Pre-Trial
Pre Trial attorneys get this much time to give their opening argument.
What is 5 minutes?
Find the objection:
"Mr. Jones, can you please describe the three hours between meeting your wife and getting to work late on December 7th of last year?"
What is a narrative?
The length of time that all of the statements have to go collectively.
What is 9 minutes?
This type of examination is where the attorney examines their own witness.
What is a direct examination?
Anybody in a courtroom is only to refer to the judge by this name.
What is "Your Honor".
The side that goes first in a court of law for a pretrial argument.
What is the defense?
This objection describes a question that challenges the witness on what they are saying.
What is Argumentative?
The statement that is supposed to be argumentative and illicit an emotional response from the judge.
What is a closing statement?
All questions you should ask on cross will be this type of question.
What is a leading question?
The job of the courtroom clerk.
What is keeping the time?
The Fifth amendment guarantees ALL of these things (must get at least two).
The right to Trial by jury, protection against double Jeopardy, and protection against testifying against themselves. It also guarantees due process.
This objection can only legally occur on a redirect examination.
What is Outside the Scope of Cross Examination?
Typically, a prosecution statement should use this term to identify the person being prosecuted rather than their name.
What is "the defendant"?
All possible witnesses in a trial. (must name ALL of the types).
What is a victim, a defendant, a lay witness, and an expert witness (order doesn't matter).
The term you would use to refer to the other team.
What is "council" or "opposing council" (only need one).
The beginning of a case packet (the part that includes the explanation of a Pre Trial) always includes the mention and explanation of this amendment.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
The four things that any good attorney must do when objecting.
What is:
1. Address the judge,
2. Announce that they are objecting,
3. Describe what part of the statement they are objecting to,
4. Announce the legal grounds for the objection.
This speech is the most improvised aspect of a trial, besides the objections.
What is a rebuttal?
Questions on an examination need to build on top of each other in order to avoid this objection.
What is foundation?
(Relevance is accepted, but you will not gain points).
Introductions go in this order (from first group to go to last).
Attorneys, then witnesses, then officer, then staff.
A case that has ___________ is a case that the judge does not need to consider, but can consider if they so choose during a pretrial argument.
What is persuasive authority?
The three exceptions to the Character Evidence objection that only the defense can use. (must include ALL of them in your answer)
What is the defendant's own character, the victims character, and the witness' character?
The enticing opening of an opening or closing statement could be given this term.
What is a hook?
This objection should be used to protect witnesses on your team from harassment by the opposing attorney.
What is argumentative?
The Mock Trial case packet is a ___________, which means that resources outside of it are not to be used.
What is a closed library?