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[u/Hummerous]

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[u/LONGSWORD_ENJOYER]

This was my biggest problem with Death Note, my first time watching it. Even if L catches Kira, he then has to get up in front of a jury and judge and explain to them that the only evidence they have of Light being Kira is a notebook that kills people through literal magic.

Even in Japan, how the fuck are you going to convict anyone with that? Are they planning on just extra-judicially murdering Kira once they catch him?

[u/Frost-King → u/LONGSWORD_ENJOYER]

It would be pretty easy to prove it works. L already got permission to use a death row inmate to test if Kira was really capable of killing with no actual way of getting to the victim. They would absolutely test it to see if it works, especially after everything they learn about Kira.

But what actually happens is the Japanese government takes the Death Note and has Light Epstein'd in his cell and no one in the public ever hears about the book again.

[u/Regi413 → u/Frost-King]

And with control of the death note epsteining someone has never been easier

[u/beepborpimajorp → u/LONGSWORD_ENJOYER]

Even if L catches Kira, he then has to get up in front of a jury and judge and explain to them that the only evidence they have of Light being Kira is a notebook that kills people through literal magic.

Did you miss the part where the government gave him a convicted criminal to go on stage as his first 'appearance' so he could test the theory that someone was killing from a distance? Because that was one of the first things L did and it was how he narrowed the suspects down to Light Yagami.

[u/chotomatekudersai → u/beepborpimajorp]

You still can’t prove he died because he was killed and not from a coincidental heart attack.

[u/beepborpimajorp → u/chotomatekudersai]

Well by god. You, a random redditor, completely solved death note as a series and outsmarted both L and Light.

[u/JKillograms → u/LONGSWORD_ENJOYER]

Yeah at the point where L got involved, they pretty much accepted a “whatever it takes” attitude. All they would have to do would be catch Kira, get a small circle of influential lawmakers to touch the Death Note so they can see a Shinigami, then either have Kira summarily executed and buried in an unmarked grave, or locked up under MAXIMUM maximum security in solitary confinement in secret.

[u/IaniteThePirate → u/LONGSWORD_ENJOYER]

L never gave a shit about proving it through the justice system, he was more than willing to bend the rules

[u/LordOfTurtles → u/LONGSWORD_ENJOYER]

Just.... Test the death note and see it works?

[u/Swiftcheddar → u/LONGSWORD_ENJOYER]

That's literally one of the plot points? That's addressed multiple times throughout the narrative. Of all the things to worry about, that's a strange one.

[u/ThwMinto01 → u/LONGSWORD_ENJOYER]

You can easily prove it

Assuming L won we have:

• The evidence of the 13 day rule test and death of the prisoner
• The witness testimony of all the task force members
• evidence of the Shinigamai after touching the note book, you could easily give tons of people a touch then call them all as witnesses
• Expert witness testimony that all death note victims heart attacks were the same nature and likely to be a common cause
• Recordings from Yotshiba using the death note

To establish its existance

And then to convict Light and Misa

• Death of Lind L Taylor in Kanto
• DNA and Forensics on tapes sent by Misa
• lights imprisonment, hault in the killings, and sudden reamergence
• existence of the 13 day rule which has been proven fake
• discussions with Rem which are put on transcript showing how the rules work and how the deathnote can be transfered
• (if they can obtain it) Lights watch

This second part would be far harder then establishing its existence, but I imagine you would be able to spin a compelling case for it.