoke for 80 minutes, ending at 6:29 pm. They disconnected, he called her back at 6:30 and they spoke for 13 minutes, until around 6:43 pm. He also got two calls from a Miami number that went to voice-mail around 6:18-6:19 pm.

Martin entered the 7-11 store around 6:24, exited after his purchase at 6:26, but didn't leave the area and begin walking back to RATL or elsewhere until 6:29.

At 6:41 Rachel calls him and they talk for 3 plus minutes. He calls her back around 6:45 and they talk for 4 minutes 17 seconds, which would be 6:50 or so. But at 6:46, he calls a Miami number, 305-770- 0893 0890 for 1 minute. (Added: The last digit is a 0 not a 3. This number appears to be associated with a member of Rachel's family.)

At 6:50, he calls Rachel for 3.75 minutes. At 6:53, he calls Rachel for 8 seconds (perhaps it went to her voice-mail?) He calls her again at 6:54, but the call lasts only 33 seconds.

Rachel calls Martin back at 6:54, and they talk for almost 18 minutes, to almost 7:12 pm. (Zimmerman’s call to non-emergency began at 7:09:34, but his phone records show he made the call at 7:08. Was he on hold for a minute and a half? Twice he referred to “trying to get through” in his statements to Det. Singleton and Serino.

In between, Chad calls at 7:04 and talks to Martin for 17 seconds. According to Chad's interview with police, Trayvon told him it was raining and he was on his way home. So it seems Martin had call-waiting and put Rachel on hold while he talked to Chad.

Added: Thanks to Diwataman for the shorter version:

5:09-6:30 Outgoing to Rachel
6:30-6:41 Outgoing to Rachel
6:41-6:44 Incoming from Rachel
6:45-6:49 Outgoing to Rachel
6:46-6:48 Outgoing to 305-770-0890
6:49-6:53 Incoming from Rachel
6:53-6:54 Outgoing to Rachel
6:54-6:54 Outgoing to Rachel
6:54-7:11 Incoming from Rachel
7:04 Incoming from Chad

Rachel calls back at 7:12:06 pm, and the call ends 218 seconds later (3 min. 38 seconds) or at 7:15:44. Witness 11,the first 911 caller, got through at 7:16:11. The gunshot was around 7:16:53. So there was about one minute in between the time Martin's phone disconnected and the gunshot.

According to the event reports(here and here) from the Seminole County Communications Center, George Zimmerman connected with the non-emergency number at 7:09:34. The FBI's version of the transcript says the call lasted 4 minutes and 10 seconds, but the last few seconds were dead time, which means that Zimmerman didn't hang up with non-emergency until 7:13:40. Thus, there was just over 2 minutes in between the time Zimmerman hung up with non-emergency and the time Rachel and Martin's final call ended. (We don’t know is how many seconds elapsed between when Rachel says Trayvon’s headset fell off and the end of the call.)

I will leave it to others to do the math and see whether Rachel’s account holds up.

Other aspects of the call log are more interesting to me. Since this is the week the state will introduce GZ’s statements and claim the variations in them amount not only to differences but intentional lies, I think the call logs show the state would be wise to remember that what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Memory is a tricky phenomenon. The phone records show that Tracy Martin, Chad Joseph and Brandy Greene all have fallible memories. Are they lying? Or just mistaken? I’ll give them all the benefit of the doubt, but submit that the same benefit should be applied to variations in Zimmerman’s statements.

First up: Brandy Greene’s 14 year old son Chad Joseph, (now 15.) Chad talked to Martin at 7:04 pm and was told it was raining and he was on his way home. Chad told investigators on 4/27/12 that he didn’t hear any commotion or shooting because his bedroom was in the front of the house and he was playing games with his headset on. (Page 39 of the 284 page Second Supplemental Discovery.) But look at the phone records: Chad called Martin's phone 9 times beginning 5 minutes after the shooting. Each call went to voice-mail. The times are:

• 7:22:40
• 7:46:24
• 8:36 and again at 8:37
• 8:45
• 10:03
• 10:23
• 11:42
• 12:23 am

In addition, if you watch the Fox news video of the cops arriving that night, you will see that many of the police approached on the Retreat View Circle side and parked on that side. The entrance to that side of the complex is right by the front of his house. Chad may not have been able to see the backyard where the body was, but it's hard to imagine he didn't see the flashing lights right by the front or to the left of his house. If he didn't take his headphones off during his multiple calls to Trayvon,how would he have known if Trayvon answered? And if he did take them off, how did he not hear the sirens or see the flashing lights on the street in front of his house?

Chad also said he went to an NBA football event with Trayvon on Friday night, the night before his own football game, which Trayvon and cousin Stephen attended. He said after the Saturday night game, he left with Trayvon and Stephen and they went back to his house. Stephen slept in the garage, Trayvon slept in the living room. On Sunday morning, he said Stephen left. He said he and Trayvon were watching the NBA game later on Sunday when Trayvon decided to go to the store. When Trayvon didn’t return, he said he waited up until his mother got home before going to bed.

Now look at what Tracy Martin and Brandy Greene told investigators on 3/26/12, 3/27 and 4/2/12. (The 284 page Second Supplemental Discovery. Unredacted versions are in the 30 page 5th Supplemental Discovery.)

On 3/26/12, Tracy Martin was interviewed together with Sybrina Fulton at her residence. Tracy told investigators he had a convention to go to in Orlando on Friday. On Wednesday, he said he dropped Trayvon off with Brandy, whom they had met halfway between Miami and Sanford. On Friday, he got to Orlando and Trayvon stayed with him that night. Trayvon’s cousin Stephen was in also in town, and he and Brandy’s son Chad and Trayvon spent time together. On Sunday, he said they were back at Brandy’s apartment and later, he and Brandy went out to dinner. When they returned, and Chad was alone and said Trayvon had gone to the store and not returned.

Tracy said he called tried to call Trayvon’s phone several times and got voice-mail. Look at the phone records. The only call from Tracy’s phone, 954-410-55*2, is at 12:49 a.m.

Now look at Brandy Greene’s interview the next day, on 3/27/12 (Page 32 of 284 page Second Supplemental Discovery with an unredacted version in the 5th Supplemental Discovery.) Brandy says they all stayed in Orlando at Tracy’s hotel Friday night, and hung out at the hotel during the day Saturday. Chad had a football game Saturday night which his coach drove him to. Brandy, Tracy and Trayvon went to the game, and cousin Stephen met them there. After the game, Tracy gave Trayvon $75 to $100 for the movies and dinner. They didn’t go to the movies, and instead, all three went back to Brandy’s house and spent the night.

Brandy says she and Tracy went back to the hotel after the game Saturday night and spent the night. They arrived home Sunday morning and all three boys were sleeping. Later, Brandy and Tracy went out to eat. She says they got home around 10:30 pm and only Chad was home. They asked where Trayvon was and Chad said he went to the store to get Skittles and never returned. Brandy said Tracy called Trayvon’s cell phone several times but it went to voicemail. Brandy and Tracy went to bed. Around 7:00 am, Brandy told Tracy that Trayvon still hadn’t come home. She said Tracy tried to call Trayvon’s phone but “the calls” went to voice-mail. He then called Stephen who did not know where Trayvon was, and then called the police. According to the Event Reports, Tracy called around 8:45 a.m. on Monday morning, Feb. 27.

Next is Tracy Martin's interview on 4/2 (p 40 of 284 page discovery), which although conducted at Sybrina Fulton’s home, was not a joint interview. He says he dropped Trayvon off with Brandy on Tuesday, not Wednesday, as he told them previously. He again says Brandy met them half-way between Miami and Sanford. Trayvon stayed with her Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday, Trayvon stayed with him at his hotel. He said the last time he saw Trayvon was Saturday night after Chad’s football game. Cousin Stephen met them at the game and the three kids left together. Tracy gave Trayvon $75 to $100 for movies/dinner.

Tracy says he got back to Brandy’s Sunday night between 10:30 to 11 pm. (He doesn’t mention returning in the morning or during the day, or having seen Trayvon asleep, as Brandy said.) Chad was alone. Tracy called Trayvon’s cell phone (no reference to multiple calls) and got voice-mail. After getting no response, he went to bed. The next morning Brandy told him Trayvon was not there. After calling Stephen, who hadn't seen him, he called the police.

If Tracy and and Brandy had come home on Sunday morning, or anytime during the day on Sunday, and not gone out until dinner time, they would have known Trayvon went to the store before they left, and not had to ask Chad where Trayvon went when they got home. Chad says he stayed up until they got home, which they put at 10:30 to 11:00, but Chad continued to call Trayvon’s phone until 12:23 a.m. Tracy didn’t call Trayvon’s phone until 12:49 am. It sure sounds like Tracy and Brandi didn’t return home until after Chad’s last call, and Tracy made only one call, not several, at 12:49 a.m.

No one has perfect recall after a traumatic event – except maybe someone who has planned out and memorized details. I don’t think the variations in Tracy Martin, Brandy Greene, and Chad Joseph’s accounts affect their overall version of pertinent events any more than the variations in George Zimmerman’s statements as to the order of events, or his recalling statements of the dispatcher through the lens of what he understood the dispatcher to mean rather than by the dispatcher’s exact words, affect the consistency of his version of events. They are variations, not differences. They shouldn’t impact Zimmerman’s credibility. They certainly don’t support an inference Zimmerman intentionally lied.

The only person whose recall seems suspect to me is Ms. Rachel Jeantel. She may not read cursive, but she sure has a knack for memorizing details, from the dates of her depositions, to the chronology of her dropped calls with Trayvon, to the words she used at trial to describe what Trayvon said and when he said it, to her use of the same phrases she used in her 4/2 interview with the prosecutor, like "kinda heard a little" to describe the “get off” she heard after the headset fell. While at trial Rachel said she had not listened to the entirety of her interview with Crump or the prosecutor before testifying, she had listened to some. Her story is so pat it seems suspect to me.

This young woman is far from stupid. She does not strike me as mentally challenged in the slightest. As I wrote when watching her testimony, I thought she came across as petulant, belligerent, and manipulative, with an air of self-entitlement. I think her performance was her way of asserting control over the situation. She certainly doesn’t want to help Zimmerman, but she’s angry as hell at Team Crump for not telling her the media would be present and recording her interview or that Crump would be releasing her tape the entire country at a news conference. She doesn’t want to cause Trayvon’s mother pain. But her needs still come first, from viewing her time as more valuable than others (her annoyance that she had to wait for her deposition to be rescheduled while Trayvon’s brother didn’t, and both depos took 4 hours), to resorting to lies to avoid unpleasant situations such as those that involve dead bodies or crying mothers, to pretending to be a juvenile to enhance her personal privacy.

The one instance she tripped up was one she couldn’t have seen coming. She didn’t realize that she first told Crump that George Zimmerman responded to Trayon confronting him with “What are you talking about” instead of “What are you doing around here?” Why? Because it wasn’t on Crump’s recording – it was only on Matt Gutman’s recording, which only recently came to light, and Rachel doesn’t watch the news. She prepared from the tape or transcript that Crump supplied the state, which was missing that portion, and from her earlier interview with the state, which also only contained the version, “What are you following me for?” That may be why she was so adamant with West that she never said it. She was confident because It wasn’t in the scripts she had used to prepare for trial. Only when West finally presented her with the proof from her deposition transcript, did she cave in. She was outfoxed and she knew it.

There is a big difference in the two versions as I’ve pointed out before, one that Crump noticed and then asked her repeat using only the second version. “What are you talking about?” seems like an attempt to de-escalate the situation. It’s not confrontational in the slightest. “What are you doing around here?” is much better suited to the Crump/state version.

My point is, Rachel Jenteal told essentially the same story three times or more (we haven’t seen her depositions) while Zimmerman, Tracy Martin, Brandy Green, and Chad Joseph and just about ever other witness have all had variations. The one that seems the most suspect is Jeantel's, because it is so pat. No one retells an event exactly the same way every time and with such confidence – except someone who has practiced and memorized it.