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Invictus Advocacy Academy takes 5th place at Florida High School Mock Trial Competition
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
A seven-member homeschool team from Invictus Advocacy Academy took fifth place in the annual Florida High School Mock Trial Competition.
Team Invictus, coached by attorney Maria Gerber of Gerber Law, PA and teacher coach Lisa James, represented the 12th Judicial Circuit in the four-day, virtual, statewide competition. Fourteen teams competed from various state judicial circuits in trial simulations that were judged by administrative, county and circuit judges.
The defendant in the “case” was charged with first-degree murder for allegedly killing a high school friend who worked for a Corporation that the defendant blamed for his wife’s untimely death.
I have been involved with the Florida High School Mock Trial effort for a few years. My interest began long ago in a far away galaxy called Jacksonville Beach. A member of the Jacksonville Bar Board of Governors put me in touch with a fellow named Ed Lange who taught at the high school there. He was teaching debate and trial skills to teenagers, and had constructed a courtroom in his classroom to facilitate it. I was privileged to get the nickel tour and was inspired by what he was doing. The Florida Law Related Education Association (FLREA) had just begun in 1991.