Question

One of your female offenders is a single mother with a six-year old daughter who attends elementary school near your office. Knowing that she has lunch with her daughter every Wednesday, you schedule this offender's next probation appointment to meet with you immediately after her visit at the school. When the offender arrives at your office, you search her coat and find a small glass pipe and two off-white nuggets that resemble crack cocaine. When questioned, the offender readily admits that she had visited her daughter's school prior to the probation appointment. However, she tells you that the coat was borrowed from a friend because of the cold weather. 1. What dilemmas are presented in this situation?

Answer 1

Answer: There are two dilemmas. The first is if in truth she had attended her daughter's school and if the coat was provided by one of her friends due to the cold weather.

Explanation:

The first dilemma would be if the offender went to her daughter's school. She says she went to her daughter's school before going to her probation appointment. At a certain point, this may be false since, if she went to school, she would be inspected in some way or another and could have found what she was carrying in the closet. It is possible that before going to school she would have met someone who gave her those things.

The second dilemma would be that the coat was borrowed by a friend. On the one hand, it may be true since she might not have had any coat and borrowed because of the cold weather, but it's possible that maybe she was aware of what the borrowed coat has. There is also the dilemma that she would not jeopardize her freedom by loading drugs in her coat, she is aware that this can bring her problems so it is possible that the coat had it and that it was not her drug.