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[FelixSparks]

You beautiful piece of citrus.

[Tawa]

"Indeed."
((Tawa: Autopsy report, arrest record, whatever else.  Autopsy shows death by, arrest record has x on FITR's person, x found on the scene...))

"It's already in the record. It's just that you defense attorneys can never seem to remember most of it's there."

Gun added to the Court Record.

((That was how I always rationalized the "surprise evidence" element, anyway. Godot explicitly states in Bridge to the Turnabout that he had to check all of his evidence with the court before the trial started; Phoenix always seemed pretty absent-minded, so it wasn't much of a stretch for him to forget that most of the evidence was there.))

[FelixSparks]

"I decked Von Karma don't think I won't do the same to you. And this is rather interesting..."

[TheBiggerFish]

"The defense requests the autopsy report and the arrest report read into the record.
Off the record, we just got this case and I haven't had time to go over this stuff yet.  Nor is our GM being helpful and telling us any, say, key points hint hint hint.  Further, excuse my current partner's... impetuosity."
Tawarochir, it is rather impossible to defend if we do not know the specific allegations against the defendant.  If we're defending our client on the basis that he couldn't have done it in the dining room with a candlestick, and the state of the evidence in your head is about how he did or didn't do it in the pool room with the revolver...

[FelixSparks]

"They'll tell everything once the case starts newbie. Just relax. The Defense is ready, your honor."

[TheBiggerFish]

"Yes, we said we were ready.  The request stands."

[FelixSparks]

"It's a murder charge. They think FITR killed Detective Gumshoe. They're wrong and we're here to prove it."

[Tawa]

"The defense requests the autopsy report and the arrest report read into the record."

"They are in the record."

"The defendant was found on the scene of the crime shortly after the victim's death, clad in metal gauntlets, whose markings match the scratches on the handle of the firearm. No signs of anything else capable of firearm operation were found on the scene of the crime."

[TheBiggerFish]

"The defense queries whether said metal gauntlets would accurately reproduce the pattern of scratches seen on the firearm, should a similar firearm be produced and tested.  Correlation does not necessarily imply causation."

[FelixSparks]

"But FITR could not have done this. He has an alibi for the time of the murder!"

[TheBiggerFish]

"Indeed, that as well.  As my colleague points out, FITR was in a meeting, which would presumably be corroborated by the judge he was meeting with, during the 12:00-12:30 time of death."

[Tawa]

"The defense queries whether said metal gauntlets would accurately reproduce the pattern of scratches seen on the firearm, should a similar firearm be produced and tested.  Correlation does not necessarily imply causation."

"We aren't incompetent, you know. Of course we've tested that."

"But FITR could not have done this. He has an alibi for the time of the murder!"

"Oh, no, he doesn't. Why don't I call in the head detective on the case? He can summarize what happened more accurately than me."

[TheBiggerFish]

"Certainly, call the detective, but have we not corroborated the meeting with the judge in question?  Would this not prove evidence enough?"


((Due to tired, I am not going to continue posting tonight.  I will post should anyone have done so between now and tomorrow morning, though.))

[Tawa]

"Oh, hoh. I'm afraid that's not substantial at all. L! Get in here!"

"I heard I was... needed?"

"Yes. If you would please testify as to why the defendant is guilty?"

"..."

Cross-Examination

-- Case Summary --

"So... I'm the head detective on the case."
"I personally inspected the crime scene and all of the evidence, and interviewed the witnesses."
"The judge... has admitted that your friend there left, 'to go to the bathroom', at 12:20."
"He didn't come back for ten minutes."
"Based on this information and the evidence in the record, I'm 99% sure that FITR is the kirrar--er, killer.

[TheBiggerFish]

"L.  FITR is the "kirrar"?  Not to imply I believe in Freud, but this must have SOME meaning for you to have said it in this situation.
Also.  Inspecting something personally does not preclude the possibility of falsification, misidentification, or simply missing something.  And you're hedging your bets.  99% sure, huh?  Who's in the other 1%?"