The Massachusetts Bar Association's 2024 High School Mock Trial Program is looking for attorneys to serve as judges during the second and third weeks of trials (Jan. 15-19 and Jan. 22-26). All trials will begin at 1:30 p.m.
If you are interested in volunteering to act as a judge in a trial, please contact us. All judges will be provided case materials, a link to the Jan. 4 Judges' Orientation recording and all pertinent information in advance of the scheduled trials.
Judges are currently needed for the following trials:
Boston Area
Newton District Court
1/25/2024: Maimonides School v. Newton South High School
Somerville District Court
1/25/2024: Malden High School v. Malden Catholic High School
1/30/2024: Malden Catholic High School v. Everett High School
Southeast Area
Attleboro District Court
1/25/2024: Attleboro High School v. Bishop Feehan High School
Barnstable District Court
1/22/2024: Sturgis East Charter Public School v. Monomoy Regional High School
1/23/2024: Nauset Regional High School v. Sturgis West Charter Public School
1/29/2024: Monomoy Regional High School v. Nauset Regional High School
Fall River District Court
1/23/2024: Atlantis Charter School v. Joseph Case High School
1/24/2024: Old Rochester Regional High School v. Argosy Collegiate Charter School
1/30/2024: Joseph Case High School v. Old Rochester Regional High School
1/31/2024: Argosy Collegiate Charter School v. Atlantis Charter School
Hingham District Court
1/30/2024: Carver High School v. Marshfield High School
Stoughton District Court
1/29/2024: Oliver Ames High School v. Mansfield High School
1/30/2024: Sharon High School v. Cardinal Spellman High School
Taunton District Court
1/31/2024: Bishop Feehan High School v. Foxborough Regional Charter School
2/1/2024: Foxborough High School v. Attleboro High School
Northeast Area
Chelsea District Court
1/31/2024: Lynnfield High School v. Revere High School
Lowell City Hall
1/25/2024: Tewksbury Memorial High School v. Lowell High School
1/31/2024: Chelmsford High School v. Tewksbury Memorial High School
Massachusetts School Of Law, Andover
1/22/2024: Andover High School v. Wilmington High School
Newburyport District Court
1/26/2024: Newburyport High School v. The Academy at Penguin Hall
2/1/2024: Manchester Essex Regional Middle High School v. Newburyport High School
2/2/2024: The Academy at Penguin Hall v. Danvers High School
Saugus Town Hall
1/22/2024: Danvers High School v. Manchester Essex Regional Middle High School
Metrowest Area
Framingham District Court
1/26/2024: Natick High School v. Wayland High School
2/1/2024: Needham High School v. Natick High School
Milford District Court
1/31/2024: Millis High School v. Medfield High School
2/1/2024: Franklin High School v. Hopedale Jr Sr High School
Westborough District Court
1/25/2024: Shrewsbury Sr High School v. Keefe Regional Technical School
1/26/2024: Hopkinton High School v. St. John’s High School
Waltham City Hall
2/2/2024: Belmont High School v. Arlington Catholic High School
Woburn District Court
1/26/2024: Melrose High School v. Winchester High School
Central Area
Ayer District Court
1/25/2024: Fitchburg High School v. Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School
Western Area
Palmer District Court
1/29/2024: The MacDuffie School v. Tantasqua Regional Senior High School
U.S.D.C. for the District of Massachusetts, Western Division, Springfield
1/24/2024: Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School v. Minnechaug Regional High School
1/31/2024: Minnechaug Regional High School v. Longmeadow High School
This year, the teams are presented with a criminal case,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Maiyer Wahl. On Dec. 3, 2022, the defendant, Maiyer Wahl, alleges that they went to the house of Sal Badgerow for the purpose of repaying a debt they owed to Badgerow. The defendant alleges that when they arrived, they were robbed, beaten and stabbed at Badgerow’s house, and then kidnapped and dumped by the side of the road in Dober, Massachusetts. The prosecution alleges that the defendant broke into Badgerow’s house at night with the intent to steal money (to wit, approximately $15,000) and that Wahl fabricated the kidnapping to implicate Badgerow criminally and avoid the obligation to repay the debt owed to Badgerow. The defendant has been charged with burglary, larceny and filing a false police report.
Interested in one of these open trials? You can sign up by either contacting Mock Trial Central directly or logging into the Mock Trial website using your member number and password. The link is:
https://www.massbar.org/mock-trial/judge-info/open-trials.
Questions? Please contact Mock Trial Central via
email.