Privileges MCQ

_____ is individuals in various confidential relationships may not testify about information communicated during the relationship.

Answer

Correct Answer: testimonial privilege

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Is state secrets privilege the government may refuse to give evidence and to prevent any person from giving evidence upon a showing of a reasonable likelihood of danger that the evidence will disclose a state secret or official information?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a patient may prevent a psychotherapist from revealing information conveyed during treatment.

Answer

Correct Answer: psychotherapist-patient privilege

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_____ is defined as a patient may prevent a doctor from revealing confidential information communicated during an examination for diagnosis or treatment.

Answer

Correct Answer: physician-patient privilege

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_____ is information regarding criminal investigation, military plans and diplomacy, and other matters.

Answer

Correct Answer: official information privilege

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Is news media privilege a journalist is not required to reveal the identity of his or her sources or provide information gathered as a journalist?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a law allowing journalists to refuse to reveal their sources.

Answer

Correct Answer: journalist shield law

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_____ is defined as grand jury proceedings are required to remain secret.

Answer

Correct Answer: grand jury confidentiality

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_____ is the president has the right to refuse to reveal the confidential decision-making process.

Answer

Correct Answer: executive privilege

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Is dangerous patient exception a psychotherapist is obligated to reveal reasonable grounds to believe a patient poses a danger to others?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the attorney-client privilege does not require a lawyer to maintain information about a future crime or fraud confidential.

Answer

Correct Answer: crime-fraud exception

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_____ is defined as the prosecution is not required to reveal the identity of an informant.

Answer

Correct Answer: confidential informant privilege

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_____ is penitent may prevent clergy from testifying about information revealed by penitent in confidence.

Answer

Correct Answer: clergy-penitent privilege

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Is attorney-client privilege a client can prevent his or her attorney from testifying about information revealed by the client in confidence?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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In determining whether to recognize the privilege, a judge will consider:

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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Police may not seize news material from any newspaper, even with a probable cause warrant, because of their first amendment protection.

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Which is not a reason for grand jury confidentiality?

Answer

Correct Answer: To prevent cross-examination of the witnesses

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The government may require individuals serving on a grand jury to keep their deliberations secret, and any disclosure may subject them to criminal punishments.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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The executive privilege applies to the president, department heads, and agency heads.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Two friends engaged in robberies across the city. They went a significant amount of time without being caught. They marry in the hopes that if caught they can prevent one another from testifying. They will be protected as a married couple.

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Correct Answer: False

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A man and women met each other during a crime spree in the 1990s. The woman was part of a group of bank robbers that successfully operated all over the city. The man was a fan of true crime. The two met during one of the woman’s crime sprees. She would tell the man all about her crazy lifestyle and it made him love her more. They immediately marrie , and divorced 2 months later. She is now on trial, and the prosecution wishes to call the man as a witness. May he testify as to the stories she told him before marriage?

Answer

Correct Answer: Yes, the marital communication privilege applies to statements made during but not before marriage.

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A psychologist is in a session with a long-term patient where he repeatedly threatened to kill his supervisor at work. May the psychologist disclose these threats without breaking the privilege?

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Correct Answer: Yes, provided the jurisdiction recognizes the duty to warn

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The psychotherapist-patient privilege extends to social workers.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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A state law requires physicians to report any gunshot wounds encountere A woman enters the emergency room after having been shot. The physician asks for permission to disclose her wound to the authorities, but she refuses. He reports the information as required by the statute. Have his actions violated the physician-patient privilege?

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Correct Answer: No

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The physician-patient privilege applies in state and federal courts alike.

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Correct Answer: False

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Regardless of the privilege, many jurisdictions require clergy to report child abuse.

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Correct Answer: True

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A woman confessed her recent criminal involvement to her priest. She then confessed the same involvement to nearly the entire congregation. The clergy-penitent privilege still applies.

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Correct Answer: False

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A client visits his lawyer to discuss an upcoming trial. The client admittedly committed the crime as charged and wishes to testify but informs the lawyer that he will not testify truthfully and will commit perjury on the witness stan Would this statement be protected by the attorney-client privilege?

Answer

Correct Answer: Yes

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Which party is the holder of the attorney-client privilege?

Answer

Correct Answer: Client

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