Hawken Students Join Mock Trial Competition

Teams represented at the competition argued a fictitious case that focused on Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. An article in the News-Herald reports, “In this year’s case, students argued both for and against whether an officer who shot a juvenile holding a bow and arrow in the shoulder during a suspected convenience store robbery should be convicted of felonious assault. The officer later learned the bow and arrow was a toy, and the boy holding the ‘weapon’ was simply in character after attending a medieval faire.”

Read the full article to hear what Izzy Cohen ’16 had to say about the experience and to see a photograph of Sarah Senkfor ’16 being cross-examined.