As always the legal procedure is a fascinating read, but I also want to call out how well you breath life into the world and its characters. Your use of voice is highly distinct and charming, and everyone's personality comes through loud and clear. J.J.J. was particularly charming this chapter.
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Evaunit02mark1
S-s-smell the Prey, S-s-start the Hunt.
Still works in her favor actually. If one of those athletes cheats then it only proves that a human could cheat in that manner and recreate that shot.
If that's the case then Canter is a human cheat not a mutant one and the case claims he only won because he was a mutant.
Sleight of hand is not punching physics in the groin and taking its lunch money.
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Uh, you are right. Unless he cheats using rigged tools, weird camera angles(that Noa would notice) or calls himself a mutant, though that would be... something.
Edit: and another thing, Carter is accused of cheating 5 times in a match. That all those shots counted even with sleights of hand would be weird, unless he has mutant powers
Again, might be too much Ace Attorney
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Well, the coach is evidently gonna watch over the kids and advice them that actually cheating could end with them having legal trouble.
Evaunit02mark1
S-s-smell the Prey, S-s-start the Hunt.
Also damn near impossible to prove. Unless he and Canter are directly related or some kind of mystic fuckery is going on every mutants mutation is unique.
They're called mutants for a reason.
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Will he? They went to practice immediately, I don't know if he's going to check, or even think to catch them for cheating. It doesn't seem Noa is paying him to check, and Noa said she would pay to recreate the shot, not remake it following the rules
Yeah, I was kidding. I don't think any of them wants to make a career suicide.
Though, again, maybe too much Ace Attorney
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Stubborn biases? Noa has Thoughts about how things should go/be ie: the Bugle's coverage of Spiderman. Heck, it could be Minority Solidarity: she may have been more likely to take Canter's case because he's gay. Everyone has biases of course, but I'm guessing it's not being as aware of her biases that'll come back to bite her in the butt.
just a thought.
Thanks for writing!
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Irrelevant! unless the student is also a mutant.
The defamatory claims are that mr. Canter is a mutant, and that he couldn't make the shots using his mutant powers
If the student's are able to recreate Mr. Canter's shot whitout mutant powers then whether or not they cheated is irrelevant to the case, the damages Mr. Canter suffered were due to being belived to be a mutant.
Mr. Canter was banned from tennis tournaments due to being belived to be a mutant, if Mr. Beckers statement about Mr. Canter cheating is true it does not defend against the defamatory nature of calling Mr. Canter a mutant whitout proof.
If I call some one a murderer and a thief, proving that they are one of those does not make me any Les liabal for the other statement
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Oh, hello there Domino.
Because nothing's more motivated then a collage student seeing a chance to escape student debt.
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Look the problem is, Spiderman stops a bank robbery and then gets a news article about Spiderman robbing the bank.
And that's just normal, imagine yourself not as Spiderman, just a random masked superhero, and they pull shit like this to you all the time.
Honesty if I had nothing tying me to a city that allowed this to happen, I would move and be a superhero somewhere else. More so with how in the early years of Spidey career even fellow superheroes belied the stupid newspaper.
IIRC former judge Andrews was the judge presiding over Noah's previous notable case, and conspiring with former district attorney Young, even if nothing is necessarily part of the record.
How hard would it be for law enforcement of any stripe to look at this and go 'what if this was not an accident but a revenge killing?'
How hard would it be for law enforcement of any stripe to look at this and go 'what if this was not an accident but a revenge killing?'
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Yeah, I get your point.
But what I meant isn't that my example is logic-proof, being a cheater and being a mutant cheater are two different things, but what it means for the jury.
I don't know if Noa's argument, provided all the convoluted stuff about a student cheating for no clear reason, will convince the jury enough. And that is the point, an alleged mutant playing sport is a case of moral panic.
It's been told again and again that the Jury isn't rational, that even disregarded opinions or false testimonies might remain in their mind. Honestly, Noa's plan looks very good, but she might tunnelvisioning a bit.
Great Greedy Guts
Ceterum censeo Vigilam esse delendam.
Not so! It's up to $25k per person, but the coach mentions she (probably actually Canter?) could be out $1 million over this and she doesn't disagree, which means she's probably more than willing to pay for multiple angles of the same shot. After all, the odds of any one person making it through cheating/secretly being a mutant might be low-but-plausible. The odds that every member of NYU's tennis club are mutants or otherwise getting away with cheating on video? Technically not impossible, but close enough for government work. (Plus, it lets her pick and choose the best examples if for some reason she doesn't want to enter all of them into evidence.)
Kalibrius
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Oh dear
My guess is Gluttony, gluttony is not merely overeating but actually overdoing things to the point of excess or waste such as JJJ's spider man spiels or in noas case pulling out all stops without regard to cost, she's the lawyer equivalent of taylor hebert escalate till your foes flat as pancakes
My guess is Gluttony, gluttony is not merely overeating but actually overdoing things to the point of excess or waste such as JJJ's spider man spiels or in noas case pulling out all stops without regard to cost, she's the lawyer equivalent of taylor hebert escalate till your foes flat as pancakes
NotInventedHere
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I get that you're going for a Legally Blonde sort of thing here, but as a queer dude who is also a total mess all the time, it does make me wince a bit at the stereotyping.
I really, really like how logical and sensible J Jonah Jameson comes across. This is a man who has the skills and intelligence to have believably helmed a major newspaper in an incredibly cut-throat business environment for decades. He has his personal bugbears, but he has reasoning behind them and he's actually thought things through.
This is an amazing line. But I am slightly feeling like the aforementioned flaw might be 'hubris'. Nora is putting in an enormous amount of effort and money to try and totally crush this specific opposition when she could 'just' beat them and save her money and energy for other cases and expanding her fledgling firm. She's got a lot of eggs in one basket right now.
bookwyrm
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Forget law enforcement, I'd bet anything Rush Limbaugh is right now entertaining a guest star that as we speak is dripping into 'mainstream' conservatism recycled points of mutie hate conspiracy theories about how the """global elites""" orchestrated the Young assassination to silence him before he could clear his name and as part of their overarching plot to institute a new world order of mutant supremacy and bring forth the Antichrist.
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Honestly impressive how I can hear J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson in that scene. Really great work with the dialogue!
It spins JJJ relationship with Spiderman in an interesting light. He is prejudiced against Spiderman but his arguments are logical and could be true. Aside from his hatred of Spiderman he is an excellent journalist now if he was open about his hatred of Spiderman in the paper he'd be perfect.
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Yeah, I was going to guess the (perhaps period-typical) stereotyping as being the character flaw alluded to, LOL.
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Not very.
Any number of Mutants could have taken control of the car, any number of other mutants could have taken control of Judge Andrews or Young, a bunch of mutants that could have illusioned either so they didn't see the things that needed to be avoided. Heck, there are even some Mutants like Domino who could have altered probability so it happened.
And of course all the various powers that could be used to cause the event that I'm not thinking of.
KillingYouNicely
I've seen things. They weren't really interesting.
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Also, something no-one seems to have pointed out as a possible character flaw - she framed in her office an article that involved the death of a guy. Because she didn't like him, like Jonah, she took amusement from his death instead of the slightest moment for 'oh, shit, someone died? damn that sucks'. Not exactly the strongest respect for people's lives there I'm afraid.
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If the student's have to cheat, Noa could probably argue that the damages caused are due to being a mutant, not the cheating, and that the punishments he would have received for cheating are less severe that the ones he has suffered for being belived to be a mutant.
Additionally she could argue that making the public belive he is a mutant has presented an immenent danger to his life as people want him dead for being a mutant.
She could point out that the damages goes beyond the tennis world as he has struggled to find lawyers willing to represent him due to them believing he's a mutant.
She could argue that punishing a cheater may be just, but banning him and endangering his life for cheating is not
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On a completely separate topic -
Who wants to bet that Peter Parker was listening at the door just then?
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Wasn't it discussed that this case would most likely set precedent for future rulings on mutant laws.
If this case turns out in her favour then it could set a precedent that you can't just acuse someone of being a mutant without clear proof