Sixth Grade Mock Trial
The True Story of the Three Pigs

The case of the United States verses Alexander L. Wolf

The trial of Alexander L Wolf concerns an incident on February 28, 2002 in which the defendent was indicted with the charge of malicious destruction which resulted in the lost of two homes.

The Honorable Judge James Young presided. He informed the audience and jury that an indictment simply means their was " probable cause". Only a slim margin 51% is needed for indictment; now the prosecution must prove that he is guilty. He explained that the level of guilt is with 99% certainty. Also the level of intent must be proved. In other word this was done on purpose; it was not accidental. He went on to explain in addition that the defense does not have to prove innocence.

The prosecution began by calling the three pigs as witnesses. All three stated that Alexander Wolf came to their door with a cup or something in his hand and had a threatening attitude. The first pig was afraid of being eaten, the second pig said his house was blow up, and the third pig said that Alexander said, "Your granny can go sit on a pin" , and he really had an attitude.

Doctor F. Robles testified that he had seen Alexander Wolf in April and he was perfectly healthy, was not on any medications and had no allergies. In fact every time he saw Mr. Wolf he was not sick.

Detective Temesghen testified that he saw Mr. Wolf on top of the pig's house while the place was surrounded. Then he said he saw the wolf running away from the scene of the damaged houses into the woods. Although his testimony was a little confusing, he felt that the wolf definitely looked and acted guilty. The detective who arrested Mr. Wolf, Detective LePrentis, testified that he saw the wolf climbing a ladder to the chimney of the third pig's house,

Ms. Robinson, the lead forensic examiner, stated that sneezing powder and a handkerchief were found at the site of the first and second pigs' houses. The handkerchief proved positive for the wolf's DNA. She found little pieces of sneezing powder on the leaves surrounding all the houses. She stated that these items were probably used "to blow the houses down."
The defense in cross examination established three points.

First that there was no evidence of any explosives found at the sites of the three pigs' houses.

Second, that one of the detectives was prejudiced against wolves because his father was eaten by a wolf.

Third, besides sneezing powder, a few burnt things and a heater were found by the investigators which could have indicated a fire had caused the damage.

Thus the defense made a motion to have the case thrown out since there was not enough evidence to continue. The motion was denied by the judge since only a 51% level of evidence was needed to move forward and he felt this percentage was met by the prosecution..

The defense then called to the witness stand Granny Amanda Wolf, Alex's grandmother. She stated that her grandson was preparing a cake for her when he ran out of sugar. He went to the pig's house to borrow some and was treated rudely. He had a cold at the time. This was also repeated by Alexander Wolf himself. He was very insulted with the pig's statement "your granny can go sit on a pin" when he requested a favor, but he did nothing wrong. His cold caused him to have a sneezing fit.

Closing summaries were presented and were very impressive.

The jury of ten men and women adjourned for only a few minutes before coming back with a verdict of NOT GUILTY.

Many thanks go to the members of Noble for their involvement with our school and the sixth graders in particular. This is an event that the upper grade students look forward to each year.

As stated by a sixth graders, "I really liked doing the mock trial about the three little pigs. I was the first pig. It was fun making the audience laugh. But I thought it was cool of you, working adults, taking time out of your day to help us."

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