Opening Moot Court Example

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Mr Chief Justice may it please the court, my name is . I represent the student Allie Monks in this case. We ask the Court to rule n favor of the Plaintiff Allie Monks. In dissimilarity to the case I bring to you today, the case of New Jersey v TLO, the court held the search of the 14 year old freshman was reasonable for Fourth Amendment purposes because the initial search for cigarettes was reasonable. The Vice Principle had reasonable suspicion the student would possess cigarettes in her purse from the testimony of a staff member of the school who reported seeing the student smoking on school grounds. The Vice Principal in this case had reasonable grounds for a search on school grounds because there was " a moderate chance of finding evidence of wrongdoing" which will void Fourth Amendment rights. In the case I bring to you today, the defendant Bill Cohen did not have any reasonable suspicion for the search of Allie Monk's purse and body for the alleged stolen prescription pills. Cohens only justification of Allie's theft was from a student who was described of being dishonest for personal and immoral gain. Cohen did not have any justifiable, probable, or reasonable causes for the search of Allie Monks unlike the Vice Principle in New Jersey v TLO who won their case they presented. In the case New Jersey v TLO, the Vice Principal did have probable cause to further search the student for marijuana because it was reasonably related in scope of the search which was for cigarettes. In our case, Cohan did not have a justifiable cause to search Monks purse where he did discover a pack of cigarets and answers to a math quiz to continue with a search of her arms, legs, torso, and waistband for prescription pills because of the items which was discovered (the cigarettes and quiz answers) and the actual reason for the search (prescription pills) was not related in

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