Competing in its first tournament at the Atlantic Coast Regional Mock Trial Tournament of the American Mock Trial Association (AMTA), The Queensborough Mock Trial Team won the “Spirit of the AMTA” award. The competition was held on February 22 -24, at St. John’s University.
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| At the Atlantic Regional, 24 teams, consisting of two each from Columbia, Princeton, NYU, University of Pennsylvania, Dickinson, Rutgers, Seton Hall, and St. John’s, four teams from Fordham, and teams from Syracuse, Cornell, and Iona competed along with the team from the QCC Business Department. The case involved the sentencing phase of a mock criminal jury trial of a defendant who had pleaded guilty to a second degree assault after stabbing a child protective agency worker with an HIV infected syringe, as the victim had been attempting to remove a child from the defendant’s home. The tournament consisted of four rounds, in which each of the teams represented the prosecution and the defense twice. Team members presented opening and closing statements, introduced evidence, conducted direct and cross examinations, and role played as witnesses in the mock trial at which two or three volunteer lawyers presided as mock jurors and judges. |
The “Spirit of the AMTA” award is given to the one team in the tournament that best exemplifies AMTA’s ideals of civility, justice, and fair play. The selection of the winner of the award is determined by ratings submitted for each team by their “opposing counsel” during the first three rounds of the tournament. In winning the award, our team received 29 out of a possible maximum 30 ranks.
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Professor Ted Rosen - Coach of the Mock Trial Team, Jamil Barett (in the back), Siddika Sultana (in the front), Ida Gilharry (holding the plaque), Suzette Lee, O’Brian Franklyn (in the back), Steve Phanord, Mark Chapman |
Please join with me in taking this opportunity to saluting the members and coach of the Mock
Trial Team.
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