Howard University Mock Trial Team heads to championship tournament

Howard University Mock Trial Team heads to championship tournament

by: Dr. Samori Swygert

Howard University and other HBCUs have been receiving a lot of bad press in the news over the last year. We’ve heard about issues of enrollment, problems with student loans, budget and finance issues. Well we should also bring out the good and the excellence that is being produced simultaneously.

I’m very proud of my Alma Mater, and I felt great joy to visit the university website this week and saw that their Mock Trial Team has made it to the championship tournament. They will compete against Princeton, Penn State, George Washington, Rutgers, American University, and the University of Maryland.

The competition takes place on Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23 at E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse (333 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001). The team is led by a faculty advisor, Angela Minor, Esq. The University of Virginia will be the hosting school.

They will act as five prosecuting attorneys and four leading witnesses, according to the university’s website. The proposed case argument will be positioned around a person committing an armed rοbbery that resulted in an involuntary manslαughter.

The team is composed of the following members: seniors Jamsion Harris and Aliayah Baaith; juniors Mercedes Parker, Jeryd Wilder andD’Sean Williams-Brown; and sophomores Edward Harding, III, Gavin Reagins, Nicholas Taylor, and Sha’huni Robinson.

Let’s wish them luck, and once again, I’m very proud. GO BISON!!!!! Hopefully we’ll put that Wiley College, Great Debaters whipping on them.

You can also find this article at: http://www.yourblackworld.net/2014/03/black-news/howard-univ-competes-with-ivy-league-institutions-for-mock-trial-championship