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The first episode of Matlock uses this same scene almost exactly, except his client was innocent (his clients are always innocent), and so, also looks.Once the defendants have been convicted, the thunderstruck prosecutor and defense attorney ask a jury member why the antic didn't work: one of the jurors noticed that the defendants hadn't looked-they knew darned right well that the victim was dead. Now! He doesn't, but, as the laywer points out, the fact that everyone looked proves that they have a reasonable doubt. Subverted in Homicide: Life On the Street: in an antic taken from the book which inspired the series, in a murder for which the body was not found, the defendant's lawyer insists that the whole case is nothing more than a publicity stunt, and that the "victim" is going to walk into the courtroom.

#The witness tv tropes plus#

In both instances, the DAs will lampshade the desperation nature of the ploy, plus the likelihood that if the defendant doesn't bite, the presiding judge may not even let them follow through on their threat.

They'll also occasionally threaten to expose personal information that the defendant would rather go to jail than have made public (which seldom raises any questions as to whether they might be innocent and confessing just to keep their secret hidden), to achieve the same end.

The prosecuting attorneys on Law and Order have occasionally filed charges against a family member of their real suspect in order to pressure them into a confession, plea bargain or other "short-cut" resolution to the case.

#The witness tv tropes movie#

In Legally Blonde, the climax of the movie involves Elle Woods getting the murder victim's daughter to incriminate herself on the stand, by using a clever line of questioning that seems unrelated, thereby proving the innocence of Elle's client (the deceased's ex-wife).(As a side note, the real-life drug lord Nino Brown was modeled on tried the exact same stunt and failed) Or at least, it worked for a few minutes. This works and he gets a ludicrously small sentence in exchange for testimony - despite every piece of evidence, including eyewitness testimony from an undercover cop - saying Nino was the boss.

#The witness tv tropes trial#

In the climactic trial scene of New Jack City, Nino Brown stands up and dramatically accuses one of his lieutenants of being the real head of the gang, Cash Money Brothers.

Mostly because Flonne is capable of looking after herself, AND the new laws in the Netherworld force him to do this or let Laharl be convicted.

This happens in Devils Attorney as well, although it isn't as heavy on the Tear Jerker part.

Neither Twilight nor Phoenix himself are amused.

In Turnabout Storm, Phoenix Wright, as a last ditch effort to save Rainbow Dash from a sure guilty veridict, accuses Fluttershy for the murder in order to buy more time to investigate.

Also, the jury was terrified of convicting an innocent person because the state had recently executed an innocent superhero who was framed in exactly the sort of super-sciencey way the defense attorney was suggesting.

In the epilogue it's established that if anyone tried that today the prosecution could tear them to pieces any number of ways, but he got a pass because he was the first to do it. Because these things do really happen in Astro City, it works. He suggests that his client was being mind-controlled, that the murderer was a shapeshifter or an evil twin from another dimension, even that the victim was still alive before the coroner cut her open.

One story arc in Astro City is about a lawyer who defends an obviously-guilty murderer by invoking superhero tropes.

Variant: Kurt Godel in Mahou Sensei Negima claimed himself to be behind the attack on Negi's village.