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Judge Rayner V. Snead came out of retirement to take his old seat on the Circuit Court bench with Gerk Diane Bruce at her post beside him and Sheriff W. A. Buntin there to provide security.
But the faces around the counsel table in the courtroom last Wednesday belonged to Rappahannock students, not local lawyers.
Divided into defense and prosecution teams, witnesses and defendants, the youngsters were in court for a mock trial, the culmination of the gifted and talented program’s law seminar.
With assistance from county attorneys Dave Konick, Mike Hubbard, Bill Fletcher. Doug Baumgardner, Sharon Geneback Luke and Peter Luke, the kids had researched and prepared arguments based on an actual Rappahannock case.
It was apparent from the start, however, that names had been changed.
After listening to an hour of testimony. Judge Snead found Phil Oneous innocent of second degree murder. Oneous was charged in the death of Sam Smerkle in an incident which occurred at 9:30 p.m. in an unspecified place on an unspecified date.
The prosecution team argued that Oneous hit Smerkle on the head with an electric guitar and that the blow was the cause of death.
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