Re: Plea Bargains And Ethics
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Also, does anything change if we alter the defendants age? 20YO man vs 55YO man?
How about how we gauge his likeliness to reoffend?
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I think these are both important and need to be applied for a general "read" on the individual. In very specific circumstances if I "read" the person as a good-natured person, I might be inclined to defend him: young kind, marijuana dealing or maybe some kinds of hallucinogens, with an otherwise good head on his shoulders. In something like 95%+ of the cases I'm going to think it's unethical to defend the person, but there will be outliers whom I feel differently about.
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If so, then by not defending him I am basically finding him guilty of something I KNOW he HASN'T done.
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This is a minor concern, but has impact in my decision to defend a very small % of these cases.
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