Another Mock Trial Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9txYK-dKeds

Online Mock Trial Training

See below the invitation to log-in for the workshop twith Kyle Kaiser presenting, "Rules of Evidence".  

Below is the invitation to log-in for the workshop  afternoon.

Utah State Bar CLE Department is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Law Related Education Rules of Evidence Mock Trial Workshop

Time: Dec 19, 2019 05:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/238943647

Meeting ID: 238 943 647

From the State Mock Trial Program -- 
This Thursday, December 19th at 5:00 p.m. will be our 1st mini-workshop "Rules of Evidence."  One of our board members and Asst. AG will be presenting with the help of some mock trial students from Integritas. This will be a live "online" presentation. I will be sending the link a link so please watch for that and share with your students.

Schedule for 2020

SCHEDULING: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (Mornings/Afternoons/Evenings)

Middle School Competition Dates – Playoff Rounds:

February 12, February 14, February 18, February 19, February 21, February 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28
(9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.) (1:00-3:30 p.m.) (5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.)

[I have requested that we not complete on February 12 during the day, February 20 -- Day and Evening,  February 27 and 28 --Evening, March 3 -- Day.]

Elimination – Round of 16:March 5 (5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.)

Quarter Finals – 8 teams:March 10 (5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.)

Semi Finals – 4 teams:March 13 (1:00-3:30 p.m.)

Middle School Final 2 Teams:March 19 (5:30-8:30 p.m.)

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

We watched part of this video of a Mock Trial conducted in California.
Some of their procedures and terms are different from ours, but this will give you a good idea of how a Mock Trial competition works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXYrpLRhQlI

Students received applications and teacher recommendation forms.

Defense

Points of law:
What Officer Christensen did was 
   not excessive force
   not unprovoked
   not unjustified
   not unreasonable


The Plaintiff claims that the 3D gun (which was made to look like a real gun) was not a threat to anyone.   However,  people have threatened others with fake guns.  When a person sees something that looks like a gun and does not know that it is non-functional, that person could reasonably feel threatened, especially when the gun is somewhere it should not be. 


There were other causes that led Savea Tuvale to leave Emigration.  He had been bullied and the bullying had gotten much worse, much more threatening. 


Savea Tuvale is over the age of 16 and did pose a threat according to the information that Officer Christensen had.

must show "a continuing, persistent, and widespread practice of unconstitutional misconduct by the entity’s employees;"  pg. 80  --  2 of 2 in BestLaw

Also
To prove actual causation, the plaintiff must show that “but for” the defendant’s actions, the alleged injury would not have occurred. 
Plaintiff claims that part of the injury to Savea is his loss of educational opportunities avaiable in Emigration --  He didn't acutally decide to leave until after the increased bullying incidents. 
 [It was not Officer Christensen's actions that caused the bullying to increase -- it was Savea's choice to bring a gun to school.-- added to a bias already present in parts of the community against so-called "outsiders."  Neither of those things were caused or contributed to by the Emigration Police Department.] 

To prove proximate causation, the plaintiff must show that its alleged injury was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of the defendant’s actions. The plaintiff need not prove that the defendant actually foresaw the alleged injury as a consequence of its actions; rather, the plaintiff need only show that a reasonable person in the same situation would have foreseen the alleged injury as a consequence of her actions.

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Bailiff Workshop

This is the link to the bailiff workshop:

https://zoom.us/recording/share/5p8BjrLrx5QavCiSLyytLpjEZspLPf_5_Jf7sXtEjMOwIumekTziMw

You could watch it anytime.  

Slides:  

You  (both bailiffs) will meet before the trial in a side room with the judges.

Ask the presiding judge how he or she wants the witnesses sworn in -- three at once or individually? 

The bailiff for the Plaintiff will call the court to order.

Introduce the judge  page. 36 example of what you can say to introduce the panel and presiding judge. Speak up so your voice carries throughout the courtroom.

Then the judge will ask the plaintiff bailiff to call the case.   Pages 36 and 37

Sometimes a break between plaintiff and defense –

 Defense bailiff takes over and calls the court into session  -- The defense bailiff will take over the second half of the trial

Slides and the Trial the Samples were from for the Online Seminar

Mock Trial Witness Workshop "Strategies"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h_KP-eaXrY

Impeachment about 1:27 in the video. 

Calendar of Events

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

January 16 (4:00 - 5:30 p.m.) Teacher Meeting (Attorney-coaches also are invited.) 

January 16 (5:30 - 7:30 p.m.) Attorney CLE Meeting (Mock trial teachers also are invited.)

Jan 28, 2019 4:30 PM Mountain Time -- How to Be a Witness, Online Training. 

February 19 to March 8 Playoff Rounds 

March 12 High School Round of Sixteen 

March 14 Junior High Round of Sixteen 

March 19 Quarter-final Rounds March 22 Semi-final Rounds

 March 26 High School Finals 

March 27 Junior High School Finals 

May 16-18, 2019 National Mock Trial Competition Athens, Georgia

Online Training for Witnesses (and their Attorneys)!

Victoria Dyatt is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: How To Be A Witness
Time: Jan 28, 2019 4:30 PM Mountain Time

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/159957989

She'll be using a similar format to the other live workshop

with an interactive online Power-point.

So have pens and paper to take notes and to participate in the activities.

Yes, she will be recording live from Draper, Utah. 

You could preview by looking at her PowerPoint from a previous year:

Mock Trial Witness Workshop "Strategies"

Also, here is a series of videos with advice for attorneys for various parts of the trial: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU7O9YMPCBOYw7msG9nDkEQ/videos

Link to the trial materials at Utah Law Related Education: 

https://www.lawrelatededucation.org/programs/mock-trials 

Simplified Rules of Evidence: Recording of Online Presentation

Share recording with viewers:
https://zoom.us/recording/share/PubPuUhkRp4cwJrzjohpL2Rjug4FJAz29J8D16djQo6wIumekTziMw 

Our Competition Dates and Times

Friday, February 22 - WVC
1:00-3:30 a.m.
P - American Fork JHS
D - Lumen Scholar - Team B

Wednesday, February 27 - Sandy JC
9:00-11:30 a.m.
P - Midvale MS
D - American Fork JHS


Our state organization  will be using Online Technology (Zoom Video) so the online workshops will be live and scheduled throughout January. How it works is you will receive invitations to join workshop live  in your email to and you can share so your students can join in. Our first scheduled one will be with Kyle Kaiser "Rules of Evidence" on January 10th at 5:00 p.m. 

Below is the invite to the "Rules of Evidence" Meeting tomorrow, January 10th with Kyle Kaiser.

Victoria Dyatt is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Mock Trial Rules of Evidence
Time: Jan 10, 2019 5:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/133013035

Schedule Changes for Mock Trial

January 2 -- Schedule Changes
The schedule will be such that the Round of 16 will be moved up to March 4thfor High School and March 7th for Middle/JHS. The week March 11th - March 15 will be practice week for those teams moving on to the Qtr. Finals on March 19th and Semi-Finals on March 22nd. Final Rounds will be March 26th - High School and March 27th for MS/JHS. If you have any questions, please let me know.

I will receive the case on the afternoon of  January 16.  

We still need an attorney coach.  Does anyone have any connections?  

There will be online trainings available from the state organization -- 
Our first scheduled one will be with Kyle Kaiser "Rules of Evidence" on January 10th at 5:00 p.m. 
I will let you know more information.