Philip A. Harley Memorial Mock Trial Competition

Congratulations to Piedmont High School--2021 Alameda County Mock Trial Champions! 

The 2020-21 Mock Trial season came to an exciting conclusion  as Piedmont High edged Bishop O’Dowd to become the 2020-21 Alameda County Champions, and thus advance to the CA State competition.  To get to the finals, Piedmont squeezed by a talented Amador Valley team, and, in a season marked by an unusual level of parity, O’Dowd held off perennial contender Moreau Catholic by an astonishingly close margin.  

Watch the 2021 Alameda County Mock Trial Finals

Despite the uncertainty due to the pandemic (and a few bumps along the way)--and in large part thanks to your incredible flexibility and patience--teams representing 14 High Schools from across Alameda County successfully pivoted to a virtual competition this year due, thus enabling over 250 students to benefit from the unique college, career and civic readiness that Mock Trial provides.  Over 30 team coaches, 75 senior legal professionals from across the Bay Area, and a dozen ACOE staff members volunteered tirelessly this year to make the program a success.

2020-21 Team Competition Results

• Alameda County Champions: Piedmont High School
• Alameda County Runner-Up: Bishop O’Dowd High School
• Alameda County Semi Finalists: Moreau Catholic High School, Amador Valley High School

2020-21 Team Spirit Award Winners

• Albany High: Mavi Hodoglugil
• Amador Valley High: Anjali Ramesh
• American High: Abigail Galang Manalese, Aarthi Kannan, Azaan Sharif
• Bishop O'Dowd High: Aasha Krishnan
• Granada High: Benjamin Mock
• Irvington High: Sruthi Putcha
• Leadership Public HS, Oakland: Zinna Thomas, Alexandra Perez Lopez
• Mission San Jose High: Andrew Liang, Shameet Sharma
• Moreau Catholic High: Harveen Kaur
• Oakland School for the Arts: Alessandra Mohar
• Oakland Tech High: Caroline Pers, Daisy Amador-Pena
• Piedmont High: Anthony Wong, Emma Broening
• Saint Mary's College High: Chaelyn Rigmaiden-Anderson, Nadia Ghanbari

2020-21 Individual Award Winners

• Competitor of the Year: Brooke Nunes, Moreau Catholic
• Prosecution Pre-Trial Attorney
  • 1^st Place (tie): Daisy Amador Pena, Oakland Tech; Maya McCall, Oakland School for the Arts
  • 2^nd Place (tie): Jasai Martinez, Leadership Public Schools; Aasha Krishnan, Bishop O’Dowd
  • 3^rd Place (tie): Mira Steinberg, Saint Mary’s College High; Anthony Wong, Piedmont High; Shuchi Parikh, Amador Valley High
• Defense Pre-Trial Attorney
  • 1^st Place: Caroline Pers, Oakland Tech
  • 2^nd Place: Benjamin Mock, Granada High
  • 3^rd Place (tie): Izzy Tokarz, Bishop O’Dowd, Alessandra Mohar, Oakland School for the Arts

• Prosecuting Attorney
  • 1^st Place: Krithik Varghese, Irvington High
  • 2^nd Place: Léo Corzo-Clark, Albany High
  • 3^rd Place (tie): Adam Abdul-Rahim, Bishop O’Dowd; Gia Oscherwitz, Granada High

• Defense Attorney

• • 1^st Place: Aasha Krishnan, Bishop O’Dowd
  • 2^nd Place (tie): Avery Forristal, Bishop O’Dowd; Brooke Nunes, Moreau Catholic
  • 3^rd Place (tie): Spencer Paik, Berkeley High; Jasia Martinez, Leadership Public Schools

• Prosecution Witness
  • 1^st Place: Aidan Hollinger-Miles, Bishop O’Dowd
  • 2^nd Place (tie): Emmet Grout, Oakland Tech, Brandon Bazile, Saint Mary’s College High
  • 3^rd Place (tie): Sruthi Putcha, Irvington High; Harveen Kaur, James Mira, Moreau Catholic
• Defense Witness
  • 1^st Place: Jay Krishnan, Bishop O’Dowd
  • 2^nd Place: Adam Abdul-Rahim, Bishop O’Dowd
  • 3^rd Place (tie): Esha Shah, Amador Valley High; Joycelyn Hutchinson, Moreau Catholic
• Clerk
  • 1^st Place: Ela Mutaf, Amador Valley High
• Courtroom Artist
  • 1^st Place (tie): Lily Cheng, Andrea Yang, Amador Valley High
• Courtroom Journalist
  • 1^st Place (tie): Trisha Khattar (3^rd Place at State), Edward Ding, Amador Valley High

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Congratulations to American High School, Fremont, 2019-20 County Champions!

Watch the 2019-20 Alameda County Mock Trial Finals!

Congratulations to American High School in Fremont, whose Mock Trial team took first place in the 2020 Philip A. Harley Memorial Mock Trial Competition.

In an epic, remarkably evenly matched final round, American High School eked out a victory over the defending champion Moreau Catholic! Of the 1686 points awarded by the 5 scorers, American earned 850 to Moreau’s 836. This one will go down as one for the ages.

Heartfelt congratulations to both teams! Moreau displayed all of the skill and grace reflective of the true champions that they are, and American proved that with hard work and determination, anything is possible. Truly a remarkable performance by both teams. And now let’s wish American the best of luck as they advance to the State competition in Los Angeles (March 20-22). We know they will represent Alameda County well.

Courtroom Art Competition

This year we had 5 submissions for the Courtroom Artist competition. Like the regular Mock Trial competition, the quality of these submissions was remarkably high. After a thorough jury process, here are the final results:

• First Place (tie): Jocelyn Tao, Foothill High; and Carson Moses, Moreau Catholic
• Third Place: Gianna Nguyen, Moreau Catholic
• Honorable Mentions: Sophia Choi, Amador Valley and Lily Cheng, Amador Valley

Based on these results, Jocelyn and Carson qualify to advance to the State competition, where we are confident they will be strong contenders.

Journalism Competition

This year we had two exceedingly strong Journalism submissions. Here are the results of the jurying process:

• First Place: Trisha Khattar, Amador Valley
• Second Place: Edward Ding, Amador Valley

Both Trisha and Edward qualify to advance to the State competition in LA, where, like their artist peers, we're sure they will represent Alameda County well.

Congrats to all submitters, and best of luck to Jocelyn, Carson, Trisha and Edward at States!