Ethical Situation...

Ok, imagine a situation...

Lets say you are a chief of police in a city or a town, and your whole career you've been truing to catch an organized crime leader. This person you believe is a drug dealer and weapons smuggler, however you've never been able to catch him due to the lack of evidence against him...

Now lets say murder happens, and you arrest that same person for murder, and he is off to the courts to be tried for it. You have finally caught biggest crime leader of your town/city...its what you've been wanting to do for years...this was your goal. If he is convicted, for this murder he will serve a life in prison.

Few hours before you are set t to go to the court, you get a letter of confession. A letter is from the real murderer, confessing to the murder. In the letter the person also says that by the time the police are reading this, he would have committed a suicide...you send few people over to investigate, the prison has really committed suicide, and in the letter he has described the crime so vividly and has given the details of the murder, no one apart from the murderer could have possibly known.

You are now totally convinced that this was the killer and the prison you arrested (and wanted to do so for years) is totally innocent.

So what do you do now....

Do you destroy the letter and pretend like nothing happened, and let the innocent prison go to jail for life for something he didnt do, even though hes a crook?

or

Do you show the letter as an evidence and free this man again on the streets, selling drugs to children and smuggling weapons into your town?

I dunno what others would do.....but the "right" thing to do ....IMHO is to let the scumbag go....God is truly just and in the end, the bad guy will get his comupance

Yeah...thats true. But do you let him go to jail...even though hes innocent..hes guilty for other crimes, true, but he is innocent of that particular one...do you still let him go to prison..
Is that the right exercise of justice...😕

I just said to let the jerk go.......gather more evidence and get him for a crime he did commit

Like you said Lil justice.....
Innocent until proven guilty, if he hasn't been convicted of those crimes than no one has the right to judge him for it.
I would show the letter and let him go and then try again to get him for the other things he may have done.

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
So what do you do now....

Do you destroy the letter and pretend like nothing happened, and let the innocent prison go to jail for life for something he didnt do, even though hes a crook?

or

Do you show the letter as an evidence and free this man again on the streets, selling drugs to children and smuggling weapons into your town?

Do the right thing: Let him go but not before beating the ever loving crap out of him.

Originally posted by silver_tears
Like you said Lil justice.....
Innocent until proven guilty, if he hasn't been convicted of those crimes than no one has the right to judge him for it.
I would show the letter and let him go and then try again to get him for the other things he may have done.

Agreed to the fullest! ✅

Let the b****rd swing for it! I see enough kids drawn into and killed by drugs I would have absolutley no moral dilema in destroying the letter and letting a technical injustice occur!
Of course if I had any doubts about the guys past crim record then I wouldn't but if he was one of those that flaunts in your face and gets away with it then to hell with him!

I see.....strong view there eh?

Yes well when you've had to deal with a dead 16 year old from a heroin od you'd have pretty strong views too!
Sorry if that seems harsh I just hate to see such a waste of life! 😠 🙁

I know I'm a newbie and all, but allow me to put some names to this to see if it changes anyone's opinions. Say the guy you had been chasing your whole career was Osama Bin Laden, and you got him for that one murder ONLY. Would you still let him go?

I know that legally, the right thing to do would be let him go, but sometimes the legally correct thing isn't the right thing to do.

I still maintain that God is the ultimate judge....whether a scumbag is left here a little longer because it's the "right thing" or put behind bars for life.....it's all in His hands anyway.

Sometimes the right thing is hard....because you know that innocents could die for it......sad

Yes it is! Its also one of life frustrations that keeps appearing over and over again. You get rid of one bit of scum another takes it's place 🙁

at the core...we are all "evil"......just have to learn to live together.

Thats a little harsh, we all have the capacity for "evil" but that doesn't mean we all are!

without any hypocrisy...the letter will disappear forever...

So you would not pay any attention to Justice? You would condam this man to a life in prison for something he didnt do?

Is justice system there to serve Justice or revenge?

It seems most believe God will be the final judge, but that opinion only works if you're a believer.

I'd write my shopping list on the back of that note before tootling off to the shops for some retail therapy while the court case rolls on.... 😈

Originally posted by Julie
I still maintain that God is the ultimate judge....whether a scumbag is left here a little longer because it's the "right thing" or put behind bars for life.....it's all in His hands anyway.

Sometimes the right thing is hard....because you know that innocents could die for it......sad

what if this guy thinks god is on his side... or he is a messenger of this god... or his god told him to do the things he is doing or have done..? our god is not the same supreme entity that every single person believes in... i'm not disagreeing with you, since i share your sentiment... God IS the ultimate judge (i hope we're talking of the one same God)... i'm just pointing out the facts that people's beliefs differ from one to another...

and i would rather see this guy in jail... if i was the person trying to nail him all these years for drug trafficking and what- not, it would bring me greater pleasure to see him getting hauled away for the crimes he DID commit... but think of the kids... this is truly a dillemma... i wouldn't know what to say unless i am put in that situation... but like i said, i'd rather see him in prison 😮‍💨 ...

Yeah...this wasnt ment to an easy question to answer, thats why i kind of hoped to see what people think...i think i would have given the letter as an evidence...