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Show Debate students join in mock trial School. This activity requires active preparation by the whole debate squad, competition by eleven squad members and coaching by a local attorney. Mr. Dennis Wilson was attorney coach this year; "mock" attorneys were Chris Alldridge, Matthew Hamby and Le Ann Wimmer. These students were praised highly for their individual performance. Other students participating were Shane Driggs, Clay Fenton, Jalaine Humphrey, Nathan Jaynes, Nicole Lindsay, Brian Roberts, Tawn Thornton and Sally Turner. Helen Carbine is debate coach. The Pleasant Grove High School debate team has just completed a second year of mock trial competition. com-petition. The statewide competition is sponsored by the Utah Law-related Law-related and Citizenship Education Program, under the direction of Nancy N. Matthews, director, and Virginia Curtis-Lee, Esq., coordinator, coor-dinator, for the purpose of acquainting students with law practices and courtroom procedures. This year there were 64 teams participating, and each team competed twice, acting once as prosecution and once as defense. The Pleasant Grove squad acted as prosecution on March 31 in the ' Provo Circuit Court against Mountainview High School, winning the case, but losing by a narrow margin of points. The second event was played on April 13 in the 5th ' District Court in Salt Lake City. In the second playoff, defense, the Pleasant Grove group narrowly lost the case, but won in points by a wide margin against Layton High |