The Cinema Sins people have aimed their mighty guns at Daredevil, but they missed the biggest mistake in the film!

Do you know what it is?

Early in the film, when that rapist is on the stand, Matt sure seems to think it’s a criminal trial and that this scumbag rapist will face justice, but everything about the scene is totally wrong. Matt is not a prosecutor or a District Attorney, yet he is clearly questioning the accused rapist on the stand as if this is a criminal trial. Also, if this were a criminal trial, the victim would not be sitting at Matt’s table. District Attorneys represent ‘the people’, as in ‘the state’, not the actual victims. The only way this trial could make sense would be if it were a civil trial and the victim was suing the rapist. In which case, even if the court found in favor of the plaintiff, the guy wasn’t going to go to jail or anything.

So Matt Murdock’s view of ‘justice’ is suing acquitted criminals after the fact? I realize they probably got off on the actual criminal charges, so why not become a prosecutor and make sure they don’t get off? Or why not be the kind of defense attorney who defends wrongfully charged people? Which, frankly, can’t be all that often. And there are times when defense attorneys are assigned to a case by a judge, so there’s no way he could only get by without defending some guilty people. That’s what lawyers do.