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OK, maybe he isn't the prosecutor. Nevertheless, he and Yunno are the guys who give Fate her lines. Where is her lawyer?
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The standard Space Time Administration Bureau Arrest speech:
"You are under arrest for violating Administration Bureau Laws. If you cease your hostilities and surrender, you may be granted the opportunity to plead in your own defence."
Note the emphasis: IF you surrender, Tehn (and by implication, ONLY then), are you given the chance to plead in your own defence.
Fate didn't surrender, and, by extension according to this statement (used several times in A's and StrikerS) therefore does not have the right to a defence.
As a result, there is no lawyer because she has no right to one at this stage. Having not met the terms of the arrest statement, she isn't entitled to plead in her own defence, and therefore presumably doesn't have the right to have someone else plead in her defence either.
If this is the case, Chrono's coaching may be his way of bending the rules slightly and giving her the benefits of a defence counsel she isn't ,strictly speaking, legally entitled to.