How to Win a Mock Trial Competition

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[Elaynerocks]

im a seventh grader doing a mock trial and winning!!!

[BeforeClass]

@Elaynerocks Awesome! Keep it up.

[kandykrazi564]

I watched this video when I first started mock trial. It was really helpful! Me and my team used these tips and we are going to state!!!

[BeforeClass]

@kandykrazi564 .. thanks for the feedback! Glad it helped! If you need any additional mock trial support, let us know!

[spyrotrekkie]

I wish I found this video before I went to the Northeast Ohio High School District Competition. It would've helped me out a lot.

[BeforeClass]

@spyrotrekkie

[AKKurjiTV]

looks very interesting

[dpodein]

learning from a video is waaay better than the boring book I had to use in law school.

[PrestonJClark]

Good luck!

[jammyp248]

Hey we've got our mock trial on 10th of march I'm really nervous coz were against another school and I know they'll jump at me with something unexpected :L

[Yvenord]

This helped me win mine 2 weeks ago

[PrestonJClark]

@chrism4n14 sounds like fun! The odds are always stacked against you, my friend. Go get 'em!

[chrism4n14]

So.. Here's an interesting story.. I have to do a trial, for my history class, about whether or not the Vietnam War was justified, either unjust or just are the options. Guess who the defense attorney for the mock trial is? Me! Which leads me to my question. Does anybody know how to conduct a trial when the odds are extremely stacked against you?

[vincent15641]

I'd like to see a mock trial conducted based on the information in the

Aimed At America 1 video and the Aimed At America 3 video. The court would witness too many parallels against America for an impartial juror to rule that America is not guilty of being the prime suspect described in the Bible.

[darris321]

@xXiluvteresaXx it's easy just study what you need for whichever side your team has been given.

If you're the witness of the prosecutorial side, then when you are examined just give them detailed stories that help the case, when you are cross examined try to avoid answering directly and waste as much time as possible (but don't get the judge angry at your philandering)

Were you there?

I was talking to my friend rachel and she said she wanted to go there but I didn't so we argued for a while ...

[darris321]

@Ariodude yeah that's what I was thinking.

There are also no kids lol

we act as witnesses and attorneys.