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 Merriwether Middle school students gear up for South Carolina Bar Mock Trial Competition web posted November 15, 2008 MERRIWETHER – Middle school students from the Midlands region, including Merriwether Middle School, will compete in the South Carolina Bar Regional Middle School Mock Trial Competition Saturday, November 22, at the Richland County Courthouse.The competition will begin at 8:45 a.m. The courthouse is located at 1701 Main St. in Columbia. Participating schools include Blythewood Middle School, Covenant Classical Christian School, Crayton Middle School, Dutch Fork Middle School, E.L. Wright Middle School, Hand Middle School, Heathwood Hall Middle School, Kelly Mill Middle School, Leavelle McCampbell Middle School, Lexington Middle School, Merriweather Middle School, St. Andrews Middle School and St. Joseph School. Students will present the plaintiff and defense sides of a fictitious case before a panel of local volunteer lawyers. Additionally, students will fill the roles of defendant, witnesses and bailiff. Each team will be judged on its presentation skills, rather than the legal merits of the case. This year’s fictitious case, State of South Carolina v. Kinsley Williams, was created by the LRE Committee and the Middle School Mock Trial Subcommittee. The case involves Winston High School, a boarding school in York County, and a school-sponsored chat room for students and faculty with discussions ranging from class information to social dialogs. The plaintiff, Jamie Anderson, a senior at Winston High School, begins receiving dark and disturbing messages in the chat room and eventually goes to the police after receiving a threatening e-mail message. Kinsley Williams is arrested for cyber stalking one week after Anderson goes to the police and admits to writing two of the implicated messages, but he denies sending the other messages. To read more information about the case or about the Middle School Mock Trial program, go to http://www.scbar.org/msmt. Ten teams from five regional competitions will advance to the state competition on Saturday, December 6 at the Marc H. Westbrook Lexington County Judicial Center located at 212 S. Lake Dr. in Lexington. The mock trial program is sponsored by the South Carolina Bar’s Law Related Education (LRE) Division, which was developed in 1976 to improve the ability of teachers to instruct law related education. The mock trial program is made possible through an IOLTA grant from the South Carolina Bar Foundation. The South Carolina Bar, which has a membership of more than 12,500 lawyers, is dedicated to advancing justice, professionalism and understanding of the law. ©
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