Local News in Brief : Mock Trial, Real Winner
After a battle of wits in a pretend courtroom in Sacramento, a team of students from an Orange County high school narrowly defeated a school from Los Angeles to capture the California State Mock Trial Championship.
The 12-member squad from Cypress High School will advance to the national mock trial championship in Dallas next month. Finishing second in the competition, which included schools from 21 counties, was John Marshall High School from the Los Feliz-Silver Lake area.
Team members serve as prosecuting and defense attorneys in a hypothetical criminal case--involving a defendant charged with receiving stolen property and battery on a police officer--before panels of lawyers and judges.
The Orange County school won the final round Thursday on a 2-1 vote. The event was sponsored by the Constitutional Rights Foundation of Los Angeles.
Judging the final competition were Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alexander Williams; Marvin Baxter, appointments secretary for Gov. George Deukmejian, and Cecily Bond, presiding judge of the Sacramento Municipal Court.
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