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* ''[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1835305.html Green Arrow #32]'', wherein Oliver Queen is on trial for murdering Prometheus, manages to be so mindbendingly awful on multiple levels that we're gonna need multiple bullet points just to add up all the dumb:

** First off, Ollie is facing a jury trial for an offense that he freely admits he's committed and sincerely believes (even if maybe he doesn't) that he deserves to be punished for. There shouldn't ''be'' any jury trial if Ollie was willing to plead guilty, merely a sentencing hearing! So... he thinks he did wrong and should pay a price, but he still pled "not guilty"?

** Oliver is on trial for murder. Even though he deliberately intended to kill Prometheus and deliberately sought the man out after the murder of his granddaughter, Oliver is still a law enforcement agent (as a JLA member, he has comparable status) shooting a felon who had just ''nuked a city'' and who was on his feet, facing Ollie, armed... Given that Prometheus has taken on entire JLA lineups and won, Oliver facing him alone is most definitely "in legitimate fear for his life". It's still justifiable homicide even though Ollie ''would have'' killed Prometheus even if he had surrendered, because that's not how it happened. The worst he should have faced is being dismissed from the JLA for deliberately violating policy in ~~pursuing~~ ~~the~~ ~~guy~~ ~~for~~ vengeance, ~~alone~~.

** Oliver is on trial for murder. Even though he deliberately intended to kill Prometheus and deliberately sought the man out after the murder of his granddaughter, Oliver is still a law enforcement agent (as a JLA member, he has comparable status) shooting a felon who had just ''nuked a city'' and who was on his feet, facing Ollie, hands free, and armed. Given that Prometheus has taken on entire JLA lineups and won, Oliver facing him alone is most definitely "in legitimate fear for his life". It's still justifiable homicide even though Ollie ''would have'' killed Prometheus even if he had surrendered, because that's not how it actually happened in practice and the law sentences you based on what you've actually done, not on what you would have hypothetically done under different circumtsances. The worst he should have faced is being dismissed from the JLA for deliberately violating JLA policy in going off on a solo vengeance quest.

** Oliver killed Prometheus ''in the Ghost Zone'', where Prometheus's dimensional hideout was. How on Earth does a Star City criminal court have jurisdiction? The crime didn't even occur on Earth!

*** Actually, the US court system still gets involved because criminal offenses involving United States citizens (such as Ollie) that take place in territory claimed by no other sovereign nation are by US law presumed to fall within US jurisdiction by default. The problem here is that this would mean the trial should be taking place in US ''Federal'' Court, not a California state court.