{"id":440,"date":"2012-03-13T20:37:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T00:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/13\/ney-mock-trial-tournament-opens-with-visit-from-justice-sandra-day-oconnor\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:23:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:23:24","slug":"ney-mock-trial-tournament-opens-with-visit-from-justice-sandra-day-oconnor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/ney-mock-trial-tournament-opens-with-visit-from-justice-sandra-day-oconnor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ney Mock Trial Tournament opens with visit from retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Justice Sandra Day O'Connor<\/p><\/div>\n

MARCH 21, 2012
\nby Vince Moore, Media Relations<\/p>\n

GREENVILLE, S.C.\u2014The participants in the Carol N. Ney National Mock Trial Tournament at Furman University this weekend will get a little more legal counsel than they were expecting when retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O\u2019Connor gives some brief remarks at the opening ceremony of the tournament Friday, March 23.<\/p>\n

The opening ceremony runs from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium, and Justice O\u2019Connor will offer greetings and words of encouragement to the mock trial students.\u00a0 She is expected to speak for approximately 10 minutes at the ceremony.<\/p>\n

The university community, as well as the public, is invited to attend.\u00a0 Justice O\u2019Connor is visiting Greenville this week as part of a 4th Circuit Court of Appeals panel that will hear cases Thursday and Friday in the federal courthouse.<\/p>\n

The American Mock Trial Association selected Furman as one of eight sites across the nation to host opening rounds of the 2012 national championship tournament, which will be held in Minneapolis, Minn. in April.<\/p>\n

Twenty-four teams representing eighteen colleges and universities will compete in the Ney National March 23-25, including Duke, Emory, Harvard, Princeton, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Washington & Lee. Round I trials begin shortly after the opening ceremony, and all trials are open to the public.<\/p>\n

Furman trustee Jim Ney and his wife, Carol, will present this year\u2019s tournament where students, portraying witness or attorney roles, simulate a criminal trial. Both are Furman alumni.<\/p>\n

A total of 192 teams nationwide will compete in opening rounds for one of 48 bids to the championship finals. Furman will field two teams in the Ney National for a chance to win its 16th consecutive berth in the finals.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Connor became the first woman to serve as a justice on the United States Supreme Court in 1981.\u00a0 She served for 24 years before retiring from the court on Jan. 31, 2006.\u00a0 In 2009, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama.<\/p>\n

The Furman mock trial teams are coached by graduates Steven Buckingham \u201803, Lindsay Builder \u201807, Mark Fessler \u201805, Mitchell Goldsmith \u201806, D. Brad Rustin \u201903, and Dawn Williams \u201805. Thomas Azar, legal advisor Angie Littlejohn, and Brent Tucker also serve as coaches.<\/p>\n

For more information about the event, contact Glen Halva-Neubauer, director of Furman\u2019s mock trial program, at 864-294-3608, or glen.halva-neubauer@furman.edu. Additional information can also be found at http:\/\/www.furmanmocktrial.org\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MARCH 21, 2012
\nby Vince Moore, Media Relations<\/p>\n

The participants in the Carol N. Ney National Mock Trial Tournament at Furman this weekend will get a little more legal counsel than they were expecting when retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O\u2019Connor gives some brief remarks at the opening ceremony of the event Friday, March 23. \u00a0The opening ceremony runs from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium, and Justice O\u2019Connor will speak for approximately 10 minutes. \u00a0The university community, as well as the public, is invited to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}