Deacon thinks that Peter should receive the Category 2 punishment, to be jailed for a longer length of time, because solitary confinement, when it's just three days of it, isn't much of an impact in his view, and setting a trap with the express purpose of murdering someone who wasn't previously trying to murder you first is a big no-no. And he thinks that Alice should be questioned, and if she says that she wasn't acting under duress, she should be brought to trial, too, as an accomplice. Peter being willing to take the blame, while showing loyalty to a friend, doesn't absolve Alice's culpability.

He doesn't fault Rinzler for attacking Peter with lethal force and almost killing him, because that's what you do when someone's trying to kill you. But he does frown upon Rinzler killing J, as J was just a civilian.