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STH Mock Trial Team advances to State Competition

web posted February 27, 2007
JOHNSTON – Strom Thurmond High School students competed in the Piedmont South Carolina Bar High School Mock Trial Competition on Saturday, February 24, at the Greenville County Courthouse.
   
The local team was selected as one of the top four teams out of ten teams competing in the Piedmont Regional Competition and will advance to the state competition to be held March 9 -10 to be held in Columbia. Other winners in the Piedmont Division were Bob Jones, Wade Hampton and Daniel. Regional competitions were also held in the Lowcountry, Pee Dee and Midlands Ares of the state. Sixteen teams from these regional competitions will advance to the state competition.
   
Participating students include Erin Armstrong, Brittney Black, Lydia Blain, Zach Collier, Emily Foster, Jason Henderson, Caitlin Jebens, Angel Jones, Alicia Lewis, Ca’Shara Lott, Ktyall Malik, Wallace Mealing and Tre’Wright.
   
Ktyall Malik and Caitlin Jebens won Best Attorney Awards and Tre’ Wright received two Best Witness Awards.
   
Mock Trial Advisor, Ms. Denise Jackson said, “Our team owes many thanks to Attorneys Shane and Blair Massey who have given countless hours of working with the students in preparation for the competition. Both of these individuals contributed expertise of training to the students.”
   
Ms. Jackson further stated, “The judges for the event stated that our team and the Wade Hampton Team gave the most excellent presentations of any high school teams they had ever seen and were equal in presentations to college teams.”
   
Students presented the plaintiff and defense sides of a fictitious case before a panel of local volunteer lawyers. Additionally, students fill the roles of defendant, witnesses and bailiff. Each team was judged on its presentation skills, rather than the legal merits of the case. This year’s case involves a murder.
     
The case presented was based on this information: Each year, a group of students at Glendon University throw a Halloween party where cocktails spiked with MDMA, an illegal drug commonly referred to as ecstasy, are distributed by the “grim reaper” to unwitting guests. After consuming the poisoned cocktail, one student dropped dead, and the “grim reaper” is charged with murder. For more information on the mock trial case or program, visit www.scbar.org/member/lre/highschoolmocktrial.asp.
   
The Mock Trial program is sponsored by the South Carolina Bar’s Law Related Education (LRE) Division, which was developed to improve the ability of teachers to instruct law related education in 1976. The program is made possible through an IOLTA grant from the SC Bar Foundation. The SC Bar, which has a membership of more than 12,000 lawyers, is dedicated to advancing justice, professionalism and understanding of the law.

 
 

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