Chapter 4

Question 1

ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility

Answer 1

American Bar Association standards of behavior, which are intended to as self-regulating for lawyer conduct.

Question 2

Affirmative defenses

Answer 2

Responses to a criminal charge where the defendant bears the burden of proof which give new facts in favor of the defendant

Question 3

Alibi

Answer 3

Defense to criminal allegation that places an accused individual at some place other than where the crime occurred.

Question 4

Assigned counsel system

Answer 4

Program wherein indigent clients charged with crimes may have defense attorneys appointed for them.

Question 5

Attorney competence

Answer 5

Standards for determining whether clients are fairly represented by their lawyers.

Question 6

Attorney-client confidentiality and privilege

Answer 6

Relation between counsel and his client wherein any information exchanged between parties will not be disclosed to others.

Question 7

Automatism

Answer 7

A set of actions taken during a state of unconsciousness

Question 8

Brady materials

Answer 8

Exculpatory materials must be disclosed through discovery to defense counsel by the prosecution when the defendant is to be tried for a crime.

Question 9

Brady violation

Answer 9

violation of discovery rules when prosecutor fails to turn over exculpatory evidence to defense counsel

Question 10

Burden proof

Answer 10

The requirement to introduce evidence to prove an alleged fact.

Question 11

Canons of Professional Ethics

Answer 11

Part of ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility formulated in 1908

Question 12

Circumstantial evidence

Answer 12

Material provided by a witness from which a jury must infer a fact

Question 13

Coercion

Answer 13

Affirmative defense similar to duress, wherein defendants allege that they were forced to commit an illegal act

Question 14

Conclusive evidence

Answer 14

Proof establishing guilt beyond reasonable doubt

Question 15

Contract system

Answer 15

Providing counsel to indigent offenders by having an attorney under contract

Question 16

Corroboration

Answer 16

Evidence that strengthens the evidence already given

Question 17

Defense of property

Answer 17

affirmative defense to justify an illegal conduct where the defendant claim to have breaking the law to save his property.

Question 18

Demonstrative Evidence

Answer 18

Materials related to a crime that is apparent to the senses.

Question 19

Derivative evidence

Answer 19

Information obtained as the result of previously discovered evidence

Question 20

Direct evidence

Answer 20

Evidence offered by an eyewitness who testifies to what was seen or heard

Question 21

Discovery

Answer 21

Procedure where prosecution shares information with defense attorney and defendant

Question 22

Duress

Answer 22

Affirmative defense used by defendants to show that they were forced to commit an illegal act.

Question 23

Entrapment

Answer 23

Activity by law enforcement officers that encourages others to commit a crime which wouldn’t happen without officers intervention

Question 24

Evidence

Answer 24

All materials admissible in court of law to produce a belief in the mind of the court or jury concerning the matter issue.

Question 25

Evidentiary

Answer 25

Pertaining to the evidence or rules of evidence .

Question 26

Habeas corpus petition

Answer 26

Writ filed by inmates challenging the legitimacy of their confinement