"I am your father" and that does not justify cutting off his son's hand. In Chile, Darth Vader appeared Sunday before the Valparaiso Court of Appeal in a mock trial held on the occasion of the country's Heritage Day. He was on trial for cutting off Luke Skywalker's hand in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
"What is condemned is mutilation, not what Mr. Vader has done before," the court ruled. For this reason and "taking into account the penalties provided for by the Penal Code of Space [...], he will be sentenced to a just sentence." Darth Vader will have to "remain frozen for 30 years in carbonite" and will be forbidden "to approach for 30 years the victim, Luke, at a distance of at least three planets". In addition, Darth Vader was forever banned from the "dark use of force" and his lightsaber.
The aim of this life-size reconstructed trial was to "bring justice, so little understood, closer to citizens," said Maria del Rosario Lavin, president of the Valparaiso Court of Appeal. "Because people know well about trials and courts, but very little about the role" of an appeals court, she said.
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