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Computerized Judicial System
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Societies in the future, particularly in older media or modern works with elements of Retraux, are sometimes depicted as having a computerized justice system. Part of the use of this trope is for shock value (to modern audiences accustomed to more humanistic values underlying their familiar legal systems); the other part of it is to reinforce that the setting is either The Future, 20 Minutes into the Future, another planet, an Alternate History, or some other futuristic or otherworldly setting. Occasionally, a variant will even show up in the Present Day. Sometimes, but not always, a symptom of a futuristic Kangaroo Court, as computers can be programmed by human beings to distort the truth or cover up. Modern consensus is that a truly computerized justice system is unlikely. Judges have to puzzle through difficult legal reasoning that often depends heavily on experience, "common sense", and a sense of justice. While a lot of the rote work of the courts can be automated, you'd be surprised how many issues require human judgment to resolve fairly. Meanwhile, juries also rely heavily on common sense and experience with human beings to figure out if other human beings are trustworthy. A computer that could replicate the kind of human judgment needed to consistently decide cases in a way people would accept would probably be an AI so sophisticated it wouldn't be worth bothering to build it. What role computers play in the actual trial can vary considerably. Usually the computer is either the Judge, Jury or both. Computerized prosecution is also common, somewhat more so than a computer playing the role of Defense Attorney (though these show up, as well, from time to time). |
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Genshin Impact has a downplayed example; while Fontaine's trials are largely conducted by human means (or seemingly human in the case of Chief Justice Neuvillette), the actual verdict is delivered by a machine called the Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale, which takes into account the arguments from both the prosecution and the defense, as well as the Chief Justice's ruling. That being said, the Oratrice's rulings always line up with Neuvillette's, which is why he is so shocked when the Oratrice contradicts him and finds Childe guilty in the serial disappearances case, despite the actual culprit having just been caught and convicted. The machine is also used to convert the people's belief in justice into Indemnitium, a power source which fuels Fontaine's advanced technology relative to the rest of Teyvat. | |
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In The Jetsons episode "Millionaire Astro", the Jetsons are involved in a custody battle with Astro's original owners. In court, the "jury" was a computer called the Jury-vac; it had 12 volume unit meters. | |
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The Simpsons: When Homer's car is abandoned in New York City he calls in to challenge the tickets. | |
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Paranoia. To the extent that any Alpha Complex citizen receives due process at all, the Computer usually presides over any formal trials that occur. This often occurs during post-mission debriefings when Troubleshooters accuse each other of treason. | |
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An episode of C.O.P.S. called "The Case of the Bogus Justice Machines" has a crooked city councilman try to replace the C.O.P.S. with "Instant Justice Machines". The machines acted as police, judge and warden and had a tendency towards All Crimes Are Equal. And of course, because the councilman was in Big Boss's pocket, the machines would not arrest any of his crooks no matter what they did. | |
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One early Challengers of the Unknown story had the Challengers and a villainous time-traveler subjected to one when they traveled into the far future. In a subversion of how this plot usually plays out, the A.I. exonerates all of them for being obviously too primitive to comply with society's more complicated laws; before the villain can celebrate, though, the court's human enforcers promptly confiscate all the tech he's stolen, turn him over to the Challengers, send them all back to their own time, and blow up the time machine for good measure. | |
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Void Bastards has every aspect of the judical system overseen by an AI installed into a clunky CRT monitor. | |
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The Red Dwarf episode "Emohawk: Polymorph II" featured a robotic Space Corps Enforcement Orb who had been tracking the crew and Starbug for some time on charges of looting and illegal salvage. Due to the distance from formal legal proceedings Enforcement Orbs are empowered to pass judgment and mete sentence (death in this case) on the spot. "Justice" featured a space station that was a prison. The station was administered by The Justice Computer, who mind probed everyone entering to determine if they were hiding a criminal act and immediately rendered judgement on them. |
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One of Tim and Eric's many mock products from Cinco is "e-Trial", a software application that enables users to give themselves a trial from their home computer. Defendants click icons to select relevant pieces of evidence and portraits of virtual jurors, submit a plea, then receive a legally-binding verdict straight from the computer screen. | |
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Several of Frank Herbert's ConSentiency stories (including Whipping Star and "The Tactful Saboteur") mention a "robo legum" court which is apparently run by a computer. | |
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In the episode "Little Brother" of the short-lived Masters of Science Fiction, computer personalities oversee trials, and the uploaded minds of deceased people act as jurors. However, this turns out to work poorly. | |
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Class of '09: By 2034, juries have recommended verdicts from the AI system, and it's strongly implied very few go against them. Judges also rarely deny its requests for warrants. | |
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The TV Movies that began the Lexx series showed that Kangaroo Court computerized trials where the judge, prosecution, and defense were all played by standardized holographic bureaucrats were a regular part of life under the Divine Order of the League of 20,000 Planets, or at least life on the Cluster, the League's capitol. | |
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In a rare subversion, in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Court Martial", the USS Enterprise computer is used to prove Kirk's innocence (trials in the Federation typically being conducted by sentient organic beings, not computers). A digital witness, perhaps? | |
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The Futurama episode "Fear of a Bot Planet" the judge in the trial is an old Apple Macintosh, possibly as a reference to Max Headroom above. | |
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Add some floppy disks, and Max Headroom (see above) would be Truth in Television. | |
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Halfway through the second Exit Path game, Central captures you, and runs you through an automated jury system, which instantly deems you guilty. The whole process has shades of Kangaroo Court as well. | |
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The Mechanismo arc in Judge Dredd features robotic versions of the Megacity One Judges, empowered exactly as the Judges were under the Judicial Code, to be Judge, Jury, and Executioner. Inevitably, they malfunction and massacre innocent civilians. | |
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The Doctor Who serial "The Stones of Blood" features the Megara, Justice Machines who take the place of judge, jury and executioner and can Mind Probe witnesses to be certain of the truth. They frequently converse with each other during the trial in machine code and regard the involvement of actual organics in the judicial process as a tedious necessity. "The Keys of Marinus", a First Doctor story, had something similar in the Conscience of Marinus. |
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During Travis' military tribunal on Blake's 7, the roles of prosecution and defense are filled by human beings, but the "Judgement Program" or something similar processes the disposition of the accused. The Terran Federation was, of course, consistently depicted as totalitarian. A "judgement machine" was also referred to in Blake's civilian trial in the pilot episode, "The Way Back". Defense and Prosecutions load Data Crystals containing the evidence and their respective legal arguments into the computer, which then makes a decision. The human Arbiters then decide on the sentence. In both cases the computer is presented as being objective, but this doesn't prevent false evidence and judicial influence. |
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In Mega Man Battle Network 6: Cybeast Gregar and Cybeast Falzar, there is a computerized judge. Which promptly gets hacked and starts accusing and convicting people of trumped up charges. | |
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Demolition Man has omnipresent computerized speech monitors that fine citizens for uttering profanity. | |
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In Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Togusa gets put on trial for using his weapon while off-duty. During his trial, the judge is aided with an odd number of computer A.I.s to help her make decisions and move the trial along. | |
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Narrowly averted in Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, where, when a criminal is confronted, the computer compiles all the relevant information and sends it to a judge (as revealed in the 10 Years After movie, the galactic court is located on a planet where time passes at an INFINITELY slower rate, and thus what to the Dekarangers is just a few seconds, over there is the time where the actual judgement takes place), who then hands down a verdict. Its American counterpart Power Rangers S.P.D. plays it straight by having the Rangers' equipment determine the guilt or innocence of the accused itself, but at least they only issue arrest warrants and don't hand out death sentences like Dekaranger does. | |
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In Battleborn, Orendi's discipline hearing in one of her lore challenges was presided by a Magnus named Gendarme. The hearing however ends up as a chaotic mess as Orendi immediately starts attacking everyone and everything upon entering. As Orendi causes more and more damage, the Hon. Gendarme becomes too preoccupied with updating on the fly the growing list of charges against Orendi to do anything else. The recording of this incident then comes to an end with Orendi having destroyed Gendarme's remote access node. | |
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In The Demolished Man, it is revealed in the end that their system of justice involves a computer which reviews the case and decides in minutes if the person is guilty or not. Note that it is not a Kangaroo Court, as the computer is very tough to convince. You need real evidence someone is guilty, and indeed the need to find the evidence drives Powell's actions (and the plot). | |
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In Bill the Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison, the titular character is arrested on the charges of dereliction of duty, as well as losing his map of the Imperial Planetville (a capital offense, mind you). He is brought before a court where jury members are robots pre-programmed to always find the defendant guilty. To everyone's shock, the robots acquit him... but only because they have just received orders to sent Bill to a hellhole planet. | |
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Feng Shui presents this as yet another feature of the dystopian world of 2056. | |
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Star Frontiers module SF1 Volturnus, Planet of Mystery. All of the laws of the Eorna civilization were entered into special computers. The computers control the robot police and act as judges in all civil and criminal cases. | |
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