"'Ladies, gentlemen, and assorted honorable entities,'" the tyranny demon mocks, "we are gathered to judge a thief, bandit, robber, murderer, torturer, and oathbreaker. I've no doubt that some of you lot will try to claim that all that's Lawful and Good. It isn't. In re Barrow, in re Willie, in re Babylon. We are here to judge a man who Charmed a farmer into letting him into his house then slit his throat while he slept to steal his purse. We are here to judge a man who robbed and murdered his way across his homeland, then did the same thing to a different country the moment he crossed the border. And we're here to judge a man who never really stopped doing any of these things. My 'colleague' from Hell has explained all the murdering he did, starting when he was a child, but - as far as I can tell - her argument that this was Lawful murdering, instead of the normal Chaotic kind, it's not based on them being his slaves, it's not based on him being under orders, it's just that murdering someone is perfectly fine in Cheliax as long as you get away with it. You can carve a kid into pieces and as long as you hide the evidence well enough, nobody gives a shit. And here I thought it was a Lawful country!"
"Now, this isn't a very complicated trial. It's about someone who spent his life killing people. Mostly he killed people who he disliked, but he didn't dislike them because they were Evil, he disliked them because he had a grudge against them. He was fine with working with a demoniac antipaladin of Socothbenoth, Demon Lord Of Getting Away With Shit By Being Funny, Whose obedience is 'ruin someone's day socially without them knowing you did it!' He was a cultist of Norgorber, and was completely fine working with a Norgorber priestess who was a paranoid, mad, murderous enchanter, alchemist and thief just because it worked out for him. He prayed to Baphomet because Baphomet hates Asmodeus and he hates Asmodeus and so that meant they could be besties, which mocks the idea that he ever followed the laws of anywhere - Absalom bans demon lord worship. Hate is Evil; in re Hall, in re Mount, and hate was why he did, well, everything. Hate and greed - Abadar v Mammon, in re Wilde - and pride - Asmodeus v Aroden, in re Wilde.
"Now, there's people who say that he 'redeemed himself', in re Newton. And I say - sure! He atoned, in re Newton. From Lawful Evil to Chaotic Evil. He regretted working for Asmodeus because Asmodeus screwed him over, he "took responsibility" by screwing Asmodeus back over, he "changed his relationship" with Asmodeus by trying to murder his mooks, he tried to repair the consequences of his actions by killing Asmodeans, and he sure changed his behavior from working for Asmodeus to working against Asmodeus. But holding a grudge isn't actually enough to atone - in re Binghe, you can atone from any alignment to any other alignment. He repented of being an Asmodean, but to repent to a Good alignment you have to actually try to do good. Did he try to resurrect his old dead mentor, who he helped stone to death? Nope! Did he try to do something about the souls of his murder victims? Abyss no. He tried to fight Asmodeus because he hated him. Chaotic Evil, Chaotic Evil."
"My colleage in Elysium says he did good. Maybe he did a little! But he sure didn't try. Last year this court tried we tried Cloden Dever for being evil, we decided his 'myriad daily actions' made him Neutral Evil, and he went to Hell. He died because the decedent decided to set the mansion he was in on fire. Why? Because a Chelish noblewoman owned it - or, uh, had owned it before the decedent killed her! Was that Cloden? No, he was one of her slaves who was locked in a room for punishment. Alex here broke into the cell, murdered his guards, saw him there chained to a wall, and went out to go kill Asmodeans. He didn't think about Cloden Dever. He thought about murdering Asmodeans. This is just one example of him putting his desire to hurt Asmodeus over any desire to save slaves - every time he raided a Chelish estate, there was some Cloden Dever, some slave or serf or paid hireling who'd never done anything to him, who never signed up for a fight and never wanted to fight, and who the decedent made "collateral damage" because he didn't care enough not to. Has he saved slaves? Sure! He's hired them to spy on their masters, promised them their freedom if they did, and then not gone back on it. You can be Chaotic Evil and sometimes keep your word - especially if it gets you something. Which this did, because seventy percent of these slaves kept working for him afterwards. He figured he'd get something out of freeing them, so he did. Ask him what he sacrificed for Good, and you've got nothing that was an actual sacrifice."
"The decedent is Evil because he never cared enough not to be. And the decedent is chaotic because when you spend your entire life on treachery, theft, and flat-out ignoring any law you dislike, you're chaotic. That's my opening statement."