This second set of serial killings in a row, clearly by someone else entirely at that, represents a major spike in the whole "we need a kidnappee justice system" plot thread that's been building up since Onimaru Miki's stunt back in January. It's plain as day that the native justice system is in no shape to handle Persona-users properly, after all, especially with their inability to perceive or remember supernatural things and their tendency to forget anything that would pierce their mundane view of the world if given any thought (like the fact that a now-revived kidnappee murder victim was ever dead). Not to mention that jailbreaks are inevitable and executions just plain don't work...
Unfortunately, with Phoenix gone, poor Edgeworth's stuck with a decided lack of defense attorneys for the trial part of any attempt at proper justice, on top of the fact that they already had no judge. (A jury? With a pool of only a hundred or so kidnappees that know each other to choose from? No way that would work.) Worse, no one else has even expressed interest in either position yet -- and some kidnappees don't see the point of trials at all! Phoenix and Edgeworth had hoped to reach a compromise with representatives of the various cultures represented among the kidnappee population, but it seems that there may not be time for that before Edgeworth's worst fears about the situation are realized...
Concerning punishment befitting a serial killer, there's been more progress, though. Edgeworth's had the idea of basically sticking microchip tracking devices into the bodies of offenders, then distributing an app to all kidnappees' phones that both allows people so microchipped to be tracked over a long distance and alerts the phones' owners if they get close. (Mini already agreed to that ) Microchipped felons would still be as off-limits for violent retribution as anyone else, though... as long as they don't push their luck enough to get convicted further. The trouble lies in keeping it working through the Dark Hour; the techies are making some progress on making that kind of thing possible, but he's only shared this idea with Atsuro Kihara and Allen Ridgeley yet, and it's only been days...
Anyway, TL;DR of it is, if you want something to do with the justice system subplot, let's get plotting! -- Pteryx
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This second set of serial killings in a row, clearly by someone else entirely at that, represents a major spike in the whole "we need a kidnappee justice system" plot thread that's been building up since Onimaru Miki's stunt back in January. It's plain as day that the native justice system is in no shape to handle Persona-users properly, after all, especially with their inability to perceive or remember supernatural things and their tendency to forget anything that would pierce their mundane view of the world if given any thought (like the fact that a now-revived kidnappee murder victim was ever dead). Not to mention that jailbreaks are inevitable and executions just plain don't work...
Unfortunately, with Phoenix gone, poor Edgeworth's stuck with a decided lack of defense attorneys for the trial part of any attempt at proper justice, on top of the fact that they already had no judge. (A jury? With a pool of only a hundred or so kidnappees that know each other to choose from? No way that would work.) Worse, no one else has even expressed interest in either position yet -- and some kidnappees don't see the point of trials at all! Phoenix and Edgeworth had hoped to reach a compromise with representatives of the various cultures represented among the kidnappee population, but it seems that there may not be time for that before Edgeworth's worst fears about the situation are realized...
Concerning punishment befitting a serial killer, there's been more progress, though. Edgeworth's had the idea of basically sticking microchip tracking devices into the bodies of offenders, then distributing an app to all kidnappees' phones that both allows people so microchipped to be tracked over a long distance and alerts the phones' owners if they get close. (Mini already agreed to that ) Microchipped felons would still be as off-limits for violent retribution as anyone else, though... as long as they don't push their luck enough to get convicted further. The trouble lies in keeping it working through the Dark Hour; the techies are making some progress on making that kind of thing possible, but he's only shared this idea with Atsuro Kihara and Allen Ridgeley yet, and it's only been days...
Anyway, TL;DR of it is, if you want something to do with the justice system subplot, let's get plotting! -- Pteryx