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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 3309115" data-attributes="member: 307">However, the mitigating circumstances were what exonerated them. And those mitigating circumstances were relevant no matter who was judging the trial.Why not? Are they incapable of evaluating the correct legal outcome of a proceeding? They used Roy's dad because he was on hand and they needed him to bring Roy on board to accomplish the actual goal of hauling the OotS to Sapphire City - investigating the other gates. If Shojo didn't want that, it seems pretty obvious that he wouldn't have bothered to send Miko to get OotS in the first place, and thus there would have been no trial at all.Well, no. The actual conduct of the trial was handled entirely seperately of the issue of the celestial/not-celestial thing. There was a prosecution, and there was a defense. That was handled entirely seperate of the issue of who actually rendered the verdict. We have a pretty firm basis for believing that the evidence revealed was all there was.It won't be damaging at all to the society of Azure City. They probably could not care less. The Sapphire Guild might be damaged, but then again, I think killing the head of the order without a trial on the eve of an invasion by a force of unstoppable evil will be much worse.Yes, justice must be seen to be done. Hence the show trial. The correct legal outcome was reached, but it needed to be shown to the Sapphire Guild that it was correct.In any event, Miko has fallen so hard I am somewhat amused that there is even any debate on the issue. Jumping to conclusions, inventing paranoid conspiracy theories, not caring if the theories are true or not, not caring if the individuals involved are evil or not, and assassinating a defenseless old man rather than dealing with the unstoppable evil force is pretty much a one-way ticket to non-paladinhood.</blockquote>

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