Courtroom

* Atticus Finch
* Old Monroe County Courthouse

The **courtroom**, appearing as both a courtroom of the District Court in Los Angeles, California, and the courtroom of the Old Monroe County Courthouse, is where Phoenix Wright and Atticus Finch are set to rap in *Phoenix Wright vs Saul Goodman vs Atticus Finch*.

## Information on the Location

A courtroom is the enclosed space in which courts of law are held in front of a judge. A number of courtrooms, which may also be known as "courts", may be housed in a courthouse. In recent years, courtrooms have been equipped with audiovisual technology to permit everyone present to clearly hear testimony and see exhibits.

### District Court

The District Court in Los Angeles contains at least nine identical courtrooms. These are the main battlegrounds for defense attorneys and prosecutors. During a trial, the defense attorney argues his or her case against the prosecutor by cross-examining the prosecution's witnesses, usually to find information that contradicts the facts (due to perjury or forgetfulness on the witness's part), though other purposes can be fulfilled in this way as well. Trials are conducted as bench trials, which means that the judge who presides over these trials can freely render the verdict. Under the Jurist System in Vera Misham's murder trial, the judge could still hand down guilty verdicts based on accumulated penalties, but otherwise, final judgment was given to a six-member jury to make by consensus.

### Old Monroe County Courthouse

The Old Monroe County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building in Monroeville, Alabama that served as the Monroe County courthouse from 1903 to 1967. It is significant as an Alabama literary landmark due to its association with Harper Lee and Truman Capote, both of whom spent their childhood in Monroeville and featured the courthouse in their work. Capote mentions it in his A Christmas Memory and it inspired the fictional courthouse in Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird.

The film adaptation of Lee's novel was heavily influenced by the courthouse, with production designers measuring and photographing the building and then recreating a close duplicate of the interior on a sound stage for filming of the courtroom scenes. The producers originally wanted to use the actual courthouse in Monroeville as the movie set, but due to the modernization of the town since Lee's birth in addition to the poor audio quality in the courthouse, they made the backlot in Hollywood instead. Due to the accuracy of the recreated courthouse in Hollywood, many Alabamians still believe that the film was shot in Monroeville. The Old Courthouse in Monroe County is now a theater for many plays on "To Kill a Mockingbird" as well a museum dedicated to multiple authors from Monroeville, including Lee.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2021. The courthouse is now one of the Monroe County Museums and is operated as the Old Courthouse Museum. The building has been restored to a 1930s appearance and also features exhibits about Capote and Lee.

## Appearance in the Rap Battle

The courtrooms are set to be where Wright and Finch rap for the entirety of their verses in *Phoenix Wright vs Saul Goodman vs Atticus Finch*.

## Trivia

* The courtroom is the first location to get a page on this wiki.
* The courtroom is the first location to appear in two versions in the same battle, as there is one version for Wright's background and one version for Finch's background. It is not, however, shared by the third opponent, Saul Goodman.

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