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A 4 page paper answering two questions on plea bargaining and ethical decision-making. One involves a defense attorney offering one of his clients to the district attorney in exchange for leniency with another, who has a good chance of acquittal and should go to trial. The other focuses on whether a prosecutor should trust a rapist to provide accurate information about another case if the prosecutor arranges to have the rape charge dismissed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSlawEthJus4.rtf
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If Defendant A could know what his attorney was trying to do, certainly he would want another, at the very least. Taken further, he also
might consider complaining to the state bar association... It seems clear that Defendant A is far from being a credit to society, but
he still is a member of it. The assistant district attorney has nothing to offer, and in fact there is little if any reason for Defendant A to accept
the offer. The DA has offered 15 years; maximum sentence is 15 years. Defendant A must know there is no benefit to him by accepting the offer.
Whether he has an attorney who will tell him so is unclear. For his part, it is quite possible that Defendant B could
be acquitted on his charge of murder. He must go to trial for that to occur, however; all his attorney and the DA can do is arrange for some
lesser charge to which Defendant B will plead guilty. It is not to Defendant Bs advantage to accept any kind of plea bargain, for without it there is a
possibility that he could be acquitted and go free. He needs an attorney who will advise him properly. In Mr. K, Defendant B does not appear have such
an attorney. The only individual who stands to gain from Mr. Ks proposal is Mr. K. Avoiding Defendant As time-consuming trial when
it is nearly certain he will go to prison, and avoiding Defendant Bs time-consuming trial that has the possibility of ending in acquittal leaves Mr. K free to pursue a
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