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Besides, Noa's future knowledge doesn't really explain the fact that even though she has some normal interactions with people like Matt, Jeremy and the other assorted persons in her new life but whenever she runs into a person who would otherwise be considered a venerable practitioner in the '70s like Liebermann and the various judges (or just her "peers"), her personality turns into that of a migratory goose. As you've acknowledged, it's true that there are cases which are just new treatments of existing law and precedent, but she can't be that lucky all the time.įrom my point of view, the proposition that she's good just because she knows future law lightly brushes on the bounds of credulity as it would be an advantage without consequence, but I'm not saying that the oodles of future case treatments in her head is a non-factor either. However, any attempt at using that knowledge would be bound not just by existing law and/or precedent but also by the social milieu of the 80s.
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See y’all on the other side.Ĭonsidering that there are firms out there that built successful practices out of one defense or trial strategy, you could argue that Noa hasn't been exploiting the advantage of bringing back forty years' worth of precedent in her head enough. Anti-mutant sentiment, combined with the judge not liking her or her tomfoolery, almost completely undermines any advantage her usual taste for performance would give.Īnyway. Unfortunately for Noa, this case really hurts her specialty. Juries also often like a rabble-rouser, and Noa’s penchant for pushing the boundaries and risking contempt of court makes her seem like a truthseeker to the average juror: “I put myself at risk for your truth”. It often doesn’t even matter if you have the weaker case the burden of proof is “fifty percent and a feather”, but nobody can actually control for certain how the juries decide who gets the extra 0.00000001%.
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If you know how to present yourself in such a manner that the jury wants to listen to you, and then play that part to the hilt, odds are the jury will be on your side. Showmanship is often the name of the game in a jury trial. Three: remember that mention of being a fellow theater kid? Because sometimes, new law is just an interpretation of a 1975 law that you know to argue for)


(And before somebody gets on my case about new law not working in the past: you’ll see it in action in 3-4 chapters. The knowledge has been bootstrap paradox’d into the past, by way of Noa, and she has been abusing this edge ruthlessly. She already knows how to explain this shit to a jury because she learned how in law school. New developments, such as DNA analysis, are quite literally old hat to her. Two: Noa is working off an understanding of the law that is literally 30-40 years ahead of its time. She’s not as good at ADR, and does her best work when there’s a jury. Click to shrink.The way she’s pulled it off is threefold, and these work together.
