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
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
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
Northeast Area
Lowell City Hall
1/25/2024: Tewksbury Memorial High School v. Lowell High School
Metrowest Area
Milford District Court
2/1/2024: Franklin High School v. Hopedale Jr Sr 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.