{"id":15014,"date":"2014-04-07T14:18:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T18:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/?p=15014"},"modified":"2014-04-07T14:18:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T18:18:05","slug":"stetson-students-win-national-voir-dire-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2014\/04\/07\/stetson-students-win-national-voir-dire-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Stetson students win National Voir Dire Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stetson University College of Law\u2019s trial team of Ashley Goodman, Khalil Madani and Victoria San Pedro won the <a href=\"http:\/\/law.umkc.edu\/show-me-challenge\/schedule.asp\" target=\"_blank\">National Voir Dire Tournament<\/a> on April 5 in Kansas City, Mo. The team also won the professionalism award in the competition.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15023\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15023\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-11-e1396889191853.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15023 \" alt=\"(L-R): University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law professor and advocacy director S. Rafe Foreman, Khalil Madani, Ashley Goodman, and Victoria San Pedro. Photo by University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law visiting professor L. Michaelle Tobin.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-11-e1396889191853-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R): University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law professor and advocacy director S. Rafe Foreman, Khalil Madani, Ashley Goodman, and Victoria San Pedro. Photo by University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law visiting professor L. Michaelle Tobin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Goodman was named Best Advocate and San Pedro was named Best Chair in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Murray &#8217;08, Stetson\u2019s advocacy center director Professor Charles Rose and Erika Wilson &#8217;12 coached the winning team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur students were chosen by their peers as the best in professionalism and excellence, two qualities that distinguish advocates as the very best,\u201d said Professor of Excellence in Trial Advocacy Rose.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen teams from around the country competed.<\/p>\n<p>Stetson\u2019s trial advocacy program is regularly recognized as the best in the country by U.S. News &amp; World Report.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about advocacy at Stetson, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/advocacy\" target=\"_blank\">www.stetson.edu\/law\/advocacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stetson University College of Law\u2019s trial team of Ashley Goodman, Khalil Madani and Victoria San Pedro won the National Voir Dire Tournament on April 5 in Kansas City, Mo. The team also won the professionalism award in the competition. Goodman was named Best Advocate and San Pedro was named Best Chair in the competition. Joseph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[8,311,758,1190,829],"class_list":["post-15014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-1","category-student-features","tag-advocacy","tag-competition","tag-professionalism","tag-stetson-today","tag-trial-team"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Stetson students win National Voir Dire Tournament - Stetson Law News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2014\/04\/07\/stetson-students-win-national-voir-dire-tournament\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stetson students win National Voir Dire Tournament - Stetson Law News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Stetson University College of Law\u2019s trial team of Ashley Goodman, Khalil Madani and Victoria San Pedro won the National Voir Dire Tournament on April 5 in Kansas City, Mo. 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