From: LeonhartFour | #024
"Either choice is fine" in the sense that "Engarde's going to get what's coming to him one way or the other," and he's going to end up begging for the guilty verdict regardless knowing that freedom means de Killer is after him.
But the whole point of 2-4 is that there are more important things than getting "Not Guilty" verdicts and Phoenix trying to figure out why he fights and how to defend people.
But that's irrelevant because for all intents and purposes, that message is already over and done with. Phoenix already acted on it; Engarde's finished. Picking Not Guilty is just a mean-spirited bit of payback; it doesn't have anything to do with that stuff.
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