Now, pre-acid Harvey Dent would never win a case by using courtroom drama in order to present a false idea or distract from the truth, but don’t doubt that he absolutely knew how to work up a crowd and get people on his side through charismatic grandstanding and putting on a dramatic scene. See: one of the few Harvey scenes I enjoyed from the Dark Knight trilogy - socking Maroni’s henchman in the face while being put at gunpoint, expertly dismantling the gun, and viciously dragging Maroni’s taste in firearms to his face as a means of redirecting the court’s attention from the henchman’s attempt to derail the proceedings, right back onto Maroni himself, where it belonged, and in doing so winning the whole room to his corner with the dramatic show of blase-faire.
