The Mock Trial Experience

There aren't many times in life when you can say that you have gone back in time to try to alter history and change a supreme court ruling but thats exactly what happened to Team Savannah. As a litigation team we were tasked with the daunting challenge of defending the one and only Mr. Adolph Homer Plessy in the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.

Naturally the first thing the team did was take one look at our case and split up to procrastinate. After begging and pleading to have the trial rescheduled due to extreme procrastination and multiple illness that plagued Team Savannah, we figured it was crunch time. So Team Savanah managed an amazing feat and pulled it together with a rather persuasive defense.

Clearly the most interesting part of our defense had to do with the fact that the railroads ran across public lands and therefore made them public accommodations so the the discrimination against Mr. Plessy was in fact a constitutional violation.

Overall the experience was satisfying in the way that we as a team got to feel what it was like to try and defend a "lost cause" case. Personally I feel that our case with the public accommodation argument should have been a deciding cause to change history and side with Mr. Plessy but that was not the case. Lastly I would like to say that I would love to continue the mock trial experience to challenge my mind and figure loopholes through the law, I find it fascinating.