Joe Maher

Assignment/Activity TitleCap Court Year Sophomore

Skill Creative Portfolio Category Critical Reasoning





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The assignment, Cap Court, is where everyone gets in groups and
becomes either lawyers or witnesses in a court case. Then a fake court case occurs with
the lawyers and witnesses then the people, who arent involved in the case, become the
jury and decide the outcome. My court case was about a woman, who was filmed for a
movie called, Desert warrior, but her film was put into a movie called, Innocence of
Muslims, an anti-Islam film that incited riots in the Middle East. I was a lawyer and for
this I had to do research about the topic and the witnesses so that we would have all the
right questions to ask. Most of the time was used prepping the questions and the
witnesses. I learned a lot about court and what lawyers have to do, it was very interesting
and I really liked the argument part in the court case.

This assignment was very important for me to put in my portfolio because it was
very interesting to me and it was the first interdisciplinary project that really got to me. I
worked very hard for this project so that my side would win the case, even though the
jury voted against our side. But this assignment makes me very proud because it was my
first time having any practice doing any lawyering and arguing in a real way and I feel
like I did a very good job on it.

This assignment really showed off my strengths and my weaknesses in many
ways. It showed off my ability to prepare well and m ability to argue points, but it also
showed my weakness in being spontaneous, when something went wrong for my team
and I had to go off script, the questions werent as well created. But overall this project
was great and I am very proud of it.