Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

new mexico high school mock trial . . .

Mock trial is an innovative, hands-on experience in the law for high school students of all ages and abilities. Every year hundreds of New Mexico teenagers and their teacher advisors and attorney coaches spend the better part of the school year researching, studying and preparing a hypothetical courtroom trial involving critical issues that are important and interesting to young people.

In February, the teams try their cases before judges and panels of jurors in courtrooms in Albuquerque and Las Cruces.

See 2009 results or see 2009 photos

• Review or print this year's case, Order in the Court (teaching materials), or the mock trial rules. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader© to print the materials. If you don't have Acrobat Reader, you may download it by clicking on the Adobe© icon.

• Get the mock trial rubrics for the State Department of Education's Standards and Benchmarks.

• Apply for the Honorable Gene E. Franchini scholarship.

• Learn more about the competition.

• Review or print tips and advice for successful participation in mock trial.

• Review the 2008-2009 program calendar.

• Register to attend the annual team training, to enter your team or to serve as a judge or administrative volunteer.

• Order prior years' original New Mexico case materials.