<p>Any mock trial nerds out there? What are your cases/roles this year? When does your competition start (or has it already ended)? And what state are you from?</p>
<p>I'll start:</p>
<p>State: California
Case: *People v. Woodson<a href="%5Burl=http://www.crf-usa.org/mock-trial-california/case-brief.html%5DCase%20Brief%5B/url%5D">/i</a>
Role: Defense & Prosecution Trial Attorney
Competition: Starts in early February</p>
<p>Hey me too! Our competition is in late Feb, though.</p>
<p>You’re a defense AND prosecution trial attorney? At our school everyone’s either on defense or prosecution, and then you can be trial atty, pre-trial, or witness. Or bailiff or clerk… </p>
<p>I’m defense trial atty btw.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m expecting doing both parts will be exhausting come competition time. What county are you in?</p>
<p>So is your school too small for you to field a full team, as it were? Did you guys have tryouts? Don’t really want to say county for confidentiality reasons but it’s not the same as yours. :)</p>
<p>We actually have a 23 person team, but some people (like me) have 2 parts. The coaches run 2 evenings of tryouts before each season. Our program is rather successful, so about 50-60 kids try out each year.</p>
<p>I wonder if I’ll run into some CC member when we do our run of scrimmages starting on MLK weekend. That’ll be interesting, provided I can ask the question without sounding too awkward.</p>
<p>Really? No other mock trial nerds? I feel lonely.</p>
<p>Hey!! I am on my mock trial team in California too. I am the defense pretrial attorney. My competition starts in february.</p>
<p>So are a bunch of the other 23 ppl alternates then? For us there’s a a bailiff, a time-keeper, 3 defense trial attys, 3 prosecution trial attys, a pre-trail atty for each side, and 4 witnesses per side. So in total we have 18 people plus like 3 or 4 alternates.</p>
<p>We have tryouts and then callbacks. 
Did you guys do it before? What do you think of this year’s case?</p>
<p>We have 5 people on pre-trial (and of course, we’ll pick 2 (or even 1) to compete). We have 4 trial attorneys (2 of us are going both sides). Our bailiff and clerk are 2 different people and we have 7 people playing 8 witness roles. Most of the extras are either on pretrial or are backups for witnesses.</p>
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<p>We just have one round of tryouts for the new people. Our team actually has a LONG, LONG history (a lot of county championships (too lazy to go check our shirt) and 3 state championships). I liked People v. Bratton more than I do this year’s case just because 2 of this year’s witnesses are whiny 13-year-olds. But we just have to deal with what CRF gives us.</p>
<p>I’ve probably given away so much info on our team. You could probably figure out who we are by doing a simple Google search. :P</p>
<p>People v. Woodson</p>
<p>I’m the prosecution pre-trial attorney and bailiff. Competition starts this Wednesday and prosecution is up first. I’m slightly nervous…any advice for people who have pre-trial attorneys before, either prosecution/defense?</p>
<p>State: Illinois
Case: People v. Grey
Role: Cross-Examiner for Prosecution and Defense (plus I wrote everyone’s stuff :))
Competition: Regional tournament next week; State is beginning of March</p>
<p>I’m in California too! Pretrial attorney for the defense and expert witness for the prosecution. All of your teams sound insanely good though - I just started ours this year (yikes). I think we have enough talent to do well locally, but we’d be absolutely annihilated by a team like yours, pi kid. We only have 12 kids total hahah, so almost everyone has two parts.</p>
<p>I’m starting mock trial this year! it seems interesting & fun. The coach asked me to join.</p>
<p>Mock trial nerd here :). I was at NHSMTC last year. Good luck to you all.</p>
<p>our school places in nationals</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>oh, and silverturtle, you wouldn’t happen to go to a school that starts with the letters “T” or “H” would you?</p>
<p>If so, think I know someone who might know you.</p>
<p>“oh, and silverturtle, you wouldn’t happen to go to a school that starts with the letters “T” or “H” would you?”</p>
<p>Nope.</p>
<p>I’m Detective Frankie Cooper
I’m going for the first time on Thursday</p>
<p>People v. Woodson in California.</p>
<p>I’m the pretrial attorney for both defense and prosecution. We’ve got our final competition tomorrow night (besides semi-finals, finals, . . .) against our toughest opponent. Should be interesting. Working on my defense statement right now and I felt like searching mock trial on CC would be break-worthy!</p>
<p>We won! Semifinals tomorrow! Anybody else in semis/finals?</p>