Victoria Price is on trial for perjury (lying while under oath). You are the prosecutor (the lawyer trying to prove her guilty). Your job: write "closing arguments" (a.k.a. summation) that will persuade the jury to vote guilty.

1. Fill out the info sheet "What Happened in Scottsboro" using the information on the main webpage. You should not click on any link to find an answer!
2. Research: Fill out the info sheet: Proving Price Lied.
   1. First, read Price's 1931 testimony and fill in the as many "What did Price say in 1931" boxes as you can.
   2. THEN go to Price's 1933 testimony and fill out the "Price - 1933" boxes.
   3. Do the same with the testimonies of Bridges, Bates, and Carter.
   4. Be sure to read the testimony from beginning to end and fill out as many boxes as you can. You will have to jump around the info sheet because the lawyer will change subjects, trying to confuse her. So he might ask her one question about her marital status, then switch to her physical condition after the alleged "rape," then ask another question about her husband.
      1. If you are good with computers, you might do this online. Just cut the testimony and paste into the right box in the "Evidence" info sheet. Save it onto a disk, and print a copy just to be safe.

In this essay you will prove Price is guilty by finding three or more places where her testimony doesn't make sense, where she says one thing in 1931 and something different in 1933, or where someone else has a story very different from hers.

1. You may follow this outline or click here for the fill-in-the-blank version.
• Introduction: Say that you are going to prove that Price is guilty of perjury (lying under oath).
• First Evidence: Choose your strongest evidence (from your handout). Tell us what Price and the other people said about this subject. Explain why this evidence proves that she lies.
• Second Evidence: Choose your third-strongest piece of evidence (from your handout). Tell us what Price and the other people said about this subject. Explain why this evidence proves that she lies.
• Third Evidence: Choose your second-best piece of evidence (from your handout). Tell us what Price and the other people said about this subject. Explain why this evidence proves that she lies.
• Conclusion: Summarize all three pieces of evidence and ask the jury to vote guilty.

• Hint: Read the excerpts of the closing arguments of real-life defense attorney Samuel Leibowitz to get some ideas about how it's done.