arcanenrok:

switch-up-snowfox:

sindri42:

siryouarebeingmocked:

duran-duran-less-official:

That sucks, but it’s also hilarious.

Given how the series is a satire of the Japanese justice system, it’s entirely possible The System just wanted an excuse to get rid of the guy who kept showing up some of the most successful prosecutors on Earth.

In Japanese courts, an accusation leads to conviction more than 99% of the time. The trial is usually just a show, a formality they need to get through before they lock up whoever the police said was responsible.

Meanwhile the police maintain a record of more than 95% of investigations leading to the arrest of the “guilty” party, through a combination of refusing to investigate crimes they don’t think they can figure out (or those which look like they’re too much trouble, like yakuza killings or anything involving politicians) and grabbing a convenient scapegoat if they started an investigation but didn’t immediately find a suitable suspect.

So, a prosecutor forging evidence or beating a confession out of the suspect is just par for the course, a normal part of the pageantry that allows them to claim to be one of the safest countries on earth, showing that they’re tough on crime and super efficient without going to all the trouble of actually figuring out what happened or who’s responsible.

But a defense attorney that actually gets their clients off the hook? That’s rare, and weird, and suspicious as hell. Every move he makes would be under close scrutiny. Is he bribing the judges? Is he being employed by rich, powerful people to keep them from ever paying for their presumably many and horrible crimes? There’s no way that those people are actually innocent, right?

That’s why when you play Phoenix Wright, it’s not enough to say there’s no evidence that your client did it. It’s not enough to prove that the prosecution’s story is impossible. You need to figure out what actually did happen, uncover the real culprit, and present ironclad evidence of somebody else’s guilt in order to convince a court of your client’s innocence.

And if it comes to light that you used forged evidence to get your client acquitted, that just proves what everybody knew all along: the accused is always guilty and anybody who says otherwise is getting in the way of justice.

@siryouarebeingmocked its worth noting that the forged evidence that phoenix was tricked into using forged evidence because a client phoenix took on turned down another defense attorney, and that defense attorney got pissed to fucking high hell at being slighted like this and conspired to ruin phoenix’s life and eventually murdered said client. Though after that guy was locked up thanks to the jury system, Phoenix eventually managed to get his defense attorney badge back.

Many people have joked about how ridiculous the trials are for all the reasons above, but many, not knowing the background, chalk it up to ‘game logic’ - “No way a court would actually work like this in real life!” - unfortunately, the Japanese justice system is just like that

so its straight up “guilty until proven innocent?”