Fall 2019 Ira S. Flory Mock Trial Competition champions Miguel Robles-Coles and Jesse Elliott
LSU Law students Jesse Elliott and Miguel Robles-Coles narrowly defeated fellow students Kaitlyn Mistretta and Jordan Tambara to win the Fall 2019 Ira S. Flory Mock Trial Competition finals on Sept. 23 at the LSU Law Center.
The finals were judged by an esteemed panel including 19th Judicial District Judge Fred T. Crifasi, East Baton Rouge Parish District Defender Michael A. Mitchell and East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar C. Moore III, and the event concluded a month of intense competition among 26 student teams.
The Flory Mock Trial Competition is an internal advocacy competition in which student teams present a full mock trial—including opening statements, witness examinations, evidentiary presentations and closing arguments—before panels of attorney evaluators. For this fall’s competition, second- and third-year students took up the hypothetical case of the State of Louisiana v. Jonah Ryan, in which the prosecution alleges that the defendant committed an assault by drive-by shooting in the early morning hours of April 2, 2018.
