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Mock Trial Winners For Cooley Evidence Competition
Tampan Receives Award At 11th Episcopal District Lay Convention
Michael Jackson, Awardee and Patricia Wright, President of the Eleventh Episcopal District Lay Organization.
At the 73rd Annual Eleventh Episcopal District Con- vention held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Tampa Dele- gate representing the Tampa District Lay was Michael Jackson, one of the recipients of the Outstanding Com- munity Service Award as a Hall Of Fame inductee. Mr. Jackson is a member of Unity AME Church and serves as First Vice Chairman of the Tampa District Lay Or- ganization.
The other awardee was Frankie Craddock of Pal- metto, who did not attend the Convention.
The Mock Trial Board at Western Michigan Univer- sity (WMU) Cooley Law School’s Tampa Bay campus recently named Mackiesch Taylor and Mayra Puerta as the winners of the term’s Evidence Competition. The competition featured 10 teams of two students who each had to display their skills introducing evidence as a prosecutor, or defending a client against the evidence that had been introduced.
Using the “Hunger Games” as a theme, the case presented during the competition involved a de- fendant named Katniss Everdeen, who was charged with murdering Peeta Malark by bow and arrow.
WMU-Cooley Professor John Scott, who advises the Mock Trial Board and served as the court’s judge during the competition, said,
Cooley Law School Mock Trial Board members and com- petition participants from the law school’s Tampa Bay cam- pus. Pictured (front row, left-right) Nathan Tamulonis, Justin Sblano, Sarah Marin, Mayra Puerta, Mackiesh Taylor, Kim Canals, Thomas Yi, Shederis Lakin, (back row, left-right) Mock Trial Board President Clyde Barrow, Rob Johnson, An- drew Yaktman, Professor John Scott, Tim Saitta, and Trevor Persenaire.
“Members of the board did a superb job organizing the competition and the event was a great way for students to get practice applying rules of evidence.”
The finals of the competi- tion were held on June 17. Students Trevor Perse- naire and Nathan Tamu- lonis were runners-up for the competition.
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