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2019 OhiO MOCk Trial CuyahOga

regiOnal COMpeTiTiOn

The CMBA congratulates all participants and volunteer judicial panelists for the successful 36th
Annual ohio Mock Trial Cuyahoga Regional Competition! Thanks to the efforts of 30 volunteer
judicial panelists and staff members at the County Courthouse on Feb. 15, 14 teams from eight high
schools that won both trials at January’s District Competition played each other for the Regionals.
The CMBa congratulates the six teams that represented our region at the state
Tournament in Columbus March 7–9:
John hay Campus – School of Science & Medicine, Team Medicine
Lake Ridge Academy, Team Blue
orange high School, Teams Coppola, hitchcock, Scorsese, and Tarantino

Each year, volunteer judges and attorneys serve as competition judicial panelists, scoring
and critiquing the performances of the region’s top young legal minds as they present their
arguments both for the prosecution and defense. The case this year was a particularly
interesting one, about privacy rights surrounding the collection of evidence via drone. This
is ohio’s largest academic competition and Cuyahoga County high school participation was
among the highest yet.

our sincere thanks to the judges and magistrates of the Court of Common Pleas, Cleveland
Municipal Court, Cuyahoga County Eighth District Court of Appeals, Common Pleas Court,
Probate Court, and Domestic Relations Court for allowing us to use their courtrooms for this
special event, and to the Justice Center, Lakeside Courthouse, Law Library, and Cady Reporting
Services, Inc. staff for their gracious assistance.

For more photos of participating teams and of the volunteer judicial panelists, please visit
the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Foundation’s Facebook page.

If you are interested in volunteering as a judicial panelist for the ohio Mock
Trial in 2020, or for information about other upcoming mock trial volunteer
opportunities, please contact Competition Coordinator Jessica Paine by
emailing jpaine@clemetrobar.org or by calling
(216) 696-3525 ext. 4462.

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