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Nice to see a new Phoenix Wright LP. Hopefully the curse will be overcome, because these are some great games.Sorbocules posted:California Food and Agricultural Code 26991 posted: I'm just guessing here, but I'd imagine that the intent of the law is to prevent some dingus leaving animal carcasses to rot somewhere that might be connected to the water supply.
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Legal ethics aren't really a thing in Japanifornia, no.
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Mar 26, 2016 17:30
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Edgeworth is great. Just look at that dismissive headshake, it's so drat condescending.
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Mar 30, 2016 18:12
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While I don't think that anybody here is calling for it, the problem with having a "realistic" legal system simulation is that 95% of the stuff that goes on in the legal system is pretty drat boring IRL, even when it comes to high-stakes murder trials. So while the legal system in Japanifornia is indeed pretty absurd, it at least makes for a better puzzle game than Phoenix Wright: Ace Paperwork Filer.
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Apr 10, 2016 19:11
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Mzbundifund posted:Phoenix Wright does have one unfair advantage, namely he can present any incriminating object from within his coat pocket and the court has to take his word for it that he totally found this wiretap in the witness' hotel room, your honor. He also gets to badger the witnesses something fierce, all things considered.
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Apr 10, 2016 20:47
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True, but on the other hand I believe that you're not allowed to accuse someone on the witness stand of being the real killer on the basis of their testimony either. Then again, IANAL.
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Apr 10, 2016 23:02
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To be fair, that small child is a bit of a poo poo.
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Jun 8, 2016 16:07
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It seems like he could have tripped over the railing and turned around in mid-air.
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Jun 15, 2016 16:40
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I think you have the wrong portrait for one of Gumshoe's lines near the end. Also Gumshoe is the best, and this here proves it.
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Jun 20, 2016 21:30
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yamiaainferno posted:Edgeworth is the best. He's a good guy under all the pomp and snark. You say this as if the pomp and snark aren't a major part of what makes Edgeworth a good guy.
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Jun 25, 2016 21:17
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resurgam40 posted:-The heck? You show Grossberg the attorney's badge... and he compliments Mia? All right then. I think he's complementing Maya there.
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Jul 13, 2016 18:56
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Night10194 posted:The cravat is probably an honest mistake, given that's what you call a necktie in German. If everybody is too scared to correct him I'd call the man imposing.
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Jul 20, 2016 15:30
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Added Space posted:Also, why does the Australian tax minster need reality warping powers? IANAL, but I'd suspect that it has to do with cutting deals in cases of tax evasion or stuff like that.
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Jul 20, 2016 19:15
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It's used that way in Swedish as well in some cases.
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Aug 10, 2016 20:13
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MegaZeroX posted:I never understood why "I can't believe he's dead" is supposed to be evidence of clear guilt. Even if he is innocent and only saw it happen as the defense says, he would still say the same thing, right? He could have been going to find a phone and call the police. Is this a weird translation error or something? If everything else in the testimony stands, it's very incriminating. Why the rest of the testimony should stand is an open question though.
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Aug 17, 2016 15:40
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I'd argue that this here scene stands out as one of the rare cases of extremely sloppy writing in the series. Of the many bad decisions you could make in this situation the one you have to do to progress really stands out as the stupidest one humanly possible, and the game forcing you into it to move the plot forward is just bad and dumb.
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Sep 7, 2016 14:57
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Hell, at least during the last few times all Phoenix had was suspicions that Redd White or Dee Vasques were involved in the case somehow. This one takes the cake due to literally having decisive evidence in his pocket that the person he's confroting had instigated murder.
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Sep 7, 2016 15:34
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I think we can conclude that von Karma's memory is exactly as good as it needs to be to remember everything that's helpful for his case. Besides that, I kinda like this twist. At the start of the trial von Karma tries to bulldoze Phoenix and win by default, but then we find out that he had a backup plan if it came to a real trial and now it turns out that he literally had a backup plan for his backup plan. That's some next level planning right there, and I find that it shows von Karma as an effective opponent really well.
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Sep 14, 2016 16:06
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Sylphosaurus posted:Japan must have some really fancy lawyers since I actually believed that this woman was some kind of top brass in the armed forces at first look. Prosecuting people is serious goddamn business in Japanifornia.
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Sep 25, 2016 20:34
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Malah posted:Which is why the dress code for Japanifornian court seems to be "circus routine," right? I dunno. Compared to some real-life uniforms Lana's outfit is actually kinda vanilla.
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Sep 26, 2016 08:21
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Night10194 posted:Gumshoe elevates every single scene he's in, pal. They did two of them, actually. They're called Ace Attorney Investigations I and II.
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Oct 5, 2016 16:36
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Mors Rattus posted:It's been a while since you've had to...but can you spot the contradiction? Since I haven't actually played this particular case I'm going to guess that while the photo is of Lana it sure doesn't look like a photo of the exact moment of the crime.
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Oct 12, 2016 13:41
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Leif. posted:If she had a premonition that there was going to be the attack, how was it "too late" for her to stop it by the time she realized? I dunno, it does fit the Phoenix Wright pattern of nitpicking every minor thing that seems odd until the witness slips up.
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Oct 14, 2016 07:12
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Iny posted:Well... yeah, there sure was a solid wall directly in between Starr's reported location and the telephone antics she claims to have witnessed. I'm thinking this too. The other possible contradiction is that it was established earlier that there was no record of a call made on Lana's phone on the day of the murder.
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Oct 19, 2016 16:26
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FAT BATMAN posted:Come to think of it....just how quiet can one legally make a death, as a matter of public record? Like, if someone died, at the very very least, there must be some law making death certificates public right? Are there any laws about death certificates needing to be made within X amount of time after the body is declared deceased? That depends on how competent your secret police is.
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Nov 3, 2016 17:11
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So how is Meekins supposed to have murdered the victim while unconscious?
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Dec 26, 2016 09:47
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CaptianKatsura posted:The contradiction is the broken knife tip, which I consider to have more of a connection to the broken knife than to the autopsy report. It would be pretty easy to make both pieces work, since they point to the same thing, and the series even does that at certain points, but it's weird they don't do it here. But that's only a contradiction because we know that there was only one stab wound from the autopsy report. For example, if the victim was stabbed twice the knife could have broken on the first stab and Ema saw the second, which is not a contradiction.
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Feb 23, 2017 19:39
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I think I've figured out what actually happened in this case. Will be interesting to see if I am right.
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Mar 1, 2017 19:54
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resurgam40 posted:Wow, Gant is turning nasty, now that the heats on him. Very casually dismissive of the whole thing... Yeah, I'm thinking this too. Mikl posted:OH COME THE gently caress ON What, you think that people are equal before the law in Japanifornia or something?
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Mar 4, 2017 20:40
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What I'm wondering is why there's no blood on the scrap of cloth when we clearly see that the victim bled all over his chest.
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Mar 23, 2017 18:31
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:The amazing part is that everyone believes this is completely on the level. To be fair, everybody in the courtroom is more or less an idiot.
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Mar 24, 2017 11:47
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Funky Valentine posted:They also didn't have trial by jury until a few years back. To be fair, trial by jury is pretty rare worldwide.
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Funky Valentine posted:If you can't trust all twelve people to distance themselves properly, you sure as gently caress can't trust just one. You probably can if the one person is an experienced professional obliged to follow ethical and legal guidelines in their work as opposed to twelve randos who are there for one case. FoolyCharged posted:Plus a jury is selected from citizens, not the government, so it's a bit of a defense against a rampaging government throwing people in the clink for no reason. If the state is willing to run roughshod over the rule of law they would certainly not be above simply strongarming the jury members to get a guilty verdict. This happened quite frequently in England before sometime in the early 19th century. Besides that, the US has a jury system yet it throws far more people in the clink than other western nations, so the empirical data doesn't support that juries would offer much protection.
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