Moot Court Blues--Episode 9

Our team had to make a motion for a new trial last week, but the "judge"--our teacher--ruled against us. As he explained when we earlier lost our case, we just had bad facts. And as the saying goes, "bad facts make bad law." So it was an exercise in futility; in real life we would have never made this motion. But it was an exercise in practice for us. We are also going back over the rules of civil procedure, criminal procedure, and evidence in moot court. Although it is easy to complain about that, as it is just more reading we have to do, it is valuable. Going over the rules again at this point is a bonus, as we will need to know the info for the bar exam.