This school year, a mock trial program in California is helping 10,000 students from 36 counties to learn about the U.S. legal system. By some accounts, the program - which started small 35 years ago at a handful of Los Angeles high schools - has been life changing.
More than 1,000 judges, commissioners, and attorneys volunteer as coaches, presiders, and scorers for the program, run by the nonprofit Constitutional Rights Foundation. This month each county will send its...
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