Question 1. Your response to this post should be a minimum of 300 words.

Guidelines

When addressing a moral dilemma, remember the following five rules:

1. Identify the facts.

2. Identify relevant values and concepts.

3. Identify all possible dilemmas for each party involved.

4. Decide what is the most immediate moral or ethical issue facing the individual.

5. Resolve the ethical or moral dilemma by using an ethical system or some other means of decision making.

DILEMMA:

You are a prosecutor with the unwelcome task of prosecuting a 12-year old for a particularly brutal assault. You personally believe that the child basically went along with his older brother in the assault, and you think that he should have been left in the juvenile system. However, the juvenile court judge waived him to the adult system, and the media and the victim's family are demanding that he be tried as an adult. You have to decide whether to try him for attempted murder, assault, or some lesser crime. You could deny the waiver and send the case back to juvenile court. What will you do? How do you determine your duty? Is it to the victims, to society, or to your own conscience?

Question 2. Your response to this post should be a minimum of 300 words.

Guidelines

When addressing a moral dilemma, remember the following five rules:

1. Identify the facts.

2. Identify relevant values and concepts.

3. Identify all possible dilemmas for each party involved.

4. Decide what is the most immediate moral or ethical issue facing the individual.

5. Resolve the ethical or moral dilemma by using an ethical system or some other means of decision making.

DILEMMA:

You are an attorney and are aware of a colleague who could be considered grossly incompetent. He drinks and often appears in court intoxicated. He ignores his cases and does not file appropriate motions before deadlines expire. Any person who is unlucky enough to have him as a court-appointed attorney usually ends up with a conviction and a heavy sentence because he does not seem to care what happens to his clients and rarely advises going to trial. When he does take a case to trial, he is unprepared and unprofessional in the courtroom. You hear many complaints from defendants about his demeanor, competence, and ethics. Everyone-defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judges alike-knows this person and his failings, yet nothing is done. Should you do something? If so, what?