Mock trial with Sandra Day O'Connor and William Rehnquist.

Mock Lizzie Borden Trial on C-Span

This oldie but goodie, from September 16, 1997, and posted on C-SPAN. It cannot be embedded here, but you can go watch the 90 minute show here.

Note the judges: William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O’Connor.

This moot court concerned the case of Lizzie Borden, who in 1892 was accused of murdering her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. She was later acquitted of the murders.This tribunal was made up of Supreme Court justices and Stanford law professors. Professor Sullivan served as the trial’s narrator.

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Babcock, Barbara Allen
Fisher, George
O’Connor, Sandra Day
Ogletree, Charles J. Jr.
Rehnquist, William H.
Robertson, Cara
Sullivan, Kathleen M.
Weisberg, Robert
Wilson, Julia
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Stanford University | Law School

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