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You have graduated from law school, passed the bar, and opened your own law firm. Your take your first case and meet with the defendant who is being charged with battery with a deadly weapon. He was leaving a party when he got into a fight and threw a bottle of liquor at another individual hitting the other individual in the head and causing that individual to sustain a concussion. You are not successful in getting the prosecution to give an acceptable plea deal and lost at a jury trial. Your client is now being sentenced. What arguments would you likely make in mitigation to the judge to try to get your client from going to prison?

You graduate from the prestigious Frankfurter School of Law and pass the bar. One of your former classmates is arrested on federal drug trafficking charges with suspected terrorists and is held at the local federal detention center. You show up to visit about a week after he is first taken into custody. He informs you that his parents are willing to pay for an attorney but have not yet done so because they are trying to save some money. He also believes the government is going to request that he be held without bail. Because your friend was a C student who didn’t always pay attention in class, he has some very basic legal questions for you to answer which you are happy to do but make clear to him that you are not his attorney. Is your friend entitled to a public defender?

Exceptions to the hearsay rule include ________.

Which ONE of the following statements concerning the writ of habeas corpus is INCORRECT?

Which one of the following is not recognized as a valid privilege from offering evidence?

Police officers must always have probable cause to make an arrest.

Modern arson statutes typically expand on the common-law definition of arson by making it unlawful to cause fire or explosion damage to a structure irrespective of whether it is a dwelling.

Assume from the previous question that Billy’s confession was suppressed and thrown out. The gun and the DNA evidence found next to the body could be considered and admitted at trial as:

A defendant who pleads duress admits commission of the alleged criminal act but denies any criminal intent.

On the basis of drug paraphernalia found by garbage collectors in a garbage container placed curbside for pick up by the municipal refuse department, the police obtained a warrant to search the house that yielded the garbage. Would the owners who occupy the house have a valid basis to suppress the evidence seized by the police from their garbage container?