Exploration or Exploitation
The Cortes Trial
Before the Trial
Before we could prove Cortes innocent or guilty,
we as a class were parted into 3 groups; the defense, the prosecution, and the witnesses themselves. We went to go through many documents, first hand or secondary, and annotate each paper. We researched for weeks and when we finally complied our binder full of evidence, annotated and summarized we were given our witnesses. I was the defense attorney for the man himself, Cortes. I had to work with my witness to construct and design a set of questions that I would officially be asking him. We had to practice rehearsing our questions and prepare our evidence for the case. |
My questions for Cortes.
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Evidence
Trial Day!
The day of the trial, we dressed to impress and headed downtown to take our case to a real courthouse. There we went and executed our trial in a real-life manner. Out of all the trials that took place, the defense team was the first to ever win. Being a part of that defense team made me overjoyed that we won!
This is a video of me during trial questioning Cortes. (Skip to 7:10)