Mahou Shoujo × Haiboku Saiban - Vol. 1 Ch. 2

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Wanna hear something fucked up? Japanese criminal courts in real life have a conviction rate over 99%. In Japanese trials, the defense has no right to discovery. Criminal trials in Japan are basically a formality. That's the reason why the court system in Ace Attorney and in this are total bullshit.
Eh, you are missing a lots of contexts for this. While a 99% conviction rate is indeed absurd, Japan also have the lowest amount of verdicts per year compare to their total populations. The reasons for this is because they lack lawyers. This is due to how hard it is to become a lawyer in japan. So basically, the small amounts of lawyers get overworks, thus they only choose the cases with clear evidences that can result in a clear guilty verdict. Hence the insane rate.
 
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Eh, you are missing a lots of contexts for this. While a 99% conviction rate is indeed absurd, Japan also have the lowest amount of verdicts per year compare to their total populations. The reasons for this is because they lack lawyers. This is due to how hard it is to become a lawyer in japan. So basically, the small amounts of lawyers get overworks, thus they only choose the cases with clear evidences that can result in a clear guilty verdict. Hence the insane rate.
This is cope. It is a fact that Japanese defense attorneys have no right to discovery in criminal trials, and if they want evidence disclosed then they have to specifically request it, and the request has to be approved by the judge. Japanese defendants also have no right to have a lawyer present when they're questioned by the police. The fact that fewer cases are prosecuted is not evidence that the system actually works. It shows that by the time a case goes to trial the state has already decided the defendant is guilty, making the trial a formality, and the fact that the state sometimes decides that the accused is not guilty doesn't change that. The reason why Ace Attorney has you play as a defense attorney who always wins is because educated Japanese people know that the system is bullshit.
 
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This is cope. It is a fact that Japanese defense attorneys have no right to discovery in criminal trials, and if they want evidence disclosed then they have to specifically request it, and the request has to be approved by the judge. Japanese defendants also have no right to have a lawyer present when they're questioned by the police. The fact that fewer cases are prosecuted is not evidence that the system actually works. It shows that by the time a case goes to trial the state has already decided the defendant is guilty, making the trial a formality, and the fact that the state sometimes decides that the accused is not guilty doesn't change that. The reason why Ace Attorney has you play as a defense attorney who always wins is because educated Japanese people know that the system is bullshit.
I'm not saying the system is without flaws. But people tend to blow out the problems way too much. Like i said, the root cause of everything is the lack of lawyers due to their hard barrier of entry. The convict also have clear evidents to prove their crime. So the chance for false verdict is already low to begin with.
 
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I dunno man, problems like "defence attorneys have no right to discovery in criminal trials" should be completely unacceptable in any lawful nation.
 
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Damn they have less rights than the magical girls in Magika Madoka. And their only compensation is a f@cking wish. :notlikethis:
 
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Wanna hear something fucked up? Japanese criminal courts in real life have a conviction rate over 99%. In Japanese trials, the defense has no right to discovery. Criminal trials in Japan are basically a formality. That's the reason why the court system in Ace Attorney and in this are total bullshit.
Don't be so uninformed. When measured the same way the US also has a conviction rate over 99%. Doesn't mean either is perfect, but don't spread dumb misinformation as if Japan's conviction rate is exceptionally high.
 
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This is bullshite! So if you become a magical girl on the spot to try and save someone, you are scewed if you lose.

Being a good person has no benefits.
 
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yeah at this point magical girls are the biggest enemies to other magical girls, calls for a revolution
 

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