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Apr. 17, 2024
LAUSD students learn about civil jury trials in mock trial event
The program aimed to introduce students to the Seventh Amendment and the right to a civil jury trial, while also exposing them to some of the best trial lawyers in the state.
Who was responsible for injuring the baseball fan at Dodger Stadium? Questions of that ilk aren't exactly unprecedented within the walls of Los Angeles County Superior Court's Stanley Mosk Courthouse.
A jury consisting entirely of students from the Los Angeles Unified School District appointed to decide it? Well, that's more unusual.
So it was Thursday, when a group of approximately 180 students from six diffe...