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Except, contradicting Leyfa's assertions is exactly what would happen if she were a witness.
So do defense attornies not try to present evidence that counters the prosecution's claims?
I'm not sure what your point is here. I'm just saying Leyfa is not a witness for the prosecution or the defense. That's what "expert testimony" is about.
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She simply makes assumptions based on what she sees and what is shown to everyone in the mirror.
"Assumptions, claims", call it what you want. Either way she's making statements based on the evidence to come to the conclusion that the defendant must have committed the crime. Not only that, but the fact that they're in a society where defense attorneys are irrelevant means that everyone in the court room (except the Judge) operates under the assumption that the defendant is guilty. So either way, you have everyone but the Judge and the non-existent defense against the accused.
It is also a world where what the spirit medium dictates is truth. What she sees is the victim's last conscious memory before death, and that evidence alone does not take sides. However, it is essentially the victim's testimony of the murder, so people, including the medium herself, would be more willing to assume that the dead do not lie.
Of course, a dead victim may still be mistaken, but I'll just leave that argument to Nick in the game.
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Should the mirror show something that is beneficial to the defendant, she can act as the defendant's counsel at that.
How can you say that when in all the years of the Medium Trials, the pool has yet to say something beneficial for the defendant. How would you even know she'd change her mind in the first place? All we've seen of her was her presenting the crime to us while she makes assertions about the defendant's actions of how he did it.
Likewise, we don't know how long the Medium Trials have been set as the official system. All we do know is that the people have such a disdain for DAs that they practically hated them out of existence. But that suggests there used to be defense attorneys and some were so successful that they became equivalent with words for "greedy" or "scheming", or something that people would hate to be called. I wouldn't know a better reason to hate on lawyers.
And of course the princess would share those sentiments. Heck, she might even be biased against defendants in general. But no one in this country seems to dare to question royalty... even those defense attorneys that were out of their jobs for it.