Mock Trial: Your Role!

Read and view the following pages and/or videos.  You will not need to read every word; you must scan the documents visually to get what you need.  Use your good reading skills!! 

Read the steps in Mock Trial:

http://www.azflse.org/download.cfm?filename=2007StepsinaMockTrial&type=pdf&loc=mocktrial

Read legal terms to know:

http://www.okbar.org/public/mocktrial/terms.pdf

Read a student's opening statement:

http://midthought.org/2009/03/my-opening-statement-for-the-mock-trial-tryouts/

Watch an opening statement:

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/investigation-discovery/5028-reasonable-doubt-opening-statements-video.htm

Read sample direct questioning:

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/eousa/kidspage/direct.html

Watch an attorney doing direct examination on his witnesses in a kidnapping trial.  In direct examination, the witness is the "star" (telling his/her story).

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2009/05/29/ma.rockefeller.trial.insession

Read and View about some famous American trials:

The Lindberg baby kidnapping trial --

http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/lindber/lindbernew.htm

The Salem, Massachusetts witch trials --

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm

PLAY "SALEM WITCHCRAFT JEOPARDY"

The case of the "Amistad" (which took place largely in New Haven) --

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/amistad/Amistd.htm