Santa Clara County Mock Trial
News Release:
Prospect High School Wins Mock Trial Event
Mock Trial Journalist Winner
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For over twenty years high schools in Santa Clara County have been competing in the Constitutional Rights Foundations (CRF) Mock Trial.
The program was created to help students develop an understanding of the court system and build analysis and communication skills. Students from public and private schools study a case developed by CRF that explores a constitutional issue in a pretrial argument and then try the defendant in a simulated court trial.
Teachers and attorney coaches help the students wrestle with the constitution and legal issues involved in the case and help students as they learn to act as witnesses. Students conduct the entire trial. Schools compete for a total of seven nights.
Santa Clara County Mock Trial is cosponsored by the Santa Clara County Office of Education, the Santa Clara County Bar Association, and the Santa Clara Courts. Every session is held after hours inside a courtroom in downtown San Jose.
Every January the Santa Clara County Office of Education hosts the Mock Trial Invitational Scrimmage.
This one day event draws twenty teams from all over the state to participate in a dress
rehearsal for the upcoming county Mock Trial season, held in February across the state.
For more information about Mock Trial, contact Laura Guardino at 408-453-6688 or laura_guardino@sccoe.org
Date last updated: September 23, 2011