History Recap / TheFlash2014S4E10TheTrialOfTheFlash

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Both Iris and Cecille believe that the trial would easily be in their favor if Barry just outs himself as Central City's champion, the Flash.

* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: Both Iris and Cecille believe that the trial would easily be in their favor if Barry just outs himself as Central City's champion, the Flash.

** One of the few things the episode gets right is that Barry not testifying is a huge WTF in a trial. The prosecution can't force a witness to testify, but if the defense doesn't call the witness to testify, it throws up major red flags to any reasonable person and makes the defendant look guiltyaf. Assuming the show simply failed to give us a whole lot of other things that didn't make the case against Barry an obvious frame job (how/why did he get Devoe's body into his own apartment without the latter's wheelchair, for example?), the fact that Barry refused to testify in his own defense would have been the nail in the coffin.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Barry's trial is completed within a ''day''. At best, a trial like this would take at least a couple of weeks as the prosecution would have more witness besides Singh and Marlize, and judges usually sentence defendants at a separate hearing. In addition, the prosecutor is clearly arguing his case during the opening statement, which is generally frowned upon.
** Also, Cecile interrupts the prosecutor's questioning of Marlize to grill her about the photo of her and [=DeVoe=]/Dominic, immediately after receiving it. First of all, each side needs to wait for the other to ''finish'' their direct examination of a witness before cross-examining them. Also, one side can't use evidence, even newly-discovered evidence, without first giving the other side a chance to look at and object to it.

** Former[[note]]she was mentioned to have stepped down just for Barry's sake[[/note]] D.A. Cecille becomes Barry's counsel for the proceedings, instead of Redik the AmoralAttorney who wanted to take the case merely for the limelight. The position of AmoralAttorney is instead with new D.A. (and the trial's prosecutor) Slater who may or may not be in with the [=DeVoes=]' schemes.

* CourtroomEpisode: [[CaptainObvious It's right there in the title]].

** Also, Cecile interrupts the prosecutor's questioning of Marlize to grill her about the photo of her and [=DeVoe=]/Dominic, immediately after receiving it. First of all, each side needs to wait for the other to ''finish'' their direct examination of a witness before cross-examining them. Also, one side can't introduce evidence while the other side is still presenting their case (not that Cecile properly enters the photo into evidence anyway). Finally, one side can't use evidence, even newly-discovered evidence, without first giving the other side a chance to look at and object to it.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Barry's trial is completed within a ''day''. At most a trial like this would take at least a couple of weeks as the prosecution would have more witness besides Singh and Marlize and judges usually sentence defendants at a separate hearing. In addition, the prosecutor is clearly arguing his case during the opening statement, which is generally frowned upon.

** Also, Cecile interrupts the prosecutor's questioning of Marlize to grill her about the photo of her and DeVoe/Dominic, immediately after receiving it. First of all, each side needs to wait for the other to ''finish'' their direct examination of a witness before cross-examining them. Also, one side can't introduce evidence while the other side is still presenting their case (not that Cecile properly enters the photo into evidence anyway). Finally, one side can't use evidence, even newly-discovered evidence, without first giving the other side a chance to look at and object to it.

** The DA's opening statement mirror's Barry's "I need you to believe in the impossible" speech from the PilotEpisode.

* TheUnreveal: Despite Iris and Barry's prodding, Marlize and Clifford are GenreSavvy enough to still not reveal what their EvilPlan actually is.

* AntiVillain: Fallout has absolutely no control over his powers and is horrified by them.

* See also LikeFatherLikeSon down below.

** Earth-15 being a barren, desolate world is [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Earth-15 not just something the]] [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Earth_15 episode's writers pulled out of their asses]].

* HistoryRepeats: Ralph finds himself in a situation where he has to plant evidence again, but this time around he's an unwilling accessory to the actual planter, Joe.

* BittersweetEnding: Barry stops Fallout from nuking Central City, but he's found guilty at his trial and is sentenced to life without parole in Iron Heights, which is basically a death sentence for anyone in law enforcement.

* KickTheDog: The judge makes it a point of condemning Barry as harshly as possible when declaring him guilty.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [=DeVoe=] shows up at Barry's sentencing obstensibly to mock him but when Barry refuses to give up on the idea of stopping his plans [=DeVoe=] notably gets annoyed and just leaves.