Mock Trial

Epic · Post by **Epic** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:57 pm

Has anyone ever done mock trial before?

Or maybe you know someone that has done it. Was it hard? Fun?

I just went to the informationaly meeting at my school today and try outs are in two weeks and I want to do it! :D

Hope · Post by **Hope** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:05 pm

we did a mock trial in my 11th grade english class on Ceasar... it was semi fun and semi not... one of the guys in my class ended up wearing a bright red suit and rapping... that made it interesting

Lord Sesshoumaru · Post by **Lord Sesshoumaru** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:41 pm

I find them to be pretty entertaining

KristopherWindsor · Post by **KristopherWindsor** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:44 pm

Here ye, here ye!
The court will now come to order.
Prosecutor KristopherWindsor of case #76607 has brought epic123 to the stand to stand trial for mocking the judicial system...

Sherlock · Post by **Sherlock** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:45 pm

I did participate in a few in high school, one in college and then about 500 subsequently in law school and (hopefully) I shall be participating in one soon for real but thankfully not as a plaintiff or defendant.

Regardless, they are a good opportunity if you enjoy public speaking or the opportunity to argue a case or play the part of witness.

Clodius Albinus · Post by **Clodius Albinus** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:38 pm

My only experience with mock trials has been in the realm of constitutional law, so, thankfully, no mock witnesses were involved.

Hope: you may have debated something related to the Shakespearean play, but I doubt your class held a mock trial on it, especially given your description of the event.

The Top Crusader · Post by **The Top Crusader** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 7:50 am

We had to in my World War II History class in college... it was fun, but we were assigned a topic by our professor and put into groups, but then the individual groups had to split in two for each side to have their case... so in our group we had 4 people who favored the atomic bomb usage on Japan, and 2 weirdo liberal hippies who were against it... but I had to be on the liberal hippie team and defend their evil views!

The sad thing was I ended up doing all the work and presenting our case... one of the people did nothing, and the other one tried to "Pull on the heartstrings" of the jury without using any facts or research. $\:D/$

We lost the case... which is fine because I didn't believe in our side's view anyway. But I got a good grade and my two partners didn't. $\:D/$

PJ · Post by PJ » Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:16 am

I've done it twice. One time I was a witness. The other time I was the defense attorney. It was quite fun. I kept objecting what the prosecutor was asking. He was annoyed, but every one of my objections were sustained. Bwhahaha! $\:D/$

Epic · Post by **Epic** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 5:07 pm

Yeah ours is pretty serious. We compete with other schools around our state and there's Regionals, States and something I can't remember!

JED · Post by **JED** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 5:10 pm

Yes I have. I have actually done real court cases for the city I live in. I worked as an attorney.

The other was for school I LOVED IT.

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