for some reason, a few people's answers involve peeing. ya'll are sick. jk i love immature humor today is a new day, and with a new day, is a new question! ☃ today's rewards ? ☃ ❀ stat items again ❀ ❀ random furniture ❀ ❀ gift to signify how much you suck ❀ now, background story of the qotd: i was playing ace attorney (hmu if you play too) and the qotd is based on a case which, although i do not like, is rather unique to the game. ☃ question of the day ☃ on December 5, 2018 QoTD: You are an attorney at law. Your job is to defend your client. During your investigation, you realize that your client is guilty of the crime. However, a relative of your client has kidnapped your sister, and will only return her should your client recieve the "Not Guilty" verdict. Do you fight for the "Not Guilty" verdict to save your sister, fight for the "Guilty" verdict to bring justice, or do you figure a way out somehow? Answer Genre: Serious, with logical justification. ☃ special thanks for donations ☃ ellliii good luck, wannabe dev, rynn - i miss my teacher, he was so nice -
You go for a mistrial, but do it by having a sidebar with the judge first. Explain the situation and ask them to go along with faking a "not guilty" verdict charade for the client only. (as this is the only way to secure your sister's safety and the judge is now responsible, being aware of the stakes). Or, you know, leave the judge out of it, but request a recess and involve the police to rescue your sister. Then let this case default to a mistrial.
As an attorney your job is to defend your client. Often if your client is guilty when the attorney knows he still continues to defend. So I wouldn’t see a reason to stop defending?♀️ (I dont rly know anything about the job of attorney so if im mistaking tell me lol)
This is right up my ally I am actually in law school studying for my first final as we speak. As an attorney you have to defend your client. Once that case is closed you can go back and file a false imprisonments suit again that person and you can also charge get him off of that charge and then charge him for conspicuously after getting your sister back.
I would contact the police/fbi with proof that they agreed to return my sister if i went with'not guilty' and have them set up a trap to get her returned and then arrest the client
I would defend the client, because it is the safest way to get my sister back. If I were to do something else against the client and/or their relative, then it would be more dangerous and risky. I also might go to the police and see what they could do about it, but keep my family and friends hidden so they couldn’t repeat the same thing.
o wait i just realised. there was a big loophole from the case that i forgot to mention lel. pls read question again. today is a new day, and with a new day, is a new question! ☃ today's rewards ? ☃ ❀ stat items again ❀ ❀ random furniture ❀ ❀ gift to signify how much you suck ❀ now, background story of the qotd: i was playing ace attorney (hmu if you play too) and the qotd is based on a case which, although i do not like, is rather unique to the game. ☃ question of the day ☃ on December 5, 2018 QoTD: You are an attorney at law. Your job is to defend your client. During your investigation, you realize that your client is guilty of the crime. However, a relative of your client has kidnapped your sister, and will only return her should your client recieve the "Not Guilty" verdict. Should you tell the court of this matter, your sister will immediately be executed. (pls note that in the case, this relative is an assassin for hire) Do you fight for the "Not Guilty" verdict to save your sister, fight for the "Guilty" verdict to bring justice, or do you figure a way out somehow? Answer Genre: Serious, with logical justification. ☃ special thanks for donations ☃ ellliii good luck, wannabe dev, rynn - i miss my teacher, he was so nice -
——— edited answer ——— I would defend the client as not guilty, because it is the safest way to get my sister back. If I purposely made him guilty, I wouldn’t get my sister back and if I tried to take action, she would die. Defending the client is the safest way and is arguably more ethical as you are letting one person go to save the life of another (unless he’s a murderer or something lol).
^ oh uh.. context on the case: Movie Star A hired an assassin to kill off Movie Star B. Assassin did the job, but Movie Star A was arrested on suspicion of the murder. This goes against the assassin's values, so he took your friend/sister and threatened to kill her off unless you get a "Not Guilty" verdict. The assassin has planted an audio recording device to listen in to the court, basically. You cannot tell the court about this, or the assassin will kill her. You can tell the police, but the police have been after this assassin for months now, and they can't find them, sooooo. I'm bad at telling the story smh.
Okay hear me out. This is 100% serious I promise you. The night before you're supposed to be defending your client, stage a break in at your home. Either have another family member or friend do it, or do it yourself. It's not that hard to stage it well and make it convincing, especially when you've gone to school for law which normally includes forensics courses. Major point: this will make your client look guilty! Memorize a story. Memorize certain facial features/body features, a tattoo, and/or clothing. Make sure this turns around and makes your client look even more innocent; claim the intruder made threats of "make sure (blank) is guilty", etc. However, before you do all of that, you have to do something pretty illegal. But if it means saving a sibling? I'm down. Get rid of that evidence. Find what traced you to see the person is guilty, and get rid of it. If you're the only one who found it, chances are it was very difficult to find, and only you know about it. Now, stage the break-in, get a severe or multiple wounds. Either a stab wound in your leg or some slashes on your arms/chest, places that make it look like you were defending yourself! It's believable and not deadly if you're knowledgeable. Make sure this happens somewhere private, like an office or bedroom. If it's in the kitchen/garage, etc., it will look suspicious if there's no evidence of you trying to obtain a weapon to fight back/no DNA of another person. Also, trim your nails as short as possible before hand; if there was an intruder, any extra nail would grab onto fibers, skin, etc. You'll be hospitalized for a while, but the evidence is gone, you've most likely got the money for bills, and ultimately your used-to-be client is found not guilty and your sibling is let go. k thx bye
Life is precious, also family comes first. So I'd definitely assure my sister's safety first by bailing my client out of the case. At the same time justice has to served as well, also I myself am a witness that my client is actually guilty, so I'll make the move the bring Justice for his crimes ?
I don't think that's possible. there's a "double jeopardy" rule, where you cannot be tried twice for the same offense. You'd have to bring him in for a different offense. Either way, thank you though!
I've played plenty of ace attorney, and if your a defense attorney, whether you find out your party is guilty or not your job is to defend them, and to find a plea deal that works with the matter at hand, in the case that your clients brother kidnapped your sister has nothing to do with the case I'd bring it to the appropriate law authority,