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in opposition to a plea. The prosecutor refused to convey that information to the court and the trial judge accepted the plea. When the issue reached the Utah Supreme Court, the court concluded that the prosecutor had an ethical obligation as an officer of the court to convey that information to the judge: Prosecutors m

also the fact that the victim has an objection to the plea. In deciding whether to accept a plea, the court must consider the public interest. '4 As the Courts of Appeals have explained, ""Rule 11 also contemplates the rejection of a negotiated plea when the district court believes that bargain is too lenient, or other

n handedly to both prosecution and the defense. Neither side is required to disclose the address or telephone number of a victim, thus complying with the Supreme Court's instruction that "in the absence of a strong showing of state interests to the contrary, discovery must be a two- 204 See infra notes 528-539 and ac

ed "against" the defendant in a "proceeding," and that fairness not require "contemporaneous" introduction of all aspects of the negotiations). But the Supreme Court has made clear that courts must be "especially reluctant to recognize a privilege in an area where it appears that Congress has considered the relev

ot such course of conduct and, in any event, the victims have never "accepted" that the correspondence is protected. Moreover, in an effort to show the Courts of Appeals are inconsistent, the Government pretends to have universally surveyed caselaw with its citations to just these two allegedly "inconsistent" cases.

ee - over the most important consideration, the strong public and private interests at stake. The Goodyear Tire analysis is far more consonant with the Supreme Court's teaching in Jaffee than is MTSG. In Baker v. Secretary, U.S. Dept of Transportation, 452 Fed. Appx. 934, 937 (11th Cir. 2012), this Court appeared

sive, piecemeal appeals of all adverse attorney-client rulings would unduly delay the resolution of district court litigation and needlessly burden the Courts of Appeals" (emphasis added)). In holding that an interlocutory appeal would not lie, the Mohawk Court concluded that postjudgment appeals generally suffice t