The basic issue in Bill Cosby’s shocking release from prison is whether the ends justify the means. The PASC held Cosby had been technically deprived of his 5th Amendment rights by a prosecutorial legal maneuver the court thought was improper.
Morally the situation is this: Cosby was “obviously” guilty (according to common sense) of criminal acts but to legally prove it the prosecutor used inadmissible evidence. To get justice for some you would have to diminish, by letting the conviction stand, the rights of all. So the court let the guilty man go free.
For more see Instrumental and intrinsic value
In moral philosophy, instrumental and intrinsic value are the distinction between what is a means to an end and what is as an end in itself.[1] Things are deemed to have instrumental value if they help one achieve a particular end; intrinsic values, by contrast, are understood to be desirable in and of themselves