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** One of the sidequests has another one; this time the present King Guardia is being framed for selling the Rainbow Shell.
*** Made even more hilarious by the fact that the Rainbow Shell has not budged an inch. You'd think the judge would say something like "oh, before we condemn the king of Guardia, let's make sure that this crime actually occured." It dosn't help that it was sitting IN THE BASEMENT of where the trial was occuring
* The trial that Ellen is subject to in Hell Realm in ''[[Folklore (video game)|Folklore]]'' is full of preconceived conclusions, as it's meant to be a symbolic representation of her own guilt. {{spoiler|She isn't even guilty in the first place.}}
* Happens too many times to count in ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' and its sequels; you can seemingly debunk every piece of evidence pointing towards your client (which is considered sufficient in real life, as the defense has nothing to prove, at least in the U.S. court system), but they're ''still'' not off the hook until you can actually ''prove'' their innocence, seemingly always by catching the real killer. This is perhaps justified by [[Rule of Fun]]. Still, the incompetence of the games' current court system becomes more apparent as the series goes on and reaches a head in the third case of the fourth game, and Phoenix actually is so frustrated with this -- {{spoiler|especially since it ''cost him his career''}}—that he begins a quiet crusade to reinstate the jury system and succeeds in getting a test run in the same game's fourth case. It's [[Narm|unintentionally hilarious]] when the judge explains that jury systems work by virtue of ''normal citizens having common sense''.
** The third game really starts to show how the courts are poorly maintained. In the third case, {{spoiler|Tigre impersonates Phoenix Wright and gets a guilty verdict for Maggey Bryde in order to make sure he didn't come up as a suspect in the murder of Glen Elg. He fooled the court with not only his looks, but ''a fake attorney badge made out of cardboard''!}} In the fifth case where Edgeworth returns after Phoenix is injured, Larry tells Edgeworth about {{spoiler|the fake attorney badge from case 3}} and Edgeworth notes to himself about how he is shocked that the judicial system could have decayed this much while he was away.
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