Yesterday I went to the Derksen federal building on a field trip.I went with my class.We were going there since our class was learning American government and we were doing a mock trial.One of my classmates mom is an attorney and got us an actual trial room.The case was an hour long. I was one of the seven defense attorneys defending abercrombie & fish .It was a hung jury which means no one won the case.The vote was 8-1 in which my team had one.It was really fun and we got to eat lunch after the case.This is the case.
The Problem of SpongeBob RoundPants
Mock Trial Script
Participants:
Judge (Ellys and Christopher) Bailiff (aiden) Plaintiff’s Attorney (7 students) Defendant’s Attorney (7 students including me) SpongeBob SquarePants (Plaintiff) (Caden) Patrick (kaleb) Mr. Krabs (kayan) Abercrombie & Fish representatives (Defendant) (joy) Jurors (all students without scripted parts) Jury Foreperson (one of jurors elected by jurors or appointed)(Darryl) The Problem: On August 24, 2005, SpongeBob SquarePants decided to go to the new Abercrombie & Fish store in Bikini Bottom to order a new designer pair of square pants. Since Abercrombie & Fish were fresh out of the new designer pants at the time SpongeBob purchased them, Abercrombie & Fish promised to deliver to SpongeBob’s pineapple house the square pants as soon as they arrived in the store. About a week later, SpongeBob received a package from Abercrombie & Fish. He tore into the package, expecting to find square pants, but instead found a pair of round pants. Not knowing what to do, SpongeBob asked his best friend, Patrick, for advice. Patrick told SpongeBob that the round pants would fit SpongeBob just right if a few changes were made to the pants. Patrick helped SpongeBob make a few minor alterations and then SpongeBob tried on the pants. To SpongeBob’s disappointment and Patrick’s complete shock, the pants still didn’t fit. SpongeBob decided to return the pants to Abercrombie & Fish since they weren’t really what he ordered to begin with. The store refused to accept the pants back since SpongeBob and Patrick had altered them. SpongeBob argued that no changes would have had to been made if the store delivered the right pants to begin with. The store didn’t budge. Remembering that Mr. Krabs was so good with money, SpongeBob decided to ask him for advice. Mr. Krabs, barely looking up from counting his own money, suggested to SpongeBob that he should sue Abercrombie & Fish to get his money back. Not knowing what else to do, SpongeBob sued Abercrombie & Fish.