Countywide : Thousand Oaks High Wins Trial Contest
Twenty-one Thousand Oaks High School students will compete in the California State Mock Trial Competition April 9-11 in Sacramento after winning the Ventura County competition this week.
The Thousand Oaks team was named the winner Thursday night in an awards presentation led by Charles Weis, assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction for the county schools office, and Steven Z. Perren, presiding judge of the Ventura County Superior Court.
Thousand Oaks, which held the county title from 1985 to 1988, earned 583 points.
La Reina High School, winner of the county competition for the past two years, was second with 581 points.
Camarillo High School, which came in third with 562 points, won the event in 1984 and 1989.
Simi Valley High School came in fourth, garnering 545 points.
These high school students argued the fictitious case of People vs. Stover, in which security guard Jan Stover beat African-American Dale Colver with a billy club in 1990 at Rover Labs in the hypothetical city of Lakerville, Calif.
The prosecutors argued that Stover, a member of a white supremacy group who wore a large swastika on his uniform, used excessive force. The defense attorneys maintained that he acted in self-defense.
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