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Originally posted by kddani
have to bump this, because i'd seriously love to punch the crap out of my moot court competitors tonight for being totally unethical and violating the rules of the competition, and the judge for not caring and letting them get away with it.
It's people like them that give lawyers a bad name.
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Welcome to law school! My trial practice class last semester was a joke. For our last final trial, my partner and I rocked it - we did a lot of work researching, preparing and perfecting our case.
Our opponents were an embarrassment - violating ethical rules, trying to duck out of the pretrial stipulations, constantly trying to ask blatantly inadmissible questions, trying to assert that we were being unethical (no sorry honey, that's you!), etc. The other fun part was the fact that neither one of them had bothered to figure out the hearsay rule, so we'd object, "Objection, hearsay!" and they would just say "No, it's not." Ummm, how about a legal argument, kids? They would just mumble irrelevant stuff and then the judge would pretty much just tell them the answer.
Of course, the judge scored our opponents higher.
kddani, I hope that it is some consolation to tell you that, in real life, those idiots cannot get away with this junk. The majority of the time, they will be shut down by judges and ridiculed by other lawyers. Word gets around fast about who isn't well prepared, who isn't that bright, and who isn't ethical.
Karma is a sweet, sweet thing.
Just kidding.
j/k.
Great you're not Uf Pike...who cares? No one ever said you were!
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