What would a paladin do

[Man in the Funny Hat]

What would a paladin do to avoid arrest? Prove his innocence? What happens when his old colleagues come looking for him, not willing to use lethal force but not backing down either or listen to his pleas.

If you have to ask that question you are probably laboring under the mistaken impression that there are rules that will tell you how PC's and NPC's MUST act in a given situation. The reality is that the Paladin will do what the paladin will do. He might give himself up, do his time, and walk away smiling calling it a valuable character-building experience. Then again he might lose his paladinhood because of what he will do to avoid arrest. When his colleagues come looking for him they might take pity on him to a man and just let him go. They might become convinced of his innocence and to a man decide to prove it at a new trial. Or there might be just ONE of them that will INSIST that Law is Law and hunt him relentlessly to the ends of the Earth tallying up additional crimes against him as he goes. These are just a few of the INFINITE possibilities.

There is nothing that constrains what any PC or NPC will do or not do - there are only consequences that might apply depending on those actions.