{"id":46518,"date":"1999-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-05-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/948ad87b-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"1999-05-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-05-12T00:00:00","slug":"948ad88e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/948ad88e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar Association to stage mock trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday, students from the Marianas High School, Mt. Carmel and Marianas Baptist Academy will don the robe designed for the justices during a mock trial at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press statement, teams from each school will either defend or prosecute the case involving a hit and run incident. While a  legal counsel will help schools take this mock trial into a realistic level.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the CNMI Bar Association, members Robert Torres, Jose Bermudes and Sheila Bowman will each assist the three schools.<\/p>\n<p>During the last Attorney General&#8217;s Cup for speech competition, its President Ramon Villagomez announced the presentation of a mock trial this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to develop our teams,&#8221; he said, and cited that Guam placed second during the 1998 national mock trial competition held in Albuquerque, New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>With this year&#8217;s commencement of the mock trial program, he is optimistic that the CNMI can follow a similar route to the national level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This program will further enhance our young people&#8217;s interest in the field of law and governance,&#8221; he told the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Impressed by the seven speakers from various high schools who vied for the title, he said good communicators make good lawyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday, students from the Marianas High School, Mt. Carmel and Marianas Baptist Academy will don the robe designed for the justices during a mock trial at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}