The organizer of the 2019 Maryland high school mock trial tournament has named Beth Tfiloh “co-champion” after the Jewish school’s team was unable to compete in the final round because it fell on the holy penultimate day of Passover and ...

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Though it qualified for the 2019 Maryland high school mock trial finals, Beth Tfiloh was denied the chance to compete for the championship on April 26 because the last round fell on the holy penultimate day of Passover and no ...

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ANNAPOLIS – Richard Montgomery High School defeated Baltimore City College Friday to win the Maryland 2019 high school mock-trial championship after a two-hour battle at the state’s highest court on a subject all-too familiar to the battling teens: cyberbullying. The ...

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Though the verdict in the case went to Richard Montgomery, the championship – which is based on overall presentation – went to Allegany High School by a razor-thin margin.

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The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law is standing by one of its professors who resigned from his position as a mock trial coach to undergraduate students after accidentally forwarding an email referring to Latino students as ...

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The Park School wins high school mock-trial championship, besting Baltimore City College in annual event at the Court of Appeals.

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College students will arrive in Baltimore next month to argue a casino bribery case at the 2016 Eastern Regional Mock Trial Tournament.

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Amid echoes of Ferguson, Mo., high-school students from Severna Park and Cumberland battled Friday in the mock trial of a fictional police officer accused of shooting an unarmed 18-year-old man to death without justification. With his team cast as the prosecution, Severna Park High School student Cory Jeweler said in his opening statement that Michael Case’s arms were raised in surrender when officer Darren Gray fired nine shots into him on a warm, clear day last August. “It is the police officer’s duty to protect and serve,” Jeweler said to start the championship round of the statewide High School Mock Trial Competition. “Gray didn’t protect and serve anyone. He pulled out his gun and pulled the trigger.”

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Take it from this mock trial judge: pro bono work is not just providing free legal representation to the indigent.

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Annapolis High School won the 2013 Maryland State Bar Association Statewide High School Mock Trial Competition on Friday, defeating Cumberland’s Allegany High School at the final event held in the Maryland Court of Appeals’ courtroom.

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