Compare and contrast the roles of the prosecutor as part of the adversary system and as required by Due Process

What will be an ideal response?


Adversary system: file charges; vigorously negotiate plea bargain; present evidence at trial; make objections during trial; seek to persuade judge at sentencing. Due Process: not file charges if there is no probable cause to support them; give defense exculpatory evidence; work to free defendant if prosecutor learns of evidence indicating that he/she was wrongly convicted

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A) Waves B) Hertz C) Signals D) Data

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One popular approach to solving ethical problems was developed by an eighteenth-century German philosopher _______. His approach relies on fundamental principles to define what is permissible and what is prohibited

a. Jeremy Bentham. b. Lawrence Kohlberg. c. John Stuart Mill d. Immanuel Kant

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The weakening of primary social relationships is known as social _________

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Compare how the federal courts deal with admissions in relation to hearsay rules to the approach followed by the California courts, and discuss the rationale behind the approach used by the California courts.

What will be an ideal response?

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