User:RD/9k/lawyers react to Ace Attorney (Q618)

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lawyers react to Ace Attorney / real lawyer reacts to Ace Attorney -> a motif to contain various specific criticisms lawyers have made about the games.
lawyers react to Ace Attorney / "it was funny how inaccurate it was" [1]

5th Amendment
[2] / The prosecution can't call the defendant (United States) [3]
Requiring a trial verdict within three days of arrest is so bad the Magna Carta should have been able to prohibit it [4]

Don't ask a lawyer to find all the small details that don't add up; they will find all the structural problems in the mystery or crime story as well as the stated details [5] -> so you're telling me lawyers make good fiction writers if they felt like it. interesting thought.
Justice for All did not really explore the problem of what it means to be a defense attorney; the concept of Phoenix only having to defend the innocent was not necessarily challenged because the second layer of consequences simplified things rather than complicated them [6] -> huh. I didn't think too deeply until now about the fact that this was a classic ethics thought experiment of changing the outcome of a fitting action and seeing what happens. very nice observation.
Attorneys don't decide the outcome of the case, so their ethical opinion on the "Guilty / Not Guilty" axis in particular doesn't matter
In the real world Phoenix would not be allowed to represent someone in a crime he was already a witness to; this happens to partially shield him from, and likely prevent, the dramatic situation of the criminal blackmailing witnesses [7]