As much as I agree with you, I think he already will think like that - the minute he walks into that courtroom he is already scoping out for anyone who looks oddly suspicious.
"GUYS I KNEW THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE FROM THE FARMS THERE OR SOME OF MY DETRACTORS FROM YT ACKACKACK - I DIDN'T LET THAT BOTHER ME I STOOD TALL AND TOLD THE JUDGE THE TRUTH TO THE QUESTIONS AND WALKED OUT THE ROOM LIKE A BOSS. THE DETRACTORS WERE SHAKING IN THEIR BOOTS ACKACK *bottle crunch, finger sniff, snort*"
Reality: Phil is quiet - answers yes sir/ma'am - wobbles out of there leaning side to side like a low-rider then goes home to brag.
Oh he absolutely will, you're right. And if he later addresses going to court, he's going to lie about stahlkurs anyway. If he can't detect any definite deetrakturz, he'll say there were 10-15 in attendance. If he confirms to himself he saw one, he'll come back & say there there were 10. If a picture of him from that day starts circulating the internet, he'll insist he was gangraped at katana-point & left behind a dumpster. Or any combination of anything I just mentioned.
Right now he has regressed into pretending this is all a secret (lolol) & I have to presume that's because he's so room-temp that he thinks shutting the fuck up about it 2 days before the hearing will draw attention away from it & maybe anyone planning to attend will just forget. This dude is exclusively accustomed to gaslighting rètards, so he probably doesn't realize that this doesn't work on normal people.
If I'm wrong about that, then he has gone mostly radio silent on this topic because he's finally taking the advice his lolyur gave him months ago, which was "I can't believe I even have to say this, but clearly I do: shut the fuck up about this on the internet, you fucking mong." Because that whole recitation he gave of the imaginary conversation he had with his counsel of "Omg ur being stalker'd by idi-itz, u should get online right now & make sure u get out in front of this to ur tardience" never happened. No lawyer alive, not even the dumbest one ever, would tell their client it's a good idea to discuss their case on social media. In reality, he was probably encouraged to excise as much of that shit as possible, & not to say a word on the platforms he can't avoid. But he's Philbert Fuck You Burnell & he's just barely smart enough to know that his ability to buck consequence & authority is in the throes of its death rattle, so he did the opposite.
Either way, he's terrified & what he wants is for someone/s he'll be able to point to & have a tangible reason to try & get them to close the public out of future proceedings.
So no, don't take his picture.
And to the DSDickrider Brigade that lurks here & just read this, even if you were to go do this just to help him out (I cannot presume that people at such a level of reptile brain do not exist), lol, we will still have the pleasure of watching this repellent motherfucker mentally decay into the bowels of this Hell he built for himself.
But yeah. Watch, listen, take notes, report back. Don't break any rules, don't go near him, & jfc don't take any fucking pictures. At best he's just gonna show up all slovenly in his fucking ill-fitting wedding tux. Nothing to see here.