Student ID: 22049805 Exam: 501758RR - Legal ... - JustAnswer

Student ID: 22049805

Exam: 501758RR - Legal Professionals and Prosecution

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Questions 1 to 20: Select the best answer to each question. Note that a question and its answers may be split across a page

break, so be sure that you have seen the entire question and all the answers before choosing an answer.

1. Prosecutor Ray Thomas has discovered that he prosecuted an innocent man. It's now his ethical

responsibility to

A. remedy the conviction.

B. apply to the parole board.

C. tell the defense attorney to reopen the case.

D. do nothing.

2. Burying an opposing counsel in frivolous discovery paperwork is a violation of ABA Model Rule

A. 1.4 Communication.

B. 1.3 Due Diligence.

C. 3.4 Fairness to Opposing Party and Counsel.

D. 3.3 Candor Toward the Tribunal.

3. Procrastinating on a legal case violates ABA Model Rule for

A. meritorious claims.

B. communication.

C. due diligence.

D. fairness to opposing party.

4. The primary theme of _______ ethics is impartiality.

A. prosecutorial

B. judicial

C. defense-lawyer

D. utilitarian

5. If an attorney wants to write a book about a case he or she is involved in, that attorney

A. is prohibited from doing so.

B. may only use a ghostwriter.

C. may not negotiate with a publisher until he or she no longer represents the affected client.

D. must include his client as co-author.

6. Which of the following statements regarding judicial behavior is true?

A. A judge has no duty to conclude judicial processing with reasonable punctuality.

B. Judges have the least discretion in interpreting the law and deciding sentences.

C. The primary theme of judicial ethics is impartiality.

D. The judiciary doesn't have its own code of ethics.

7. If an attorney knows his client has lied on the stand, that attorney is ethically required to

A. recuse himself from the case.

B. do nothing.

C. recall his client to the stand and re-ask the question.

D. notify the court.

8. A lawyer can ethically reveal the confidences of a client when the

A. client consents.

B. lawyer is convinced the information will help his client's case.

C. lawyer must share the information with the prosecutor during a plea bargaining.

D. lawyer discovers the client lied on the stand.

9. During a court case, it was determined that both the litigants and their attorneys had made contributions

to the judge's election campaign. It was therefore ethically essential that the

A. attorneys for the litigants demand the judge recuse himself.

B. judge recuse himself if he found that the donations hindered his ability to be impartial.

C. judge recuse himself no matter what.

D. attorney resign from the case.

10. Which of the following statements applies to the judicial process?

A. Specific rules exist concerning when a prosecutor and a judge can discuss an ongoing case without the presence of a defense

attorney.

B. If the defense files a motion requesting pertinent evidence, a prosecutor must hand it over.

C. A prosecutor can communicate with a defendant outside the presence of the defendant's attorney.

D. A prosecutor should never take steps to avoid allowing false testimony on the stand.

11. A lawyer's promise to maintain confidentiality may be broken if

A. a crime is being committed.

B. the lawyer is talking to another lawyer.

C. the information is a matter of public knowledge.

D. the senior partner of his or her firm demands it.

12. An attorney's membership in the American Bar Association

A. isn't required for him/her to practice law.

B. automatically makes him or her a member of his state's bar association.

C. is required only if he or she is a prosecutor.

D. is required before taking the bar exam.

13. If the client tells the attorney where the murder weapon is and the attorney goes to check, the attorney

must then

A. offer the weapon to the police.

B. do nothing.

C. return the weapon to the client and ask him or her not to display the object again.

D. tell the judge only but not the police.

14. Which of the following statements regarding the action of prosecutors is true?

A. A prosecutor is allowed much less discretion than other criminal justice professionals.

B. A prosecutor has no duty to the public as a representative of the state.

C. A prosecutor must seek justice, not merely a conviction.

D. A prosecutor is allowed to pursue charges when there's no probable cause.

15. It's true that bar associations

A. are only authorized to sanction attorneys for criminal code violations.

B. sanction attorneys for ethical violations.

C. can't sanction attorneys for ethical violations.

D. are well staffed to handle complaints.

16. Frivolous legal claims are those that

A. call for the reversal of existing law.

B. aren't winnable.

C. don't have merit.

D. have a great amount of arguable issues.

17. Ethics rules prohibit an attorney from representing a client at a trial when the attorney

A. has a financial stake in the outcome of the trial.

B. will be called as a witness.

C. is related to the client.

D. has other clients with similar issues.

18. The American Bar Association's judicial code emphasizes that judges should avoid _______ as well as

actual bias.

A. the appearance of bias

B. extrajudicial activities that might cause bias

C. accusations of bias

D. the appearance of impropriety

19. If an attorney believes that he or she isn't competent to handle a case, he or she may ethically do all of

the following except

A. accept the case but work with another attorney.

B. accept the case on behalf of another attorney.

C. decline the case.

D. accept the case and try to get up to speed on the material.

20. Which of the following statements applies to lawyer-client confidentiality?

A. A lawyer can ethically reveal client confidences when disclosure is required by law or court order.

B. A lawyer can't ethically reveal client confidences for self-defense against an accusation of wrongful conduct.

C. A lawyer can ethically reveal client confidences when learning, after the fact, that the client lied on previous testimony to the

court.

D. A lawyer can't ethically reveal client confidences even if the client consents.

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