on what course of action to take, the case is brought before the court system.The party that must use the most ethics in the criminal justice system is the judge. The judge must act in an impartial manner when presiding of a case, and when making a verdict if the verdict is not coming from a jury. No personal feelings of the judge should be affecting the case, but if in some instance it does, then the judge should use ethical discretion and request to be removed from hearing that individual case. However, being that the judge has no problem presiding over the case, he will way all factors when it comes time to make a decision as to what the punishment will be. In many instances he might just impose probation, or dependent upon the crime he might even have to contemplate, just as the prosecutor did, whether to hand down a sentence of the death penalty. In any case, once the judge makes a decision for the punishment, justice has hopefully been served and the case is closed, unless of course there are appeals.So as anyone can plainly see, ethical decision making skills are needed in every facet of the criminal justice system....
