During my junior year I was caught for plagiarizing. What had happened was that I had copied a few sentences verbatim from a friends study guide that we both put into an assignment. Our professor followed his "policy" (1st yr ...
... . Furthermore, check your schools academic dishonesty policies. See what is, and ... is not, considered academic dishonesty and whether or not there ...
Sounds like you already know the answer to your question. Of course you should never cheat for someone. Academic dishonesty is good way to ruin your chances at most law schools. So no. You weren't being too harsh.