1. Explain the confidentiality rules of defense attorneys and explain some situations where they may be able to disclose confidential information HTML Editor 2. List and discuss the four types of...

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Explain the confidentiality rules of defence attorneys and explain some situations where they may be able to disclose confidential information
The attorney-client privilege or confidentiality encourages the clients to speak to their defence attorneys truthfully. The confidentiality rules that govern the defence attorneys and their clients aim at the clients speaking honesty to their attorneys so that they can be given the right legal advice to follow. This seeks to maintain a bond between the two parties who can now chose the right legal approach. However, there are various jurisdictions that have risen that govern situations that the lawyer can reveal or disclose confidential information from their clients. Such situations include situations that the lawyer believes the client may injure someone or kill someone. Also if the client is seeking to cause substantial financial loos or destruction of property (Luban, 1988)
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List and discuss the four types of office policy that influence prosecutors’ decision making according to discussion by Jacoby, Mellon, and Smith
The works of Joan E. Jacoby, Leonard Mellon and smith helped to
eak down the law found in prosecutorial decision making process. The office policies that influence the prosecutor’s decisions follow a conceptual model that looks at how prosecutors initiate the prosecutorial decision making in the policy perspective. Some of the common types of office policy include use of a system efficiency policy, structure format, the pattern and structure of the office, and the type and mode of handling cases. These factors help in determining the stance or approach that the prosecutor’s office will follow when it comes to decision making as it is the prevailing policies that will be followed (George et al, 2012)
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Describe and discuss the major ethical issues for judges as presented in your text
Judges are expected to be impartial, authoritative and knowledgeable. However, they are exposed to various problematic ethical issues towards their objectivity. They play a vital role in guiding the actors in the trial process from the jurors, lawyers and witnesses by ensuring integrity are followed. In spite of that they are faced with various ethical issues from the personal views of the judge to the judge’s interpretation of the proceedings. The judge’s political affiliations, religious beliefs or personal beliefs can form part of the ethical issues they face. The personal life of judges can sometimes form ethical issue in instances they are friends with the lawyers (Pollock, 2012).
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Discuss the various forms of forensic testimony and why they have been criticized
Forensic tests have come to be accepted since their introduction due to their unique and infallible identification and results. Forensic testimony has become an integral part in court proceeding with thousands of people sent to prison in recent years. Some of the forensic techniques used measure and analyse the compatibility of Hair, blood, seminal fluid, DNA, clothing, urine, saliva, and other non-biological evidence. Critics to forensic testimony site it as not being a hundred percent method for determining cases as the test are done after the crime has been committed. They site the prevalence of reliability as the major component missing in forensic tests (Lissitzyn,...