JUSTICE SYSTEM

Genesis City and the cities in the Frontier operate with a different justice system. As generally, you got three instances of justice, the Frontier has the fourth and the fifth instances to deal with alpha matters (the fourth instance) and super matters (to deal with crimes committed by supers).

**Customary law –** here the common courts deal with minor problems, like consumer complaints, robbery, traffic disturbances committed by citizens that are considered regulars. To be considered regular by the law, a Gennish will not have any relations with super activities, such as alpha using, manifesting, sharing, or receiving for any illegal purposes. Those crimes are dealt with by the police and judged by 1st instance judges.

**Law division – Police**

**District Courts –** The small courts, they judge cases involving the public interest in Gen City, but that do not affect the entire Frontier or outside the city. As Genesis is based in sectors or areas, we have specific courts to judge each instance, for example, cases involving DeGen Alley will e judged by the DeGen Alley Court. Therefore, arrests that lead to District Courts cases must be conducted by the police branch responsible for that area or sector. This system is being fought by some agents, including Griff because it opens a breach for jurisdiction problems. For example, a lawyer could dismantle a case against a kingpin that was arrested in the Docks by Griff, but as Griff has no jurisdiction and was acting on behalf of the League, he couldn’t have made the arrest, so the criminal went free.

**Law division – District Detectives, District Agents, District Investigators, etc. (higher status inside the force)**

**Great Courts –** White-collar crimes, fraud, and federal and state crimes are judged here. Politicians are considered to have what is called **Privilege of Law**, which consists in being judged only by Great Judges, pointed out by a council that is most of the time influenced by the same politicians. Kato’s been trying to end this system since he became the leader of the league, and recently he got more support from the Frontier chancellor. As Great Courts judge bigger cases involving business, politics, and matters alike, they are pointed by the Frontier Government and the City of Gen City and total 5 Great Judges in G.C. There are 17 Great Judges in the Frontier.

**Law division – Gen City Bureau (The FBI of Genesis City. Document about it must be ready by Friday)**

**Alpha Courts (Lower Courts) –** the Alpha Courts have two distinct sectors, which constitute two instances of law themselves. The Alpha Courts are responsible for crimes using alpha. So if someone commits a robbery or a felony, in Gen City Law there are two distinct types of it, if it was done without the use of alpha or devices moved with alpha, it will be considered Customary crime or District crime, so it will be judged by one of the Lower Alpha Courts. On the other hand, if there’s the use, sharing, receiving, interception, transfer, or any manifestation of alpha and it wasn’t committed by what is considered a super (the first case where the term *super* was used was Lawcett vs. Rational Publications about the cover of the war by two publishing houses in Gen City[es1] ). On the Alpha Courts, the trials happen with the mandatory presence of the Alpha Crimes Division, an agency with supers that are cops and act as countermeasures for any attempt from the offenders.

**Law division – Alpha Crimes Division**

**Alpha Courts (Higher Courts) –** When a felony is committed by a super, then the crime has to be judged in the Higher Courts. The idea came from the League and de debates they had with the politicians in the first years after the war. The trial for a super must be conducted with agents from the ACD, but the ones considered supers agents. At first, the presence of one member of the league was mandatory, but the law changed when the cases started to increase and the league couldn’t be there all the time. Also, as requested by Vee, there is an alpha transfer (extractor mode) attached to the offender, so he cannot attempt to escape the trial. Depending on the case, a criminal might be sentenced to use an extractor for life.

**Law division – Alpha Crimes Division/Special Affairs (Super agents are called officially Special Affairs Agents)**

**Appealing Courts (the spiral courts) –** Called spiral courts by the dwellers, the Appealing Courts offer lots of bureaucracy for those who try to appeal a sentence. That happens because, in several cases, jurisdiction has to be presented again, and some particularities of each case might take the papers back and forth to the same court, almost repeating the steps, similar to a spiral stair. An appeal can take years to be processed, and it is not debated any changes, especially in super cases, in which the league stimulates the longing to keep a villain for the most time possible behind bars.

[es1]Direct Reference to the first time the term Superhero was coined, in the case Fawcett Publications vs National Comics Publications, in the 50’s.