With the proliferation of the internet and social media, the spread of fake news has become a global issue, posing serious challenges to the research of Fake News Detection (FND) methods. With advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly evident across various industries, especially in natural language processing (NLP). LLM-based FND approaches, including Chain-of-Thought (CoT), self-reflection, and in-context learning (ICL) prompting paradigms, has shown promise but still faces challenges in effectively handling complex and nuanced content. For example, CoT paradigm faces error propagation issues, self-reflection methods suffer from the Degeneration-of-Thought (DoT) problem, and ICL paradigm is highly dependent on the quality of the provided context. To address these issues, we propose a multi-role detection method based on courtroom debates. This method involves two attorneys, representing the prosecution and the defense, as well as a judge, simulating a debate process on the authenticity of the news. First, the prosecution attempts to prove that the news is fake, while the defense tries to prove that the news is genuine. The judge evaluates the evidence presented by both sides to reach a conclusion. Next, the prosecution and defense switch roles, with each attempting to argue from the opposite standpoint, and the judge evaluates the arguments again. Finally, the judge synthesizes all arguments to issue a verdict. Extensive experiments across multiple challenging scenarios (e.g., controversial news and misleading media posts) show that this debate-based framework achieves up to 9%-11% higher accuracy than advanced LLM baselines, revealing how role switching significantly enhances detection performance. Moreover, our findings indicate that incorporating diverse perspectives reduces cognitive bias, but also highlight that LLM-based judges remain susceptible to inherent biases-especially if pretrained data include skewed narratives-underscoring the need for fairness adjustments in real-world applications. Overall, the proposed courtroom debate-based FND framework not only improves accuracy and reliability in identifying fake news but also provides an interpretable decision-making process by exposing key arguments on both sides. This underscores its potential to serve as a robust, transparent, and adaptable solution in the evolving domain of misinformation detection.