Prosecutor in hypothetical state of mason

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1) You are a prosecutor in the hypothetical State of Mason. (2) All the deaths in the testing cases (B-L Textbook ) recently have occurred in your jurisdiction. (3) You lack the resources to prosecute all the cases. (4) Your job is to identify at least one case where you will decline to press charges. (5) You must justify your refusal to prosecute by reference to the purposes of punishment. Your decision not to pursue charges against one of the testing defendants will be made in the privacy of your office and will be final. Provide a brief explanation of your decision not to charge one of the defendants in the testing cases. The purpose of this exercise is to analyze potential charges based on the purposes of punishment. The purpose of this exercise is not to decide based on the law that ordinarily guides prosecutorial charging decisions or based on the elements of particular homicide or child abuse statutes (that you will learn in later modules of this course).

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