One Angry Man

Driving home from work, Togusa is pulled into a violent quarrel when a woman, Yukari Shizuno, stumbles in front of his car and cries for help against her boyfriend. Trying to shield her, Togusa fires into the man's prosthetic limbs to stop him, yet he cannot keep the young woman from being killed. Because the shooting happened while he was off duty, a preliminary hearing is called to sort out the facts.

The defendant's parents retain a prominent lawyer, who immediately works to discredit Togusa, faulting his choice of firearm and then arguing that he fired out of a buried loathing for cyborgs, while blaming faulty prosthetic parts. As this plays out, Aramaki, Batou, and Kusanagi dig into suspicious connections beneath the case, and Kusanagi weighs the political motives of Kusunoki, a rising prosecutor propped up by Kazundo Gouda.

Kusanagi covertly hacks Togusa through a Ghost infiltration key, feeding him sensitive intelligence, while Batou uncovers illegal modifications in the defendant Izumi's body that Aramaki turns into leverage. After the court adjourns, Togusa loses his temper and unleashes a blistering outburst, announcing he is quitting Section 9, accusing the attorney Ueda of intimidation, and swearing to drag the collusion between prosthetics makers and the courts into the light. The sudden airing of damaging evidence makes the defense drop its case against Togusa, and the state files murder charges against the suspect. Soon after, word spreads that Ueda and Izumi were gravely hurt in a suspicious car crash, and Boma is glimpsed getting rid of his vehicle. Togusa pays his respects to the victim before going home.

The tenth episode of Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG carries the subtitle TRIAL. It premiered in Japan on May 1, 2004, and in English on February 4, 2006, directed by Toshiyuki Kawano from a script by Yoshiki Sakurai, sitting between The Hope Named Despair and Kusanagi's Labyrinth. The wiki notes that Japan actually uses the term Public Prosecutor rather than District Attorney, and that the title likely nods to the courtroom classic Twelve Angry Men.