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* In the ''[[Thursday Next]]'' series, Thursday is put on trial by Jurisfiction for changing the ending to ''[[Jane Eyre]]''. Two of her trials take place in Kafka's ''The Trial'' and ''Alice's Adventures In Wonderland''; since she's read the books, though, she knows what rules to play by, and manages to get herself out of both trials.
* Played fairly seriously in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] novel "[[X Wing Series|The Krytos Trap]]", with the trial of Tycho Celchu. The whole thing is quite complicated, but the nonhuman public tended to believe he was guilty and too much effort was put into defending him, while the human public tended to see it as a sham trial of an innocent man (It was, but in a bit of a subversion, it was for good reasons {{spoiler|and the director of intelligence knew he hadn't done it, but suspected he might be a traitor anyway, and used the trial to flush the real mole out}}).
* Famous [[Double Subversion]] in ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo (novel)|The Count of Monte Cristo]]'' - Dantes has just been framed for treasonous activities and goes before Villefort the Public Prosecutor alone in his chambers. Villefort is touched by Dantes' integrity and about to let him go, when he sees that a letter which was part of the evidence against Dantes, implicates his own father in treason and would ruin his career. At this point of course, the Kangaroo Court element kicks in as Villefort applies powers ''[[Values Dissonance|actually given to him under the law]]'' to have Dantes imprisoned indefinitely without trial.
** The Depardieu [[Film of the Book]] also includes a scene where Villefort has an impoverished woman sentenced to death for infanticide while delivering a lecture on her immorality. This is [[Hypocritical Humor|particularly hypocritical]] as Villefort believes ''himself'' guilty of infanticide.
* Gently spoofed in ''[[The Phantom Tollbooth]]'', in which (very short) Officer Shrift arrests Milo and Tock - because, among other things, "it's illegal to bark without using the barking meter" - stifling Milo's repeated protests by informing him that he's also the judge, and yes, the jailer too.
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