Please pay attention to citations

Please read: citing is very important to this assignment and making sure you site properly and refer to the citation and not making anything up and then putting a citation at the bottom( please don’t do that )

You are a prosecutor and you are working a high profile case in your jurisdiction. The case involves the murder of a two young boys. The police arrested two males – one who was 17 years old and another who was 18 at the time of the murders. The evidence collected by the police includes the testimony of two eyewitnesses: a 9 year old boy who claimed to see the two victims talking to the defendants on the day of the homicides and a former girlfriend of one of the defendants who claims he confessed to the murders. It comes to your attention that both eyewitnesses have changed details of their stories throughout the investigation, however, police did manage to get the 17 year old defendant to confess to the crime. He later recanted his confession claiming police coerced him to confess. Both defendants have a history of drug arrests and the older defendant has been arrested for assault twice in the past. The citizens in your jurisdiction believe that the two men sacrificed the boys in some sort of satanic ritual because the two men had made claims to worship the devil while in high school and both had pentagram tattoos on their necks. As the trial approaches and you are reviewing all of the evidence submitted by police, you happen upon a piece of exculpatory evidence indicating that the two defendants are innocent. You know that the election is coming up and that if you do not win the case, you’ll likely lose the next election.

1. What would you do?
2. What ethical system influenced your decision? Explain thoroughly.
3. Based on what you have read about the rules governing legal professionals, was what you did ethical? Explain.

Reminders for Grading (refer to syllabus and discussion board rubric for full details):

• You must make at least two contributions a week to the discussion board. This includes: your own response to the discussion question(s) AND at least one response to other posts in the discussion area. You must ANSWER ALL PARTS OF THE QUESTION(S).
• Comments to other students’ discussion posts cannot be “I agree/disagree.” You must provide substantive feedback in responses to other students’ post. This means you must provide an explanation for why you agree or disagree, and/or raise possible concerns/questions you may have regarding the arguments set forth in the post.
• You must cite any source(s) you use to support your statements/arguments. All citations should be in APA format. DO NOT COPY AND PASTE INFORMATION from sources – this is plagiarism! If you copy and paste information in your discussion post, then you will be given a zero for the assignment.
• Each discussion post is worth 6% of your final grade. Half of your grade is based on your original response to the discussion question(s) and the remainder is based on your response to other posts in the discussion board. To receive full credit for the assignment, you must answer/address all parts of the discussion prompt.
• Incorporate course readings into your posts (original and response). See syllabus and rubric for details

Required Texts: Pollock, J. M. (2019). Ethical dilemmas and decisions in criminal justice, 10th edition. Boston, MA: Cengage.

if you cant access the book I will send you pictures of the chapter required. Please cite from the book twice at least and include the chapter and page in the citation . Citation is in APA and so is the paper

Answer preview

If the exculpatory evidence is convincing and authentic, I will drop the case against the defendants by presenting the exculpatory evidence. The immediate cause of action is a further investigation to unfold details of the exculpatory evidence. This is important to avoid making mistakes and thus enhance justice (Pollock, 2019, chapter 10, pg 301). Moreover, further investigations would be conducted on the case materials to arrest and charge the real killers.

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