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Phase 4 Individual Project

Deliverable Length: 1,000–1,250 words

Details:

 

Weekly tasks or assignments (Individual or Group Projects) will be due by Monday and late submissions will be assigned a late penalty in accordance with the late penalty policy found in the syllabus. NOTE: All submission posting times are based on midnight Central Time.

 

A powerful city court magistrate engages in a number of questionable activities while on duty. A list of some of the activities includes the following:

•Borrowing money from court employees

 

•Publicly endorsing and campaigning for a candidate for judicial office

•Conducting personal business from the court chambers

 

•Directing other business court employees to perform personal errands for him during court hours

 

•Shutting court down early to prevent defendant from filing pleadings in an ongoing case

 

•Taking kickbacks from private juvenile detention facilities for locking more juveniles up on questionable charges

 

•Banning one of the defense attorneys in a case from speaking during the trial

 

•Jailing an entire courtroom because a cellphone went off during a proceeding, and no one came forward to accept responsibility

 

•Suggesting to persons appearing before him to contribute to certain charities in lieu of paying fines

 

•Using court employees to perform translating services for his mother’s day care business Assignment Guidelines

 

•In 1,000–1,250 words, address the following: ◦Which, if any, of these activities would be considered unethical? Why?

 

◦Which of these activities, if any, would be considered ethical and acceptable? Why? ◾Be sure to use any research or examples to support your arguments.

 

◾Also be sure to address each of the above activities and explain whether or not you feel each is ethical or unethical.

Taken together, would these actions warrant the judge’s being disciplined? Would it warrant the judge’s removal from office? Why or why not?

 

 Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

 

 

Phase 5 Individual Project

 

Deliverable Length: 1,250-1,500 words

 

Details:

 

Weekly tasks or assignments (Individual or Group Projects) will be due by Monday and late submissions will be assigned a late penalty in accordance with the late penalty policy found in the syllabus. NOTE: All submission posting times are based on midnight Central Time.

 

 

 

You and your partner are detectives working in plain clothes. For several days, you have been staking out an elementary school playground where an adult male reportedly has been approaching the children. One particular morning, you have observed a man in his car parked alongside the school yard. When he calls a little girl over to his car and she approaches him on the driver’s side, you exit from your unmarked vehicle and approach his vehicle from the passenger side so that he cannot see you easily in his rear view mirror. When you get just behind his car on the passenger side, you observe that he has his pants open. With his left hand, he is stroking the girl’s hair.

 

 

 

You call for your partner over the radio and move to arrest the suspect. Showing him your badge, you order him to close his pants and get out of his car. You handcuff him and place him in the back of your unmarked vehicle, while your partner returns the girl to the safekeeping of school administrators.

 

 

 

After telling the suspect of his right to remain silent, you begin interrogating him, recording his name, address, and so forth while awaiting your partner’s return.

 

 

 

When your partner comes back, he gets in the rear of your vehicle with the suspect (a violation of department regulations, unless there is reason to believe that the passenger is suicidal). You remind your partner that riding in the back is a violation of the rules, but he stays there anyway; tells you to drive to the station; and turning to the suspect, calls him a “maggot.” As you drive, your partner starts punching the suspect repeatedly in the face and the crotch. He even leans back and, bracing himself against the car door, kicks the suspect in the chest and shoulders with the heel of his shoe. When the suspect turns to avoid the blows, your partner kicks him in the back and kidney areas. Throughout this beating, the suspect offers no resistance of any kind. You hear the sounds of the beating and, looking in the rear view mirror, you see your partner striking the suspect. After about a minute, you pull the vehicle over, open the rear door and persuade your partner to get out of the back seat and come sit beside you in the front.

 

 

 

After the suspect is booked and in a holding cell, your partner tells you he will write a report that includes the assertion that the child molester forcefully resisted arrest and sustained injuries during the scuffle to handcuff him. He tells you that he will write the report and sign it, and that you do not have to be associated with its contents.

 

 

 

At his trial, the offender pleads guilty to child molestation charges and is sentenced to 3 years in prison, to be served at a treatment center for sexual offenders. Soon afterwards, your partner is sued by the offender for physical abuse and injury. Claiming kidney damage, loss of two teeth, civil rights violations, and psychological trauma, the convicted molester is asking a civil (not a criminal) court for an award of $2 million from your department and $500,000 from your partner. You receive a subpoena from the court to appear at the trial. In addition, the Internal Affairs Division will launch its own investigation of the allegations, and it informs you that you will be called in to make a statement under oath at a hearing about the events. If the department finds sufficient grounds to believe that your partner acted brutally, he will be suspended, or more likely, fired; if the civil jury finds that he was abusive, he may be forced to sell his home and car to pay the award to the victim. You may also be disciplined for failure to protect your prisoner. Comments in the locker room by other officers make it clear that, given the nature of the victim, they expect you to do whatever is necessary to protect your partner from being held accountable, as well as to protect yourself.

 

 

 

Assignment Guidelines

 

•What are your options with regard to the above scenario? ◦List each option, and provide a brief explanation of the benefits and consequences for selecting that option.

 

 

 

•How would you apply the following factors to the scenario?  ◦Intentions

 

◦Seemliness

 

◦Proportionality

 

◦Minimization

 

◦Practicability

 

 

 

•Research the standard of objectivity. ◦How does the standard of objectivity apply, especially as it relates to personal feelings?

 

 

 

•How would you respond under these circumstances? ◦Outline your decision-making process using ethical decision-making guidelines.

 

◦Be sure to address the counterpoints to your arguments and why you decided against them.

 

 

 

•Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.