Tuesday, January 17th: Week of the trial!!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Mock trial is from 12-3:25 on Thursday at the La Plata County Courthouse 1060 E 2nd Ave
• Park on 3rd or in neighborhoods to not have to pay meter.  DO NOT BE LATE!
• Carpool??
• Honors: Remember to finish first half of Cat's Cradle  by next Tuesday! EXTENSION ON FINAL SEMINAR to Tuesday 1/31.
• Don't forget to cite your sources! Create a bibliography and include that with your final written components.
• No electronic devices in courthouse!
• Shay Denning will be here to help anyone who would like feedback on their written components/witness Q and A, etc.... Who thinks they'd like to meet with her? Would be nice to have witness/lawyer duos meet with her as necessary.

Starter
Review your team's checklist for turning stuff in.  What questions or concerns do you have for me?

• Lawyer checklist
• Witness checklist
• Judge checklist

Agenda
LAWYERS-- have your team's note taker enter your team's evidence into THIS GOOGLE SPREADSHEET

Lawyers and Witnesses
1. Meet as a team to discuss your final Theory of Case and how each witness fits into that. COMPLETE THIS TEMPLATE (Make a copy of it first then share it with your entire team AND Ashley).

2. REMINDER: When  you turn in your direct and cross exam questions, you must also include "Evidence Summary"
Evidence summary (Lawyers and Witnesses!)
-          Title of evidence
-          Link to evidence
-          Brief summary of the piece of evidence (What is it?)
-          Most important lines/passage (ok to copy and paste)
-          How this evidence helps your case
-          How this evidence might hurt your case (if it does not hurt your case and you’re certain of that, write n/a)

3. Now get to work on your written components.  

4. Practice Q and A with witnesses if time today

WITNESSES
1. Review the evidence the other team plans to use for your cross-examination and formulate cross-ex questions based on that!  It should be in THIS GOOGLE SPREADSHEET once lawyers have entered it today.

2. Keep working on direct and cross-examination questions.  Please type them up for me with the evidence summary included for both witnesses!

​JUDGES

1. Create a schedule/script for our mock trial.  Here is an example from a former class. You will need to go around and ask the lawyer team's for their order,  and roughly how long they estimate needing for each witness.  Here are the witnesses: Prosecution: Lazo, Korematsu, Munson, Ringle, Biddle, Hoover Defense: D'Ille, Stimson, DeWitt, Masaoka, Bowron and Bendetsen Be sure to allow at least 20 minutes for arrival, set-up, quick rehearsal and then 15 minutes at the end for feedback/debrief.  
2. Write "FACTS OF THE CASE" which one of you will read to introduce the case.  Be sure to show this to me once you think you are done!
3. Begin watching 12 Angry Men. This film has some similarities to the current case. Listen intently to the conversation.  Individually answer these questions as the movie progresses and record them on your same document as the Summary of Case paper

a. Pick a juror in the movie. Describe the opinion that he initially formed about the case and why. Is this a proper way for a juror to form an opinion?
b. Did the one dissenting juror believe that the defendant was guilty, did he think the man was innocent, or did he concern himself with these thoughts at all?
c. Do you think that the dissenting juror planned to try to convince the others of his opinion all along? What were his methods of persuasion?
d. Do you think that the jurors thought that the boy had killed his father? Should they have voted to convict if they held that belief?
e. How would you have voted in this case? Why?