Monday, November 7, the season ended for our Mock Trial Team. The team will likely be competing in a spring competition at Duke University.<br>The 20 students were, as always, exemplary role models of talent, hard work, and good sportsmanship.<br>Some notable accomplishments: senior Nicole Kim, a defense attorney on the team, was named MVP in one round of competition and Isabelle Kwok, the "victim" in this year's case was named MVP in another round.<br>The judge and the attorney scorers felt that our bailiff, junior Rishil Pansuria should have been MVP. They were so impressed with his courtroom presence.<br>Two students received perfect scores from the attorneys scoring us; junior Janice Lee who was playing the defendant and of course our bailiff, Rishil Pansuria.<br>Sophomore Patrick Ma was amazing as a defense attorney this year, as both a new member and a relatively young one (he is still 14), his closing argument was particularly noteworthy.<br>The two pretrial attorneys were both exemplary: junior Jeremy Barajas and senior Manshaan Dhir. The role pf pretrial attorney is the position on the team where the student attorney argues the constitutionality of a particular issue directly with the judge, this year it was the admissibility of information gathered as a result of an illegal police stop.
