Winning Team of Mock Trial 2025 | Nottingham High School

In a close final, Syracuse’s Nottingham High School beat New York City’s Hunter College High School to win the New York State Bar Association Mock Trial Competition. Teams faced off in the fictional civil case, Leyton Manns vs. Sandy Townes, in which school Superintendent Leyton Manns accused student Sandy Townes of creating AI-generated content to derail the superintendent’s career and state Senate campaign. This was supposedly in retaliation for the superintendent cutting funding for the high school’s Computer Science Club. Nottingham High School represented the plaintiff while Hunter College High School took the side of the defense. Visit https://nysba.org/nys-mock-trial/ to learn more about the NYS Mock Trial Tournament