Attempted Murder (some small spoilers)

Yep, that was my first thought as well when presented with the choice, and many others agree. It's mind-boggling, really. Bioware, please don't sacrifice basic logic for morally-grey choices

Yea. i still enjoyed it but don't think too much about it cause they didn't either. one can make excuses for it like Tann wanting to either sweep it under the rug or make an example out of it or the Initiative simply having other priorities so they take a black and white approach to matters for now or w/e, but Bioware Montreal got paid for it so it was their job to make sure they present it better.

Maybe because there's no government yet in Andromeda, so nobody really care about the law?

Anyway, if you do exile him;



There's one situation in Kadara slums that get me upset too.. and it's not quest related.

This is fiction - not real life.

Well, that's Canada for you. 

Biower! Take us to der Fanta Sea!

The thing with Vetra was dumb, it was supposed to show us she's a wheeler-dealer....all it really showed was a straight up bribe.

I think the logic was that it was more forgivable because the guy he was trying to kill would have gotten the whole squad killed?

Still stupid...

The reason for the attempted murder makes the whole thing more forgivable.

In Vietnam a lot of overly reckless or idiotic squad leaders were killed by their own men with grenades.  Thats were the term to ''frag'' somebody comes from, the frag grenade.

Bioware..

Well, really, there aren't rules. The point of the Initiative is leaving behind the Milky Way, council space, and establishing a new society. Part of that is establishing their own government and laws because the old ones no longer apply to them.

So what you have is a situation where a bunch of people, none of whom are legal experts(it's mentioned that they haven't thawed any lawyers out yet), coming from different societies with different legal structures, the leader of whom is an accountant who's entirely out of his depth, in a crisis situation, making the rules up as they go along.

Then there are the optics of the situation, and leaders are often more concerned with optics than with results. Overturning the original ruling and retrying him for attempted murder sends the message that the leadership is incompetent(convicting a man for a crime he didn't commit) and vindictive(going after the same man for the same crime with a different charge). Then there's the efficiency angle; if you have him dead to rights on attempted murder, anyway, and the sentence is the same either way, then there's an argument that overturning the conviction and then trying him for attempted murder is a waste of time and resources while you're still in a crisis situation. There's also probably a question as to whether or not double jeopardy factors into the circumstance, because, again, no one involved is a legal expert.