Dealing with a real Death Note

[The Industrial Atheist]

Once it became known that it was real, the police would come up with trumped up charges and take the guy into custody for  as long as possible. From there, things could get tough.

Which actually did happen in the show, for the record.

I did watch it, some years ago. Perhaps it seeped back into my consciousness, a little. But my thought process was that it's something the police will do.

edit: Now I remember the very end of the show. It did indeed get tough.

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I’m thinking that the best hypothesis would be that this guy somehow knows who is going to die and when.

Are the killings motivated or is this whim/random/phone book killing?

(phone book, jesus, how archaic)

Well in the series there is a motive. In this scenario I’m not assuming there is any reason. Maybe they just like knowing how hard it will be to prove.

Once it became known that it was real, the police would come up with trumped up charges and take the guy into custody for  as long as possible. From there, things could get tough.

I think you’re right. Some action would have to be taken, but they could hardly publicly state why.

If you have evidence that there is a real connection between the two, then do you need to understand how?  You might have to show, that the person knew they where killing people by writing their names in the book, but other than that it doesn't seem that difficult to me.

I suspect it wouldn’t be enough in the current legal system. It would be granting a book magic powers.

The thing is it's, not always enough to prove something happened (which, here would be difficult enough in itself) but to show how and why. I don't think the scientific knowledge of Japan could prove a link to a spirit realm which is what causes the deaths IIRC, and even then how do you prove or explain any of it? Unless magic is just science we don't understand yet.