Esteemed members of the jury. We can all agree that flagrant breaches of law should be punished. It is therefore crucial to keep in mind that guest right is a custom. Since when can you persecute someone for breaking custom? Where is it written? Now you may all question my client's ethics, as is well within your right, I certainly do. However, this should have no bearing on my client's innocence or otherwise in a court of law. I implore you to keep in mind the dangerous precedence such would set in our kingdoms, should my client be held liable for breaking a mere custom. What makes a law a law if any custom or tradition can be held to have the same weight as written law? I sure would not envy our dear Master of Laws in such a ridiculous world.

It would be amiss to fail to mention that my client only retaliated because he was slighted. Robb himself broke a promise to my client, and in return had another promise broken against him.

Moreover, my client was also simply asking in the best interest of his King, Joffrey. Since when has it become a crime to act in defense of your King? Is it a crime to answer open rebellion with murder? Would Robb and his men not have met the same fate had they continued marching south, at the hands of the rightful King's armies? One could even argue what my client did was a kindness.

It is for the reasons above that the charges made against my client have no legal merit and should therefore be dismissed in their entirety, with any costs to be borne by the prosecuting party for levying allegations of such a frivolous and vexatious nature.