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In Pakistan the courts are some of the worst on the planet. If you are rich you get justice or decides what justice even means.
Chances are a big shot lawyer/politican has connections with political families or the military. When you have that you do what you want with impunity.
The junior lawyer likely knew that. If he was wronged gravely this was probably the only thing he could do.
This reads like something out of a Phoenix Wright case >

Seems likely any posthumous objection would be sustained >


"The killer, a junior lawyer who was wearing his gown, opened fire at close range and then handed himself over to the police," said Ijaz Khan, a senior police official.
A legal assistant, Muhammad Rizwan, who witnessed the shooting, said the attacker told police: "don't shoot, I had a feud with him and I have taken my revenge," before being arrested.

Honor killing >

you'd think a lawyer could come up with some better way to provide consequence to criminal action
like a court or something