Local Alexandria Legal Team Teaches German Students
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Local Alexandria Legal Team Teaches German Students

Officer Camero, played by private investigator Fellman Cabero, confronts Sam Dworkin, playing a frustrated motorist. The video dramatization portrayed the facts of the mock jury exercise for Berlin law students and professors.

Officer Camero, played by private investigator Fellman Cabero, confronts Sam Dworkin, playing a frustrated motorist. The video dramatization portrayed the facts of the mock jury exercise for Berlin law students and professors.

A globetrotting legal team from Alexandria continues to lecture on American jurisprudence.

The latest adventure was at Germany's Humboldt University in Berlin.

Some 50 students and professors attended the five-day series that began Nov. 8, the historic election in the U.S.

This was the seventh international lecture tour since 2012 for the veteran practitioners of law in Northern Virginia.

The team included Alexandria's Joni Robin, an experienced public defender now in private practice; Cary Citronberg; defense attorney Chris Leibig; and investigator Sam Dworkin.

Dworkin is known for his expertise in psychology, law, mental illnesses and neuropsychology.

Part of the Humboldt exercise was to conduct a mock jury with German law students and professors.

The Old Town lecturers used a video dramatization. Dworkin played the role of a motorist charged with assaulting a police officer at a traffic stop.

The officer, portrayed by ex-Alexandria public defender investigator Fellman Cabero verbally abused Dworkin. In turn the latter balled up the traffic summons and threw it at the officer's chest.

Citronberg presided as judge, Leibig as prosecutor and Robin, defense attorney.

The German law students deliberated two and a half hours as the jury, after several hours, and found Dworkin not guilty of assaulting the police officer.

The Alexandria's team learned a lot, too.

Leibig confirmed, the jury sided with the motorist. "The overwhelming opinion ]of the Humboldt students] was that America criminal justice is way too harsh."

It was also noted "barely anyone mentioned the U.S. Election at all even though [Donald] Trump had been elected barely 24 hours before."

The legal lecturers expect to teach in Sofia, Bulgaria next fall.

They've been invited for another series for Humboldt law students also in 2017.