The Twenty-Sixth Annual CUNY Moot Court Summer Competition will be taking place online on Saturday, September 18th.  The Final Round between the top two teams is scheduled for 1 p.m. and is open to members of the CUNY Law School community. This year, the presiding justices are S.D.N.Y. Magistrate Judge (ret.) James C. Francis IV, N.Y. County Supreme Court Judge Gerald Lebovits, Professor Chaumtoli Huq, and Professor Donna Lee.

This year’s problem, written by CUNY students, asks the teams to argue two issues before the Supreme Court: (1) whether a prosecutor may use the silence of a criminal defendant who is in custody but has not been given Miranda warnings as substantive evidence of guilt at trial; and (2) whether the defendant’s actions of verbally threatening and brandishing a weapon towards victims during a robbery and telling them not to move constitutes “physical restraint” under U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 2B3.1, and thereby subjects the defendant to the statute’s sentence enhancement penalty for physical restraint during a robbery.

RSVP to attend the arguments over Zoom