When you're in a difficult situation that calls for careful oratory and negotiation, you should let the best roleplayer in your group handle it.

Otherwise something like this can happen.

Transcript

Poggle the Lesser: You are making a mockery of my courtroom and I'm not going to allow it.
Count Dookû: Whay did we need zis trial? Cannot we simply kill zem?
Nute Gunray: Patience.
Poggle the Lesser: You are sentenced to death by firing squad.
Nute Gunray: See?
Padmé: No, you're sentenced to death by firing squad!
Poggle the Lesser: No, actually you are.
Padmé: The defence rests.
Poggle the Lesser: Bailiff, take them to the cells.
Padmé: Look, you can't do this to us! The Chancellor will hear of it! He owes me a few favours, you know!
Crowd in public gallery: <Gasp!>
Padmé: One word from me and he'll carpet bomb your entire planet!
Crowd in public gallery: <Gasp!>
Poggle the Lesser: Well, that changes everything.
Padmé: See, they're eating out of my hands.
Poggle the Lesser: You are sentenced to death by being dismembered and eaten by wild beasts in the arena!
Anakin: Eating your hands off, maybe.
Padmé: Nobody's losing a hand while I'm in charge.