No. An undead peeled vegetable is still undead.
A sliced undead vegetable leans more to the dead side, however a high-powered lawyer might be able to paint the vegetable as simply being in an uncommunicative mood. In a vegetative state, so to speak/pun.
I fear the defense of the cosmos is becoming entangled in the courts, which means we are basically and forever fucked.
This sounds like an assignment for Catwoman. Get us out of this legal BS and back to good old productive violence, Cat !!