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The second annual Harvey
Wallace Northern California American Mock Trial Association regional
tournament will attract 26 teams from universities in California,
Arizona and Utah is scheduled Friday-Sunday, Feb. 13-15, at California
State University, Fresno. It is funded by Associated Students, Inc. and
open to the public.
Mock Trial competitions provide students from any academic discipline an
opportunity to experience the courtroom atmosphere and its various
aspects and competitive trial simulations. The students develop
critical-thinking and public-speaking skills, as well as knowledge of
legal practices and procedures.
This is the third year Fresno State has competed in Mock Trial, with the
local event competition is named in memory of after the late criminology
professor Harvey Wallace, a former Fresno city attorney and professor,
who helped establish the Fresno State Mock Trial program.
The tournament will begin with an opening ceremony begins at 3:45 p.m.
on Friday in at the Leon S. and Pete P. Peters Education Center
Auditorium; located in the Student Recreation Center (at Woodrow and
Shaw avenues). At that time, pairings will be announced.
The first round will begin at 6 p.m. Friday.
at 6 p.m., with pairings announced during the opening ceremony.
The second round begins at 9 a.m. on Saturday, pitting winning teams from
round Round 1 one against each other, and losing the other team in a
losers bracket. teams against each other. The third round will be at 3
p.m.
Sunday’s The final round begins will be held at 9 a.m., with on Sunday
followed by a closing the awards ceremony at 2 p.m. in the Leon Peters
Center Auditorium.
Competition will take place in the Family Food and Science, Psychology
and Human Services, the, McKee Fisk and the Social Science buildings on
campus.
The American Mock Trial Association was founded in 1985 by Dean Richard
Calkins of Drake Law School. AMTA serves as the governing body for
intercollegiate mock trial competition.
Through engaging in trial
simulations in competition with teams from other institutions, students
develop critical thinking and public speaking skills, as well as
knowledge of legal practices and procedures.
For more information, contact Fresno State’s Mock Trial president,
Christopher Storelli, at
chrisstorelli@csufresno.edu.
(Copy by University Communications
news intern Amanda Fine.)
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