Key Issues Before Correctional Officers

This is your scenario:

You work for the State Bureau of Prisons, Office of the Inspector General, as an attorney and have been asked to review a case involving two correctional officers at your state prison and the conduct of the attorney assigned to represent these officers who is a colleague in your office.

The attorney retained to assist the correctional officers in the correctional officer misconduct case has now been charged with making inappropriate, frivolous, disparaging, and disrespectful remarks about you and your legal team. Your colleague even accused you and your colleagues of misrepresenting facts and tampering with case documents. In fact, your colleague has often been considered incompetent by other attorneys at in your office. He has a drinking problem and often neglects to prepare proper documentation for his cases. There have also been previous complaints about his behavior and demeanor.

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This is what you are asked/required to do in this assignment:

3-page paper.

In your paper, you are asked to analyze the situation based on the scenario above. You will be addressing each of the four requirements below. Your file should end in .docx. No other file types are supported.

In your paper you are asked to address these four requirements in-depth.

-1-Analyze your colleague’s actions.

-2-Describe the moral and ethical issues at stake.

-3-Apply the legal code of the ABA that was broken. ABA means American Bar Association.

-4-Explain the course of action that you consider appropriate along with an ethical theory to support this course of action.

(Note: Ethical theory means something like deontology, utilitarianism and other ethical theories.

For further information on the ABA Standards of Conduct, visit the following websites:

For further information on ABA Disciplinary Actions, visit the following websites :

Your paper and your references must be formatted in APA style.