Means, End and Consequences
Question 1: A judge may apply consequentialism in a case where doctors operated on an unconscious pregnant woman without her consent so as to save her life and that of the unborn child. The law is clear that medical operations need to be done with the patient’s consent/ in this instance however, the patient’s opinion was not accessible and it was an emergency.
Question 2: I will argue against the principle of utility’s application to plea bargaining because this ‘greatest happiness’ being pursued is just but a short term remedy that in the end will hurt and taint the legal system since many innocent people will be convinced to plead guilty .
Based on the principle of Ethical Egoism, I would still be against withholding or planting evidence. This is because in so doing I may get the criminal convicted but at the same time it may become a habit thus tainting my career. Rafael Perez is an example of a police officer who was convicted for this. He was convicted for the shooting and framing of an unarmed member of a gang (Canon, 2000).
Two forms of deceptive interrogation are false evidence and also good cop/bad cop. False evidence method is where the suspect is convinced that evidence implicating him/her has been found. Good cop bad cop is a method characterized by one officer antagonizing the suspect to then another who appears to be understanding appears. The idea is for the suspect to confide in the second one who is more humane. I think the second method is acceptable because it does not make the suspect feel guilty.
References
Cannon, L. (2000). One bad cop. New York Times, 2.
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