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* Invoked ever so hard in the [[Forgotten Realms]] novel ''Tantras.'' Storm Silverhand, the prosecutor against the protagonists who stand accused of murdering Elminster, makes an absolute mockery of the court. She uses horribly leading questions, badgering of witnesses, whipping the audience into am emotional frenzy with screamed accusations, and claims the defense attorney has been magically charmed by his clients when he protests this behavior. In the end her behavior is not only allowed, she actually ''wins the case without a shred of solid evidence''. |
* Invoked ever so hard in the [[Forgotten Realms]] novel ''Tantras.'' Storm Silverhand, the prosecutor against the protagonists who stand accused of murdering Elminster, makes an absolute mockery of the court. She uses horribly leading questions, badgering of witnesses, whipping the audience into am emotional frenzy with screamed accusations, and claims the defense attorney has been magically charmed by his clients when he protests this behavior. In the end her behavior is not only allowed, she actually ''wins the case without a shred of solid evidence''. |
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* The ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Making Money|Making Money]]'' has a trial in which our hero, Moist von Lipwig, currently acting chairman of the bank, is on trial for the unexplained disappearance of nearly ten tons of gold. He's very nervous about a former accomplice of his threatening to reveal that he is, in fact, [[Boxed Crook|a former con artist]] who had been hanged under an assumed name, and has a slightly guilty conscience as he submits to questioning, when he sees a small dog ([[Pet Heir|the actual chairman]]) wander in while sitting down and wagging its tail. These are both happening at once because the dog is holding in its mouth its favorite toy - a huge chewy [[It Makes Sense in Context|vibrator]] - which has turned itself on and whose vibrations are ''propelling the sitting dog backwards across the courtroom floor and out of sight'' while everybody tries desperately not to notice and offend the Patrician. Lipwig reasons that a world in which this can actually happen in the middle of a court is a world which can handle him acting as chairman of a bank, and proceeds to [[Honesty Is the Best Policy|confess everything about his backstory]]. |
* The ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Making Money|Making Money]]'' has a trial in which our hero, Moist von Lipwig, currently acting chairman of the bank, is on trial for the unexplained disappearance of nearly ten tons of gold. He's very nervous about a former accomplice of his threatening to reveal that he is, in fact, [[Boxed Crook|a former con artist]] who had been hanged under an assumed name, and has a slightly guilty conscience as he submits to questioning, when he sees a small dog ([[Pet Heir|the actual chairman]]) wander in while sitting down and wagging its tail. These are both happening at once because the dog is holding in its mouth its favorite toy - a huge chewy [[It Makes Sense in Context|vibrator]] - which has turned itself on and whose vibrations are ''propelling the sitting dog backwards across the courtroom floor and out of sight'' while everybody tries desperately not to notice and offend the Patrician. Lipwig reasons that a world in which this can actually happen in the middle of a court is a world which can handle him acting as chairman of a bank, and proceeds to [[Honesty Is the Best Policy|confess everything about his backstory]]. |
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* Several chapters of [[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Brian Clevinger]]'s novel ''[[Nuklear Age]]'' are devoted to a lengthy courtroom fiasco. For starters, the heroes' (who are being prosecuted by their arch-nemesis) lawyer happens to be their nemesis' boyfriend, the entire jury is made up of [[Joker Jury|people whose lives the heroes have ruined]], and the judge is a bloodthirsty man named [[Hanging Judge|Hangemall Letgodsortitout]]. It needs to be read to be believed. |
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* The murder trial in [[Little Fuzzy]], starting even before the trial begins, with two murder cases being combined into a single trial, the appointment of the defense attorneys as special prosecutors, and key witnesses being seized as "evidence." It goes on to mutate from a civilian trial into a court-martial and an academic seminar, with two flavors of surprise witnesses, and the continued prosecution of a dead man after one of the defendants commits suicide. And there are in-universe precedents for most of this: "You could find a precedent for almost anything in colonial law." |
* The murder trial in [[Little Fuzzy]], starting even before the trial begins, with two murder cases being combined into a single trial, the appointment of the defense attorneys as special prosecutors, and key witnesses being seized as "evidence." It goes on to mutate from a civilian trial into a court-martial and an academic seminar, with two flavors of surprise witnesses, and the continued prosecution of a dead man after one of the defendants commits suicide. And there are in-universe precedents for most of this: "You could find a precedent for almost anything in colonial law." |
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