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[Persona 5] What could Joker have ACTUALLY been charged with?

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In the interrogation room scene, according to the confession he was forced to sign, Joker's crimes as a Phantom Thief included obstruction of justice, blackmail, defamation, possessing a weapon, and manslaughter. But that was obviously written by corrupt people and do not necessarily reflect what he actually could have been charged with. So, if the police and prosecution were completely objective, what crimes could Joker have been charged with? 

For one, most of the beings in the Metaverse were not real, just figments someone's imagination, and I also doubt Japan has any laws on either stealing ethereal treasure or beating the hell out of someone's cognitive form. He also only had a toy gun, it's just that it became like real in the Metaverse. Finally, did Japanese officials even have jurisdiction over what was happening in the Metaverse? I know that the criminal codes of a lot of countries even apply to people abroad (mainly in case one of their citizens commits a serious crime elsewhere), but in another dimension?
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In theory he could have been charged with vandalism, breaking and entering, issuing threats, and conspiracy-- not for the heists themselves, but for the calling cards. Possibly also fraud or counterfeiting regarding the duplicate treasures (e.g. Kamoshida's olympic medal, Madarame's copy of *Sayuri*, Kaneshiro's fake stacks of bills...)