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e 9:08-cv-80736-KAM Document 100 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/27/2011 Page 2 of 12 has been waived. The United States further agrees that, in light of the Supreme Court's guidance on the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel, the protections provided to civil mediation proceedings should extend to confidential plea negoti

rty. In plea negotiations, the need for "counsel to discuss matters in an uninhibited fashion" is even more important. See Lake Utopia Paper Ltd. v. Connelly Containers, Inc., 608 F.2d 928, 930 (2d Cir. 1979). Likewise, where a defendant is facing the loss of liberty, he has an even 10 EFTA00600200 Case 9:08-cv-

e 9:08-cv-80736-KAM Document 100 Entered on FLSD Docket 09/27/2011 Page 2 of 12 has been waived. The United States further agrees that, in light of the Supreme Court's guidance on the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel, the protections provided to civil mediation proceedings should extend to confidential plea negoti

rty. In plea negotiations, the need for "counsel to discuss matters in an uninhibited fashion" is even more important. See Lake Utopia Paper Ltd. v. Connelly Containers, Inc., 608 F.2d 928, 930 (2d Cir. 1979). Likewise, where a defendant is facing the loss of liberty, he has an even 10 EFTA00657048 Case 9:08-cv-

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

27 *Lafler v. Cooper, 132 S. Ct. 1376 (2012) 8, 12 Long v. Raymond Corp., 245 Fed. Appx. 912 (11th Cir. 2007) 6 Lake Utopia Paper Ltd. v. Connelly Containers, Inc., 608 F.2d 928 (2d Cir. 1979), cert. denied, 444 U.S. 1076 (1980) 34,37,38 Marino v. Ortiz, 484 U.S. 301 (1988) 52 Mezu v. Morgan State Uni

s, in relevant part: Except as otherwise required by the Constitution of the United States or provided by Act of Congress or in rules prescribed by the Supreme Court pursuant to statutory authority, the privilege of a witness, person, government, State, or political subdivision thereof shall be governed by the p

privilege where litigants can rely on the confidential treatment of everything that transpires during mediation . . . . Lake Utopia Paper Ltd. v. Connelly Containers, Inc., 608 F.2d 928 (2d Cir.1979); Folb v. Motion Picture Ind. Pension & Health Plans, 16 F.Supp.2d 1164, 1173 (C.D.Ca. 1998); Sheldone v. Pennsylv