Mock trial camp teaches middle school students presentation

BALTIMORE -- Forty Carroll County, Maryland, students, ranging from sixth to ninth graders, spent 10 hours across two days this month preparing to defend or prosecute a fictional legal case based on a distracted driving charge. The inaugural free mock trial camp for middle schoolers at the Exploration Commons library branch culminated in a trial at Westminster’s historic courthouse. Although ...

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