The contract devil winks at the Azata, then leans forward and stands up. (The chair, having served its purpose, vanishes.)

"Magistrate, I concur with my colleague from Heaven that this trial will likely turn on the decedent's actions in the last six months, both because I expect the advocates for Good to make it a key component of their arguments and because they are inarguably the most recent and impactful decisions the decedent has made. However, despite my honorable colleagues' best efforts to claim that these deeds were Good, I expect to conclusively demonstrate that they were Evil. There are thousands of precedents showing that it is not Good to replace one tyrant with another. There are thousands more showing that it is in fact Evil, if the new tyrant is Eviler than the old. And the new tyrant is indeed Eviler than the old, for who or what could be more Lawful Evil than Hell itself? Asmodeus? Barbatos? Don't make me laugh. Pretenders, amateurs, and latecomers - putting them in their proper place is no Good deed. If all that is required to be Good is to harm the interests of Evil beings, we may as well call Hell Heaven, and each fiend of the deepest pit a noble angel. 

My colleague from Heaven argues that the decedent's Good motives should count in her favor, along with the fact that she had Good allies. Fundamentally, neither of those can be dispositive if the acts are otherwise judged to be Evil ones. Evildoers can use Good allies to Evil ends; it does not make the ends any less Evil. And for the motives - Well. We all know that the road to hell is proverbially paved with Good motives. How many cases has this court seen, where some poor fool tries to claim that they only meant well, when they murdered sixty-five people? When they enslaved others, or tortured a child, or vivisected someone to learn how their magic worked? Has that argument ever succeeded, in this court?

And let us not forget, Magistrate, that should You find yourself unable to judge the morality of assisting a coup in the very lowest reaches of Hell - it is, after all, almost unprecedented - You may always fall back on judging the rest of the decedent's life. Even Heaven admits it was an Evil life, but we have extensive evidence on that matter that we would be remiss not to present before this court."