Dealing with a real Death Note

[The Grand Nudger]

Innocent until found guilty.

Hehehe, great ion theory, not how it works in practice. Show up charged with a dozen murders, you'll have an uphill battle convincing the jury you didn;t commit them. That's just how people work.

How would a court declare a bunch of names written in a book any more than circumstantial evidence?

Possessing an exhaustive list of victims isn;t circumstantial, not that it would matter..,mimd, because we can and do secure convictions on circumstantial evidence...most of them, in fact. What would be circumstantial, for example..is someone overhearing someone saying the defendant mumbled about killing all those sons of bitches, while scribbling in his book. Or a slew of witnesses that testify that they thought the defendant had a grudge against each and every name in there. That Sally Jane Rottencrotch said no to the dance and turned up dead, that his dad wouldn;t buy him that playstation and turned up dead, that the gas station employee carded him on his wine coolers and turned up dead.

No one would believe that he just knew everyone was going to die...-or- that he killed them by writing their names in the book. The prevailing theory would be that this book was his twisted little trophy. The only thing the defense could say was that he wrote them after the fact, but if the list was substantial enough they'd find at least one person whom he shouldn;t have known was dead, and that discredits that theory in the case of all the others. Honestly, a guy with a book full of dead names gets picked up and put under suspicion in our system.... is gonna fry.