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* [[Kangaroo Court]]: The legal system in this universe clearly operates on presumption of guilt...but it doesn't stop there. It's ''not enough'' to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that the defendant is innocent. There is at least one point in the games (probably more) where it is actually possible to have the defendant found guilty despite the Judge acknowledging that you've already proved their innocence. It's not even enough to prove who else ''did'' commit the crime. To get the defendant acquitted, you have to identify the real criminal and ''make them confess on the stand.'' This is [[Hand Wave]]d by the [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] fictional legal system having undergone legislated reforms to drastically shorten and simplify the trial process, resulting in a system where the majority of defendants are quickly found guilty unless the defense can prove their innocence.
** To be fair, the series originated in Japan, which has a significantly different legal system. It has an inquisitive court system, where the goal is to find the truth. Even trial by jury was not established in the Japanese legal system until 2009—and even then only for certain severe crimes (and the arrangement has far more in common with a court-martial than a common law trial). Yeah, it seems mildly biased against the player, but that's simply a gameplay mechanism. The prosecutors tend to treat the inquisitive court system as an adversarial one, doing anything to get their guilty verdict. Phoenix is not corrupt, and tries to only defend clients he truly believes innocent. The [[Rule of Cool]] and the [[Rule of Funny]] let the characters get away with murder (well, not literally, that's the one thing no one actually gets away with). When the judge believes there are loose ends, he will not give a verdict until the loose ends are tied up. So it's not guilty until proven innocent, except where it inconveniences the player.
** Even most countries with the inquisitive system, including Japan, have the principle what one is "innocent until proven guilty". However, in a bit of [[Truth in Television]], the Japanese court system has a >99% conviction rate (though it has been attributed to limited funding leading to only the most solid cases being tried), forced confessions are allowed frequently, and prosecutors can appeal not-guilty verdicts. In 2008, the Justice Minister noted that the idea of "innocent until proven guilty" was one that he wanted to constrain. However, this game takes it even further than the broken system in Japan and makes it so that one is "guilty until someone ''else'' is proven guilty". [https://web.archive.org/web/20100514153937/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_253/7530-Phoenix-Wrights-Objection More in this article.]
* [[The Killer Was Left-Handed]]: Played straight, inverted, AND subverted.
* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: If it even conceivably passes for evidence, Phoenix or Apollo nabs it. However, it's difficult to tell if Phoenix or Apollo actually grabs the evidence, or just takes a picture of it or something similar. It would be highly improbable for them to lug around a large statue or noodle cart, for example. The general consensus seems to be that if it disappears from the scene, Phoenix or Apollo took it, and if it stays there, they took a picture. However, for extra fun, simply imagine them holding everything, and then presenting it in court by lugging it out from [[Hammerspace]].
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