"I'm sorry, your honor, Abaddon has not been kept up to date with court policy for ages, and communications from Abaddon tend to get no response or negative responses. Given this, I don't see how we were supposed to know to submit these documents in advance."

"Watch your tone. Do you have copies of the records now for the representatives present to review?"

"No, no such requirement was mentioned."

"Hand over your records for copying. We will bill you for last-minute copying expenses."

"I don't trust you with the only copy I brought."

"The guards can escort you to a copying facility if you're willing to step away from the trial while it's happening and cede your opening statement order slot to Heaven."

"That's unfair."

"What's unfair is that Abaddon tried to circumvent the trial process entirely, not through recognized channels like Malediction, but through directly grabbing this petitioner from the River of Souls. You're lucky to be here at all. Don't push it."

"There's no evidence of that."

"We can discuss that matter later. Do you wish me to send your report to be copied, do you wish to leave the court to observe the report as it is copied, or do you wish to not use it in your arguments?"

"Fine. Take the report to be copied. If it is altered, I will know."

Security can coordinate the judge getting Abaddon's report.

And the judge will write on a bright pink notecard, pin it to the report, and place it in the outbox.

"May I now proceed with my argument, including with reference to the contents of the report?"

"Daemon representative, you may proceed."

"It is sometimes the case that multiple versions of the same soul exist, sometimes with varying implementation details. Abaddon occasionally receives messages from extrauniversal parties, including one from a region with someone who is the same person as the petitioner. This person has repeatedly defied local law regarding death and soul manipulation, repeatedly attempted to facilitate unrepentantly Evil people including daemon cultists being placed in Heaven, killed thousands of people without repenting of it, et cetera. Abaddon expects that questioning the petitioner will show that they would, under comparable circumstances, commit the same Chaotic and Evil acts, suggesting that the petitioner has a Neutral Evil alignment, when accounting for the broader Lawful tendencies Hell mentioned."

Isn't that not the sort of stuff that's supposed to be brought up at sentencing hearings? "This person who's sort of similar to the defendant did stuff", really? It's hard for him to picture himself killing thousands of people.

He has the right to talk, apparently, and things here seem somewhat disorganized. He'll try using it. "Your honor, is this type of evidence permissible in this court?"

"We will not take documents from untrusted sources, as relayed by untrustworthy relays such as Abaddon, as authoritative. However, representatives may ask you questions that they believe will be informative for this case, and are permitted to generate questions based on many sorts of material."

"Thank you, your honor. Would it be possible for me to review a guide to trial proceedings?"

"No, as it would not be compatible with the Boneyard's busy schedule. Archon, you're next."

"Thank you, your honor. I will note for the record that Heaven still contends that not including a right to a full explanation of the court system in the Fair Trial Act was a mistake. If the trial system is too complicated to be quickly explained to petitioners, then the solution ought to be to make the courts less overworked or simplify the trial system such that it can be quickly explained to petitioners."

"Moving on: We don't agree with Hell's argument that the petitioner's pre-Golarion life is outside of this court's jurisdiction. Elysium vs. Ellostar, 2334, applies in cases where we have very limited information beyond that directly coded in the soul about events. This doesn't hold here – this court is aware of Earth, and the petitioner is from an extremely Earthlike planet. Furthermore, no other system has jurisdiction over the petitioner's pre-Golarion life. Axis vs Helen, -1820, suggests that one of the constraints on jurisdiction is our fact-finding capability, but in the case of the petitioner's pre-Golarion planet of residence, fact-finding is rather cheap, as the planet cannot publish false or misleading information and has the technological capacity to publish massive amounts of information every second, some of which is even transmitted away from the planet in all directions. Prior to arrival on Golarion, the petitioner lived a straightforwardly Lawful Good life of effectively pursuing altruistic goals in an organized manner."

"However, even in the case where you do not accept this argument regarding jurisdiction, we still contend that the petitioner is Lawful Good. Regarding systemic alignment, our understanding is that the petitioner believed in the benefits of Law, repeatedly expressed dismay about signs that he was in a less Lawful environment than his home, and would endorse his Lawful actions, even if many of them occurred due to an enchantment-like effect. Furthermore, regarding moral alignment: He pursued diamond synthesis with the understanding that diamonds produced would be used to resurrect people, even while acting under the understanding that he would not profit from this in a manner proportionate to the value created, because he valued people having more access to life. He did significant research into arcane healing despite having personal access to divine healing. He had higher expectations for adequate treatment of his assistants than the typical person would and attempted to have those expectations fulfilled. He was used to an environment in which it was normal to spend less of a week working than he spent his weeks in Cheliax, not because of threats but because he felt that the lack of various technologies on Golarion was an urgent moral crisis that needed resolving as quickly as possible. Despite a personal appreciation for large explosions, he repeatedly steered his research into replicating a technology with dual usage for energy production and large explosions away from directions that he deemed likely to facilitate large explosions, due to his concerns about negative societal impacts."

The nosoi notices that the dretch is sleeping, again, and escalates straight to striking the gavel and yelling.

"Attention, demon representative! Explain why the petitioner is Chaotic Evil."

"Uh. Um, what Hell says about moral alignment and whatever the Maelstrom says about systemic alignment."

"The Maelstrom hasn't spoken yet."