The annual Alaska High School Mock Trial Competition presents teams of high school students with the chance to learn about individual liberties and the legal process and to explore career opportunities within the law by participating in a simulated trial against other teams. Each team consists of six to nine members who play the roles of attorneys and witnesses in a simulated bench trial setting. There are four preliminary rounds to the competition, a semi-final round, and finally a final round. Each round lasts approximately two hours. Over the course of the competition, students must make opening and closing arguments, examine and cross-examine witnesses, introduce evidence, and face and defend multiple hearsay or related objections. Teams are evaluated by a three-person panel of judges, attorneys, and law clerks.
If you are interested in being a volunteer judge, please contact Lars Johnson at lars.johnson1981@gmail.com.
Thank you.
Jamie Allen and Greg Minton grew up together in Alaskopolis, Alaska. Lifelong friends, they went to college together and returned to Alaska intent on following their dream of developing cutting-edge computer programs. The pair had their first success with Custom Eyes, a program for calibrating lasers for Lasik eye surgery. A medical technology company offered to buy the program. Jamie didn't want to sell, believing the two could market the program themselves or find a better offer, but Greg argued that they should sell. The disagreement divided the friends, leading to heated arguments and a split in their friendship. Jamie's discovery that Greg was addicted to drugs only caused further deterioration in the relationship.
Early one morning in October, 2011, police discovered Greg's body in an Alaskopolis alleyway. He had been shot and killed. The police traced the murder to a local drug dealer, Casey Bale, who had been selling Greg drugs. Casey, however, insists that Jamie paid to have Greg murdered. Police have arrested Jamie for the killing and he now stands accused of murder for having paid Casey to kill Greg.
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