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A somber woman and firefighters stand before a burning, ruined mansion in a dark, painterly style.

A somber woman and firefighters stand before a burning, ruined mansion in a dark, painterly style.
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1 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF WOOD COUNTY STATE OF MISSOURI STATE OF MISSOURI, ) ) v. ) Case No. 51CR-02223 ) WYNNE D. BYRD, ) ) Defendant. ) 2022-2023 Missouri State High School Mock Trial Packet Authored by the 2022-2023 BAMSL High School Mock Trial Steering Committee In alphabetical order: Sarah Bardol, Esq. Danny Barnett-Foster, Esq. Courtney Chen, Esq. Gretchen Garrison, Esq. Joshua M. Jones, Esq. Jeffrey McPherson, Esq. James Wilke, Esq. The Missouri High School Mock Trial Competition is presented by The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis with support from the Lawyers Association of Kansas City Young Lawyers Section and Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association, and is financially supported by the Saint Louis Bar Foundation and the Missouri Lawyer Trust Account Foundation. Amended December 2, 2022 2 Introduction As the volunteer firefighters roll up their hoses, and the smoke rises from the ashes of the once stately Charles Grey mansion, blotting out the stars from the night sky, the gathered onlookers talk quietly among themselves. "Who could have done this?" they ask. "And who would open a Murder Mystery Dinner theater in St. Leonard, Missouri, anyway?" The owner of the mansion, Wynne D. Byrd, stands apart, staring at the charred wreckage of their nascent effort to rebuild a life for themselves. On the other side of the ruins of Charles Grey's folly, the assistant fire captain, Billie Jo-Elish, stands doubled over, gasping for air, their air regulator having failed See more

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