LA+Essay+CO

I was a prosecution lawyer in our mock trial of the Tail Tell Heart. Our job was to prove that the defendant was sane. We had to question witnesses’ questions that would help our case. We used direct quotes from the story to prove our points. I will tell you how we did all this and won.

I think our team did prove that the defendant was sane. One I thought he was sane because insanity means you do something on impulse and you can’t distinguish fantasy from reality. He did not do this act on impulse because in the story it says, “I did this for seven days and nights.” In this quote he is refers to how long he watched the old man sleeping. He was waiting, very calmly, to get the perfect time to kill him. If he was actually insane he would have done it without thinking but he had seven days to think it through and he could’ve turned back but he thought about it and didn’t.

Another reason I think he is sane is because he because he said, “You should’ve seen how wisely I proceeded, with what caution-with what foresight.” This is talking about him sneaking into the room. This proves that he is sane because an insane person isn’t patient and don’t know what they are doing. He obviously knew what he was doing if he knew well enough that he knew to open the door quietly and not be loud. He was also being very cautious meaning he knows of his surroundings and is aware that there may be a plank that when you step on it will creek so he can’t be in a fantasy is he is being cautious.

I think that we did deserve to win the case in the end because we brought our point across to the jury. We convinced them that he was sane which he is. He could not have been insane if he took seven days to think through a plan. He also could not be insane if he was very cautious when he did this crime. Although he was obviously guilty he was not insane.