May it please cenrt ••• It is a hot July night, heavy with humidity and tension between two friends. As Elisha Worth drives away, she glances in her rear view mirror and sees a crime so heinous she doesn ' t want to believe her eyes. She glances and sees the bigger man grab the smaller one. She looks again and sees light glint off a shovel as the smaller man swings it. She sees fighUng, and then she drives until she can ' t see H hing at all. Now one man is dead, and another ' s life is on the line. Ruel Ellis is on trial for the murder of his best friend Cony Webber. and it is up to Dr. Tim Collins ' PS 490 class to either convict him or set him free. Depending on what the assignment is, of course. This is Mock Trials. Even though the schedule said the class met every Monday from 6-8:45. soon after the course started I realized that this class would require a lot more than three hours a week prepara- tion. Mock Trials takes a case that has actually been tried, and gives it to students who divide into teams, to alternate- ly prosecute and defend. My team captain, Marcus Maples, was relentless. He insisted on three meetings each week, and our meeting would always last at least five hours. He was right, too, though 1 left every day with a headache from thinking too much. Those meetings really prepared our team for the forthcoming competitions. After almost an entire semester of hard work, we finally were able to compete. The competition was at Middle Tennessee State University, and it lasted from early Friday morning to late Saturday night. We were slated to com- pete against teams like nation- ally ranked Bellarmine, and MTSU. On Friday, before the competition, 1 consumed almost two entire rolls of Turns. None of my teammates were without their remedies - Pepto, Rolaids, everyone had 24 READY TO TESTIFY. Angle Vann prepares to give testimony as key wit- ness U.S. Naval Seaman Elisha Worth. CHEERING HIS TEAMS ON (above, left). As coach. Dr. Collins supports his team at every tournament.
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