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Washington County students gather for a lesson in justice
by Outspoken on Fri Oct 31, 2008 6:04 am
Washington County students gather in Eastport for a lesson in justice
By Judy Harrison
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
EASTPORT, Maine — Shawn Kelley wants to be a lawyer.
So, the 17-year-old Machias Memorial High School student walked into the gym of Shead High School on Thursday prepared with a notepad and pens. It wasn't the legal-size pad of yellow-lined paper that attorneys use, but it was close enough.
“I love the way the law works,” he said. “I want to go to law school after college and work in state government or in the State House.”
Kelley of Whitneyville was one of more than a dozen students from Susan Albee's honors government class who traveled to Eastport to see the Maine Supreme Judicial Court convene in Washington County.
It was the first time the state's high court had visited Down East since it began visiting high schools around the state each fall in 2005. Eastport was its last stop on a five-school tour that began last week at Sanford High School in York County. The court also convened in Augusta, Winthrop and Bangor this week.
Albee said her class had prepared for the court's visit by reading the briefs that had been filed in the cases, but had not really understood all the “legalese” or the issues involved. By hearing the arguments and being able to question the lawyers after the arguments, she said, the students learned a lot more than by just reading the documents.
“It was very interesting,” said Kayla Wood, 16, of Machias, one of Albee's students. “I like how when the lawyers got up there [at the lectern], the justices just started asking them questions one right after the other and turning [the argument] around on the lawyers.”
The case that captivated the students was the appeal by Donna Hall of Dedham of a citation she was issued two years ago by a Maine state trooper for not registering her car in Maine. It was lawfully registered in Louisiana, Hall's attorney, Steven Juskewitch of Ellsworth, told the court.
The registration had not expired when she was issued the ticket by a neighbor who happens to be a trooper, the attorney told the court. Because she registers her car, votes and owns property in Louisiana, Hall is a resident of that state even though she lives in Maine most of the year, Juskewitch said.
http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/92282.html
BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTOS BY BRIDGET BROWN
By Judy Harrison
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
EASTPORT, Maine — Shawn Kelley wants to be a lawyer.
So, the 17-year-old Machias Memorial High School student walked into the gym of Shead High School on Thursday prepared with a notepad and pens. It wasn't the legal-size pad of yellow-lined paper that attorneys use, but it was close enough.
“I love the way the law works,” he said. “I want to go to law school after college and work in state government or in the State House.”
Kelley of Whitneyville was one of more than a dozen students from Susan Albee's honors government class who traveled to Eastport to see the Maine Supreme Judicial Court convene in Washington County.
It was the first time the state's high court had visited Down East since it began visiting high schools around the state each fall in 2005. Eastport was its last stop on a five-school tour that began last week at Sanford High School in York County. The court also convened in Augusta, Winthrop and Bangor this week.
Albee said her class had prepared for the court's visit by reading the briefs that had been filed in the cases, but had not really understood all the “legalese” or the issues involved. By hearing the arguments and being able to question the lawyers after the arguments, she said, the students learned a lot more than by just reading the documents.
“It was very interesting,” said Kayla Wood, 16, of Machias, one of Albee's students. “I like how when the lawyers got up there [at the lectern], the justices just started asking them questions one right after the other and turning [the argument] around on the lawyers.”
The case that captivated the students was the appeal by Donna Hall of Dedham of a citation she was issued two years ago by a Maine state trooper for not registering her car in Maine. It was lawfully registered in Louisiana, Hall's attorney, Steven Juskewitch of Ellsworth, told the court.
The registration had not expired when she was issued the ticket by a neighbor who happens to be a trooper, the attorney told the court. Because she registers her car, votes and owns property in Louisiana, Hall is a resident of that state even though she lives in Maine most of the year, Juskewitch said.
http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/92282.html
BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTOS BY BRIDGET BROWN
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