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HAMPDEN - Elena Cravens of Winterport delivered her opening statement with confidence last week before an imaginary judge and jury in a Hampden Academy classroom. The 17-year-old senior has been on the school's winning mock trial team since her freshman year. She was on the team last December when Hampden Academy won its seventh consecutive victory and its ninth in the last decade.
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... ineffective assistance of counsel because trial counsel failed to call alibi witnesses at trial de... he gave defense counsel an audiotaped statement in which he denied involvement with the fire and s... the wives to testify to the alibi during a mock trial, and prepared other witnesses as well, inclu...In his opening statement to the jury, Conger promised to provide ...
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While engaging in learning about rules of evidence, rules of procedure and case law, undergraduate mock trial students must also learn how to effectively communicate their evidence to the fact-finder. In mock trial, as in real courtroom trials in the United States legal system, communication skills and the ability to persuade are essential. This work examines how the art of rhetoric relates to mock trial debate. By applying Aristotle's proofs of logos, pathos and ethos, this article unveils how management of logic, emotional appeal and speaker credibility weigh heavily on the persuasion process in mock trial. It illustrates how poignant Aristotle's proofs are in contemporary undergraduate competition.
... with a packet of evidence, witness statements and rules on courtroom and competition procedure. ... fact-finder the logic of the case: in the opening statements, during witness testimony and in closin...
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Civil trial attorneys today increasingly turn to an empirically-based approach to jury selection as opposed to intuiting or speculating about a juror's personal biases and attitudes. This article explores the sometimes fine line between efficacy and the ethical concerns raised by the use of jury science. Social scientists have labeled jury science "high-tech jury tampering." If the outcome of a trial can be manipulated by simply employing consultants who choose jurors of a certain predisposition, the jury trial could cease to function impartially. On one hand, jury science assumes that jurors are incapable of drawing conclusions based upon evidence that they process at trial. On the other hand, jury science preserves impartiality by ensuring that hidden biases and prejudices are exposed...
... is that use of trial consultants and mock trials can yield successful results. Although tria... trials, focus groups, jury selection, opening statement consultation, community attitude surveys...
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Casey Campbell should go to prison for planting a bomb at her high school and trying to kill a rival student there, state prosecutors told a judge on Thursday. Campbell's defense lawyers said she was framed by her rival, Sawyer Simpson.
... schools are provided with witness statements and some other basic case materials in the fictiti...It's up to the teams to craft compelling opening statements, direct and cross examinations, and clo...
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This monograph is a case study of newspaper competition in New Hampshire between the province's official newspaper and an upstart Whig challenger in the period marked by contention over the Stamp Act (1765-1766) and over the tight oligarchical reign of the Wentworth family. The case study is grounded in the civic republican tradition articulated by Bernard Bailyn and Gordon Wood as well as the revisionist scholarship since the 1960s that takes the role of the "little people" seriously. It maintains that the competition between the two newspapers contributed to, and opened up, the public spaces in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to a wider compass than might have been predicted if one follows the standard Habermasian argument for the develop of a bourgeois public sphere. In part, these more d...
...:1992, 427) himself confesses to an eye-opening reappraisal of the "inner dynamics of a plebeian c... the ritual of the street as an instrument to mock authority, to heap disgrace on violators of commun...." Erudite and decorous, Fowle's mission statement was consistent with contemporary press practices o... to try customs violations without jury trials and the colonists condemned this extension as a vi...
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... ineffective assistance of counsel because trial counsel failed to call alibi witnesses at trial de... he gave defense counsel an audiotaped statement in which he denied involvement with the fire and s... the wives to testify to the alibi during a mock trial, and prepared other witnesses as well, inclu...In his opening statement to the jury, Conger promised to provide ...
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The trial court did not err in refusing to provide the jury an instruction on accomplice testimony where the purported accomplice was neither indicted nor found guilty as a result of alleged participation in the crimes at issue.
...:. (C.P.C. No. 08CR-11-2826) . David A. Mock, :. (REGULAR CALENDAR) . Defendant-Appellant. :. D...Before providing his final statement to police, Victor signed a Miranda waiver even tho... asserts the prosecution (1) used the opening statement to improperly and repeatedly discuss mat...
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Ridgefield and Camas High School students square off Thursday in the district mock trial tournament at the Clark County Courthouse. Ridgefields team played the prosecution and Camas team was the defense in a fictitious case of an officer facing a murder charge. Top: Ridgefield High School student Emily Barton plays the role of witness Dr. Jamie Kildare. ---
...In his opening statement, Ridgefield freshman Andrew Rath said th...
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... influence claim"); (2) that Wolfe's trial counsel was ineffective in moving to strike a qual... 6 Wolfe interpreted Martin's statement that "I know what you guys did" as meaning that Ma...One such venireman, Robert Mock, initially indicated that he could not. The prosec... and explained the meaning of the opening clause of § 2254(e)(2). . See 529 U.S. 420, 431 (...
