You would not be any more justified in shooting a "mentally ill person" than any other, and having a history with the person means there's a higher chance the DA or jury will decide you shot because of that history and not because you were actually threatened at the time.
And the PRT wouldn't be able to hide anymore the results of the investigation in Taylor's Trigger, of interest both to the prosecutor and the defense, which would inevitably go out during discovery. And learning that Emma's response to trauma to physically and mentally abuse someone wouldn't exactly help her case about breaking into the house of her victim, to the point I believe the Protectorate and the PRT would rather not press charges.
you assume it would be a fair trail. which is imposable when a government agent is the prosecutor/defense.
You might think so, I might agree, but I don't think many DAs do, nor do most juries. Having the home invader be a cute girl would only make that worse, and having her be under age worse yet.
I don't follow the logic.
No, actually, it's not in either the prosecutor's or the defence's interest. While the fact there was an incident would very much be part of the prosecutor's decision to go forward with the charges, the details of what actually happened are irrelevant to him. Similarly, while the defense might be able to use Danny's belief of what Emma did to show his state of mind at the time (although it's a risky tactic as it would allow the prosecutor to present that as a motive for Danny to murder Emma) the details of what actually happened wouldn't be relevant to Danny's actions, only what he believed.
Putting the victim on trial rarely works well in murder trials, and the judge is not likely to allow the victim's past as relevant.
wouldn't do anything. they cover up a attempt murder and give them a slap on the wrist. they would this give her another slap and have the cops be quite or be sent to prison for endangering a ward's identity. same with Danny
To justify murder in a case of Castle Doctrine self-defense the defendant -in this case Danny- needs to prove that there was a credible threat to his life, which he can do by telling the jury that Emma was a parahuman with a verificable grunge against him and/or his daughter. Which he can prove by calling Taylor to the stand and her telling her story or simply by requesting the PRT to summit during discovery the records they have available about the incident where Danny discovered Emma was a parahuman and the background, which by being a criminal investigation they probably cannot deny to the defense lawyers without a federal judge issuing a gag order (and frankly Taylor's testimony would be more damaging for them anyway).
Not with the Youth Guard keeping a very close eye on the ENE department and Emma in particular. The moment the report comes in about Emma being arrested by the police the Youth Guard will jump on it before the PRT can get a chance to cover it up, especially since the house she broke into was the house of the girl who started the investigation into Emma. While they might be limited in what they could do about the locker on account of their being no Youth Guard there at the time for this they will be one of the first on the scene.
Sorry but no, the government is really, really good at hiding shit. Even when people are actively trying to reveal it. Frankly put if an orginization of sufficent size wants to bury something they can do it, unless they are put into a position that the PRT is nowhere close to being in.
Wrong.
Since what matters is Danny's belief, not weather or not Emma was guilty of anything the defense could mention the fact of the investigation, and Danny's previous statements on record about the subject (although as mentioned it's a risky tactic) but the actual facts of Emma's interactions with Taylor are not relevant.
Nope. All he needs to do is establish that it wasn't reasonable for Danny to be afraid Emma would kill him or cause serious harm. The prosecutor could do so by showing Danny's fears were not reasonable, or by showing that Danny was lying about what happened, or by establishing Emma had been trying to leave/deescelate when shot(this would technically require also proving Danny was aware of this fact, but a jury may convict based on this alone). While the fact of Danny's accusations would help establish motive, the truth behind them won't help either side of the argument.
Of course, the facts influence his beliefs. He knows she's a parahuman that tortured his daughter, that could make him believe she's dangerous despite the fact that she's crying on the ground.
To an extent, but the point is the fact he believes she tortured his daughter matters, weather she did or did not does not. That's why the results of the investigation into Taylor's Trigger event don't matter.
That is only if the PRT consider it to be worth the cost to coverup for Emma, and considering that this is her second time fucking up like this and they are still paying for the first coverup that is unlikely. Plus pulling a coverup is expensive and this one will be more expensive than the first since instead of just getting Danny onboard they have to either spend cash or favors on the cops who arrested Emma, and the Youth Guard to cover for Emma. Plus the Youth Guard are not Piggot or Emma's biggest fans at the moment since they are still under investigation for the first coverup.
He did get into an argument with Emma's parents in the latest Interlude so he does have some fight in him it is just overwhelmed by his fear for his daughter after the PRT hit him with over a decade of fear tactics regarding new parahumans.
Unfortunately Taylor your opinion on the matter is just a courtesy in the eyes of Piggot and your father they are just asking just to say they did.
Emma's cape name is Ampere not Amperage.
Ah, yes, but excessive force charges can still be applied, and THAT uses hindsight on what a reasonable level of force actually was, not what the defendant who had a millisecond to decide how to react believed in the moment when he was surprised and found himself under attack.
Piggot, Rennick, Armsmaster, will immediately jump on Taylor and say they are not discussing Shadow Stalker and Ampere's alleged misconduct, they are discussing Taylor's induction into the Wards.
Nope. It uses what a Jury thinks it was resonable for the person to know and assume at the time.
You are mixing up what the legal requirement is, and what someone might manage to get away illegally if the defense is incompetent and the judge biased.
She could flip it on them by asking when the matters of their misconduct will be discussed, and to be kept informed on the matter so she can act as a witnesses or to give a statement since you know she was the victim of their actions.
They would respond with an evasive "We will deal with it when the investigation is complete, and you don't have a right to be kept informed whether or not they are punished because they are minors. Stop worrying about other people and start worrying about your own behavior and future."
And Taylor would stand up to leave, which would have them immediately change their tune.
unless she has hard evidence and make it imposable to ignored it i don't see how going to the police would do anything. at best she has personal record which would not be enough to proof those three guilty but would be enough to do a investigation. The PRT will know about it and shut it down hard.
I wouldn't call that going over Piggot's head, and the answer is it's up to the author. Some authors have the PRT basically ruling north America as their private feudal kingdom(which has some justification in canon), others acknowledge there are other federal law enforcement organizations and the PRT needs to at least appear to obey the laws.
In canon at least she had plenty of hard evidence - more than enough to get the police looking into things if the PRT doesn't block them. That does not mean that the only way they wouldn't look into is if the PRT blocked them, while the locker incident and Taylor's history involved a whole bunch of Felonies, in a city like BB investigating that sort of crime would still be just third or fourth priority, after more serious issues.
I imagine in this fic that the PRT has to at least cooperate with the cops due to Taylor's interaction with them in Boston, of course that is Boston and Piggot runs things quite differently in Brockton.
Still being third or fourth priority would be a step up from how the PRT are doing things at priority level coverup. Besides as you said Taylor had already collected plenty of evidence herself so their could only be one or two cops assigned to the case and they would still accomplish more than what the PRT have done.
True, my point is that to the extent on is "above" the other in the hierarchy, the PRT is above the police.
True, but there'd still be good reasons (both political and professional) not to go against Piggot.
Given secret identities the PRT pretty much has to have juristiction over any investigation that even comes close to the secret identity of any one in the Wards or Protectorate. Well either that or trust the police to maintain the secret identities as an open secret.
True, but I'll note that whenever someone at work insists I give them a target date for whatever project is my fourth priority I assure them it will be done by the 35th of May. I'd expect the cops in BB to even busier.
Well doing that would pretty much admitting that Emma and Sophia are parahumans and from that considering their ages it is obvious that they are Wards. At which point it can be considered a conflict of interests since the PRT would be responsible for investigating the wrong doings of the PRT.
Nope. It's admitting that someone who could come up in the investigation is connected to someone in the Protectorate or Wards. It could mean that one of the trio is a Ward, or it could mean that Sandra, the quiet girl who isn't mentioned in canon because she didn't do anything is Miss Militia's daughter, Just because Taylor was accusing Emma and Sophia doesn't mean those are who the investigation would conclude in the end were to blame, or that no one else was involved and the PRT would need to step in if anyone in the class was a cape or possibly related to a cape.
By the same logic you could argue that the police investigating the wrong doings of cops is a conflict of interest, and that is the sole purpose of the police's internal affairs dept.
So then Piggot should have contacted the PRT equivalent department regarding Sophia and Emma's actions so as to properly run an investigation into them without bias. Instead it seems like she ran the investigation into their actions completely in house which is how she was able to mostly sweep their actions under the rug. Probably because in a normal department the Wards are supposed to be under the Protectorate not the PRT with the PRT taking up the duty of investigating the Protectorate during these incidents. Since in Brockton Bay the PRT and Piggot have control of the Wards that is probably what led to the whole PRT ENE investigating the PRT ENE for wrong doings, and since there is probably nothing in books for the PRT running the Wards she probably got away with it.
In Britain, we have an independent body to do that for that exact reason.