[Solved] week3. journal

Assignment Prompt & Instructions

**All questions are worth 20 points:** 1. **If you are an attorney, is there a point where nonlegal moral considerations supersede your ethical commitment to your client? If you were a defense lawyer and your client was innocent, but you could not prove it, would you violate ethical barriers in service to your client?** 2. **Are the following actions of a prosecutor legal? Are they ethical? Explain your answers.** 3. **Authorizing the arrest of one brother for drugs (knowing the young man would lose a scholarship to college), even though the prosecutor knows the charge would be thrown out, in order to have leverage so that he would give evidence against his brother.** 4. **Announcing a suspect of a drive-by shooting to the media so that the offender is in danger from the rival gang members, and then offering protective custody only if the man will plead guilty.** 5. **Authorizing the arrest of a ten-year-old boy who confessed to a crime, even though there was no serious possibility that he was guilty, in order to pressure a relative to confess.** 1. **Identify one type of judicial misconduct and provide a real life example of a judge participating in misconduct.** 2. **How would you rule? Assume you are a judge who must sentence the following people:** **a). A young woman who was forced into drug use and sales by her stepfather, who had been sexually abusing with her since she was eleven.** **b) A father who killed the man who molested his child.** **c) An honors college student who drank at a fraternity rush party, drove back to the dorm, and on the way, ran over a pedestrian.** 1. **A poor single mother who embezzled money from her employer to pay for her child’s needed surgery because the employer did not provide health insurance.** 2. **Do you support capital punishment? Provide arguments supporting your view. Are your arguments utilitarian or from some other ethical system and if so which system?**