By Benjamin Cisneros

The Big Case at the Y&G Conference

Austin, TX – The big case this year that mock trial delegates will debate on is the case of “the confused cop”. On the night of November 25th, 2022 Officer Alex Greene responded to a high-priority call to the residence of Kamari Jenkins. He ended up shooting her and she ended up passing away, the prosecution looks to indict Officer Greene for the murder of Kamari Jenkins. The sequence of events on that night is as follows. The Mustang police department received a call about a possible burglary by a concerned neighbor.

Officer Alex Greene took the lead and responded to the call, he was joined by fellow officer Leighton Shields. They both scan the perimeter of the property and Officer Alex Greene ends up in a very dark backyard where he frantically spots Ms. Jenkins through a window and proceeds to fire his firearm in “self-defense” and she collapses on the ground. Officer Greene enters the home through the front door as he sees that it is cracked open. Once he enters the home he notices that the house is all out of sorts as if it had just been burglarized. He finds Ms. Jenkins on the ground with a firearm in her hand, officer Greene begins chest compressions but as it is too late she unfortunately passes away. The witnesses for the defense (Alex Greene) are as follows, Alex Greene, the defendant. Dr. Bellamy Frey, a police training expert.

Finally, Ferrin Glass, the next-door neighbor who made the call to the police worried for Ms. Jenkins. The witnesses for the prosecution (the state of Texas) are Sage Alexander, the eleven-year-old niece of Kamari Jenkins who witnessed her aunt being shot. Leighton Shields, the officer who went to back up Officer Greene. The last witness is Dr. Breslin Barajas, the medical examiner. Delegates debated deliberately and have made cases for both sides. In the case I witnessed, the two teams were at a standoff. In the end, the State won with a count of serious bodily injury to the victim, the defendant was found guilty. The trial was intense and full of arguments, questioning, and intricate investigation.