1. You are a probation or parole officer. Your caseload averages 100 clients.
a. A client tells you that her boss is treating her unfairly at work because of her criminal record and probationor parole status. Your client is afraid of being fired and having her probation or parole revoked. What do you do?
b. You discover that a client is using marijuana. You like the client, and other than the marijuana yse, he has been doing well on probation or parole. What do you do?
c. You have a problem client who is using drugs (marijuana and cocaine), hanging out with a bad group of people and probably commiting petty thefts to support their drug habit (although you have no hard evidence of this) You have warned the client to stop theis behavior, but she has ignored your warnings. Futhermore, the client has threatened to harm you and your family should you revoke her probation or parole. What do you do?
d. You have a client who, as a condtion of his probation or parole, is required to earn his GED. Although the client has been attending classes regularly and seems to be trying very hard, his teacher informs you that the client does not have the intellectual capacity to earn the GED. What do you do?
2. It is the year 2028 in Washington DC and public service officers, formerly called pollice officers, are flying routine patrol with the aid of their new jet packs. While flying over a condo near the city's center, two of the officers, using their bionic eyes and ears, detect what appear to be half dozen men plotting to bomb theWhite House. Surverying the condo from the sky perch, the officers see, stored in a bedroom closet, enough of a new, illegal, and largely undetectable hydrigen based explosive to do the job. The officers, using the ultra small two way communication devices implanted in their larynxes, communicate to headquarters what they have seen. They await further orders.
a. Do the officers have probable cause to obtain a seach warrant from a magistrate or make an arrest? If you were a proponent of Packer;s crime control model, what would your answers be? If you were a proponent of Packer's due process model, what would your answer be?
b. How might the legal issues of the right to privacy, the admissibility of evidence, the exclusionary rule, and the plan view doctrine affect law enforcement officers use of this new technology?
c. What restraints, if any, should be imposed on law enforcement officers use of this new technology? Of you were a proponent of Packer's crime control model, what would your answer be? If you were a proponent of Packer's due process model, what would your answer be?