The DC Act: so, how common is this "lawyer gets the same punishment" thing as a trope, because I've definitely seen it before in an episode of Justice League.

It's pretty obviously an awful law, I hope we've never actually had something like this in human history, but stranger things have happened...

I hadn't seen it before, but I think it's not that strange an idea. You'll often hear people think very lowly of laywers defending 'obvious' criminals/mob bosses/terrorists, thinking they're just as bad as the people they are defending. The jump to a concept where the attorney is given the same treatment/sentence as the defendant themselves isn't that big.

It's funny, because originally, I think most cultures didn't start out with the concept of a third party acting in the interests of the defendant. So in the past in most cultures, the defendant was also the one acting as the attorney. I think in the West the concept of the attorney only started in the Early Modern period? So there you had a split across multiple persons, a defendant and the person(s) 'defending', but AA6 brings the concepts together again, but still divided in multiple person.

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