{"id":131831,"date":"2026-03-07T01:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131831\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T01:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:06:09","slug":"students-get-first-hand-experience-in-mock-trial-before-pennsylvania-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131831\/","title":{"rendered":"Students get first-hand experience in mock trial before Pennsylvania Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (WHTM) \u2014 The Pennsylvania Supreme Court heard quite a case Friday. Sort of.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Supreme Court justices educated and entertained students at the court\u2019s Philadelphia area courthouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Students from a local elementary school took part in a mock trial about the 1804 duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cYour honor, ladies and gentlemen of the court, we would like to announce that the jury is deadlocked,\u201d Justice Kevin M. Dougherty said. \u201cThat means we have to do this trial again. The prosecution has to go back and decide whether you want to re-prosecute Mr. Burr for the same offense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abc27.com\/streaming\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Download the abc27 News+ app on your Roku, Amazon Fire TV Stick, Apple TV devices;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Download the abc27 News+ app on your Roku, Amazon Fire TV Stick, Apple TV devices<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/abc27.com\/streaming\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:, and newer Samsung Smart TVs.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">, and newer Samsung Smart TVs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The judges then talked to the students about the strengths and weaknesses of the cases they presented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (WHTM) \u2014 The Pennsylvania Supreme Court heard quite a case Friday. Sort of. Supreme Court justices&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61147,61148,61146,28,30,29,8109,5020,6651],"class_list":["post-131831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-alexander-hamilton","tag-ladies-and-gentlemen","tag-mock-trial","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-supreme-court","tag-supreme-court-justices","tag-whtm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}