As a Public Defender, You Have Been Assigned Torepresent a Serial

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Essay

As a public defender, you have been assigned torepresent a serial pedophile. Your client has been in and out of prison over twenty years for sexual crimes against children. His modus operandi has been tolure children from public areas intohis van and then take them back tohis house tocarry out his sexual desires. once complete, he would drop the kids off at a public shopping area and then attempt todisappear by traveling toa new state. For his current offense, he is being accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting two12-year old girls in his home, and then releasing them twodays later at a Walmart in Little Rock, Arkansas. While talking toyour client about what happened, he makes a comment toyou that "it would be a shame if I gotoprison, since those other little girls may never be found." You ask him toelaborate and he tells you that "oh yes, there are others, some still alive, some dead." As a public defender, knowing your responsibilities toboth your client and the justice system, what doyou do? Please fully explain your plan of action.

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