How to resolve AdBlock issue? The two teams will once again face off in the courtroom on Monday, Feb. 12, in Lake County Superior Court, located on the fourth floor of the Lake County Courthouse, 255 N. Forbes St. in Lakeport.
The first round will take place from 9 to 11 a.m., with the second found of competition from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
The two teams will take turns both as prosecution and defense in the fictional case of People v. Davidson, which involves first degree murder and a pretrial argument on the Fourth Amendment.
According to the case brief, Casey Davidson, a resident of the town of Acorn, Calif., faces a felony count of first degree murder for the death of Alex Thompson, another young resident of Acorn and member of Ultra Nats, an extremist nationalist group.
The prosecution alleges that Davidson murdered Thompson using Davidson’s walking stick in the same park where a political rally had just taken place during the morning of Sept. 14, 2017. The defense argues that Davidson did not murder Thompson and has an alibi for what happened at the time of Thompson’s death.
Based on the brief, the pretrial issue in People v. Davidson focuses on whether it is a search under the Fourth Amendment for the government to obtain routinely collected GPS location data from a third party.
At the end of each round, the judge will announce his verdict.
After the completion of both rounds, scoring will be completed and the county winner announced in a short ceremony in which students will receive certificates for their performance.
The winning team will travel to Orange County in March for the 37th annual California Mock Trial Finals, hosted by the Constitutional Rights Foundation, and compete with teams from 33 other counties.
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