As a Newly Appointed Assistant District Attorney, You Have Been

As a newly appointed Assistant District Attorney, you have been assigned towork on cases related tonarcotics. After nearly 6 months on the job, you start torealize that your town has a major heroin issue on its hands. During the course of the last 6 months, you have sought extremely long jail and prison sentences for minor non-violent offenders, however you are starting torealize this may not be the best course of action for the offender, the criminal justice system, and more so, the community at large. As a young ADA whowields great discretionary authority on these types of cases, you are at a crossroads regarding how toproceed. Although you seek advice from the Chief Prosecutor, she informs you that it is your discretion on how you choose tohandle these kinds of offenses. With minimal input from your boss, how will you continue todeal with these types of low-level offenders and why? Please fully explain.