Day 4: Activity & Mr. Keating

Aubrey Dawkins

Today we continued our insightful talk with Mr. Keating, the defense attorney who kindly came and spoke with us. It's interesting how his interpretation of the laws are so different from the judge and prosecutors because his job entails that you get your client off the hook to be successful. He knows right from wrong, but that does not matter, his job is only too fight the charges at every turn possible.

Later in the day we did an activity as a group where we set up a court room, and acted out 3 different cases that we created. It was a great success all in all. Obviously it's not going to be as authentic as actual court cases, but it did have many characteristics of an actual court room. Such as the transfer of information from client to attorney, reasonable charges and sentencing and also correct term use, which sounds simple in this area of expertise that's a very big deal.