Critical Thinking Assessment: Doris Drugdealer

Critical Thinking Assessment 19-Year-old Doris Drugdealer was caught trying to sell $200 worth of heroin to an undercover cop in 1974. After being arrested the cops later found $600 in cash, paraphernalia for cutting heroin, and a picture of her with other known drug dealers in her apartment. The cops suspected that she had connections to the top dogs in the drug ring. For these crimes she received 10-20 years in prison, and after serving 8 months of her sentence her decided that she couldn’t take it and escaped. During the years of her escape; she was so afraid of getting caught she acted as a model citizen and evolving herself with the common cause organization. Doris was finally caught 34 years later. She had a family of a husband of 23 years, a son (whom recently graduated high school), and 2 older daughters. Her husband and neighbor both agreed that Doris should not go back to prison and that she had learned her lesson. Her family and friends submitted a plea for clemency to the governor of Michigan. The decision is to be remained if Doris should be granted clemency or to do the remainder of her sentence. Doris is most worried about her son and daughters, because people tend to associate people with what their family as done in …show more content…
They have never seen any other side of her, so of course they feel the need to protect their friend. Neighbors can either be Doris greatest allies or her worst enemies. Doris’s fear of being caught changed her actions around people and this brought the neighbors to her side; to defend each other. Some of her neighbors could feel differently, they could feel betrayed that she could keep something like this a secret, and since she could; is she hiding something else? Doris is the person that we share a community with, so all the neighbors had to trust her at least once in their time that they have lived