Was Jack Bean guilty of stealing Henrietta the Hen? Or, was there enough reasonable doubt to believe he didn't do it?

Fifth-graders across District 28 were engaged in a mock trial May 22 to answer those questions with volunteers from the Legal and Intellectual Property Department at Astellas Pharma in Northbrook. The volunteers brought a mock trial program created by the Constitutional Rights Foundation of Chicago to each school.

The program teaches grade school children about due process and the jury system by taking them through a fictional court case (State v. Bean) in which Jack Bean has been accused of criminal trespass and theft of a goose that lays golden eggs.