I had my first courtroom exercise today. How did I do?
Well, let's just try and focus on the fact that PC is a marathon, not a sprint. Because that did not go well. Nothing like the reassurance of knowing exactly how much you have to learn.
Next week, right? I'll get 'em next week.
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Mr. Baker, why don't you give me a report on the significance of the song "Tomorrow."
The first exercise (is it still opening statement) was probably the scariest in terms of stage fright. Later the fear/motivation will come from getting it right/kicking the other teams a**. That's when the fun begins.
My horror story relates to the expert witness mini-trial. I had had a hard time tracking down the student who agreed to be my medical "expert." Finally sat her down 10 minutes prior to my openning statement which I had typed notes for, but hadn't had a chance to review.
Prepped her for the 10 minutes, eventually putting sticky notes on her copies of the exhibits instructing, "when I point here on the full sized exhibit, say what's on the sticky note with the arrow pointing to that part of your copy."
Looked up--time for trial! I'm running to the court room, my partner's running out saying Prof. is threatening mistrial if you're not in there in 30 seconds.
I was. Sat down, heart pounding. Trying to review my openning statement notes. Ten seconds later, "are the parties ready?" "Yes your honor." "May it please the Court; counsel; ladies and gentlemen of the jury . . ."
It wasn't the best openning ever. But I didn't freeze up. We made it through. It was our only mini-trial loss, but also probably the one with the most memorable lessons.
Good luck. And enjoy PC as much as possible.
The song "Tommorrow" has the key line "Tommorrow's always a day away" misstating the key holding of O'Hara v. The Wind 387 US 465 (1939): "After all, tommorrow is another day." The issue in this song...
Actually, the line is "Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I love ya, Tomorrow, you're only a day away"
As the court noted in Bond v. Blofeld (007 SW2d 808,817), "tomorrow never dies".....
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