Line #59 Headscratchers/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth


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3	* Isn’t it a bit redundant in the ''Ace Attorney'' universe to make the perpetrator break down into a MotiveRant before he's anywhere near a courtroom? There's at least one possible exception given (the question of whether or not Lance was justified in killing Oliver will be raised in trial), but it's like the game's claiming that police who aren't evil or incompetent shouldn't arrest anyone unless they confess first... which kinda renders the next step pointless.
4	** That's not the police, that's just Edgeworth, who wants to be super-sure he has the right suspect.
5	** Ultimately, this is done for the purposes of gameplay. Having to go through the investigation where you clearly prove that X is the killer and then having to go through the courtroom session where you prove that X is the killer would be redundant and boring.
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7	* Why did Edgeworth in case 4 of ''Investigations'' think that Badd was going pull out a gun on him? I mean, yes, it's not uncommon for a detective pull a gun out of his jacket, but they were in a ''courthouse'' with ''other officers in the room''.
8	** Calisto Yew did end up pulling a gun on him, in a courthouse, with Detective Badd in the room. Seeing as how Badd just projects that aura of "mess with me and you'll regret it," It isn't too much of a stretch.
9	** Also, he reached for the mirror so ''fast'' that, by the time Edgeworth realized that Badd wouldn't actually pull a gun on him in the courthouse, it was already clear that that wasn't what he was doing.
10	** Could just be nerves about meeting such an important detective. He's 19 years old, talking to a guy so badass he could put Chuck Norris to shame, there are two corpses in the room right next to him, and and ''then'' said badass suddenly reaches into his coat where a gun would normally be...I could see where he was coming from.
11	** Badd literally baits Edgeworth into thinking he might pull a gun on him, posing a seemingly threatening question and then reaching into his coat while glaring ominously. Anyone in that situation would probably feel at least a little unease, regardless of circumstances. It’s not like Edgeworth is concerned enough to scream for help or run away; he just tenses up briefly.
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13	* Why was Ema detained for questioning in AAI, case 3 anyways? Oldbag was a witness, but Ema just sort of wandered in. Lang already has several forensic investigators, so he really doesn't need the help of a vacationing high school student.
14	** He probably just didn't want her helping Edgeworth, so he "detained her for questioning" so she'd be out of the way.
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16	* In case 4, when Byrne Faraday is accused, he is immediately removed from the case. Yet there are at least three cases in other games that involve accusing the prosecutor (Von Karma, Godot, Ga’ran) where the accused is allowed to keep prosecuting. I can understand there being two different responses for two different crimes the prosecutor is accused of (theft vs. murder), but then why is the more severe measure taken in response to theft instead of murder?
17	** The cases in question aren’t 1:1 comparable, and there are some things to keep in mind. 1.) The defendant Mack Rell had accused Faraday, whereas in the other cases, it’s always the defense attorney who accuses the prosecutor, not the defendant. 2.) Rell was accusing Faraday of being the Yatagarasu, not of committing the murder that Rell was on trial for. 3.) Rell accusing Faraday was revealed to all be a ploy set up by his defense attorney, who proceeded to murder both of them during the ensuing recess. The courts probably started to require more evidence than just an accusation to prevent such a tragedy from ever repeating.
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19	* In Case 2, why does the plane take off in Borginia, refuel in Zheng Fa, and then land in America when the distance between Europe and North America is obviously much shorter? It makes sense in the Japanese version of the game, as the setting of the game is, well, Japan, but I still feel like something could have been done to address that. And for that matter, why is Edgeworth in Borginia in the first place?
20	** Well, it '''is''' assumed that the setting for the localized version is somewhere akin to Los Angeles. That is, it's on the west coast. A flight passing over Asia could conceivably be faster than the alternative... besides which the first class options up to Edgeworth's standards are probably few and far between. As to why he's there, well, he '''is''' studying foreign legal systems...
21	** Also, they were loading and unloading cargo at Zheng Fa, not just refueling. It's possible that Edgeworth was unable to book a more direct flight.
22	** Also, I don't think either country's location is made completely clear. It's possible that the two countries are close enough together that it wouldn't be that much of a delay.
23	*** While this is true for Zheng Fa, it’s mentioned in Apollo Justice that Borginia is a small country in northern Europe.
24	** It’s implied in case 3 that Edgeworth relied on Ernest Amano’s connections when traveling outside the country. If that’s true, given the Amano Group’s ties to the smuggling ring, it might make sense that the best flight Ernest could arrange for Edgeworth was the one being used for smuggling purposes by his conglomerate and the ring.
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26	* Why isn't Lauren Paups arrested at the end of I-3? She WAS in on the fake kidnapping, after all.
27	** She was, we just didn't see it. Her little bit during the credits has her talking about the guard at the Detention Center.
28	** Specifically, she mentions she was let off easy because the kidnapping was staged all along. And given the severity of the crimes Ernest and Lance were faced with, it’s possible she was granted some clemency in exchange for testifying against one or both of them.
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30	* I-3: Edgeworth clearly hears the mirror in the haunted house breaking, but not the gunshot which followed shortly thereafter. He claims the latter is because of the soundtrack in the haunted house - the sound supposedly blended in. But wouldn't the gunshot be a lot louder than the mirror breaking? Why wouldn't the sound of the mirror breaking have blended in too?
31	** The gunshot came ''before'' the mirror breaking, since the victim was shot ''through'' the mirror, no? As for why one blended when the other did not, perhaps the soundtrack happens to include gunshot sounds, but no mirror-breaking sounds?
32	** The bullet was fired at point-blank range, passing through the victim’s costume and his body before shattering the mirror from the hidden part of the hallway behind it. It’s reasonable to assume that all those things the bullet had to pass through could also have muffled the sound.
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34	* When Edgeworth gets into court at the end of AAI, there's no defense attorney. Could be accepted as "the court hasn't quite started yet", except that Edgeworth still needs to shout OBJECTION.
35	** Because it was the end of the game, and the protagonist always shouts "OBJECTION!" at the end of the game. And, in Edgeworth's own words: "I never allow an opportunity to shout 'objection!' pass me by!"
36	*** But that ''wasn't'' an opportunity. Nothing was happening, at all, which would be a legitimate reason to shout "OBJECTION!". Unless, of course, Edgeworth really has MediumAwareness, knew it was the end of the game, and was aware that the protagonist always shouts "OBJECTION!" at the end of the game.
37	*** It was a sort of montagey representation of the upcoming legal battle? Perhaps Edgeworth has more in common with Apollo and his "Chords of Steel" training than we thought, and he was practicing?
38	*** In that case I am now convinced that young Apollo was watching said trial with a notepad in his hands, jotting down the words "Note: Good Lawyer trains his yelling carefully".
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40	* How does Lang's backstory make any sense, at all? He brags about arresting people because they're in the way and openly breaks the law to do so. Yet he hates the prosecutors because they couldn't possibly bring a case to court in which the lead agent was openly admitting to arresting people out of convenience rather than reasonable suspicion?
41	** I think it's supposed to reflect Edgeworth's own morals when he first became a prosecutor as Manfred had taught him; you never know who's the criminal, so get them all guilty. In the final case, he really does grow and seem to realize he shouldn't take out his anger on Edgeworth or other prosecutors, but rather on those ''really'' deserving of it. Sorta what Edgeworth himself did with Wright in some of the last cases of the first game. -shrugs- I just felt it was a good contrast and he was an overall interesting character. But I can see where you're coming from.
42	*** He also has a reason to dislike Edgeworth in I-3: he probably suspected from the start that Ernest Amano would be covering for his son and had hired a pet prosecutor to make sure guilt falls on the "right" person (Lauren). So Lang sidelines Edgeworth as much as he can (probably would have left him locked in that room the whole time to keep him out of the way) until Edgeworth reveals that he isn't Amano's stooge and that he has no agenda except to find out what really happened. When he and Kay prove instrumental to bringing Amano down, Lang starts to respect his methods a bit more, but in I-5 he still doubts Edgeworth will be able to use the law to take down someone above the law (and he may be right about that).
43	** The most likely explanation however, is that Lang's attitude is supposed to be a huge "stare into your own petard", to the Japanese police force. '''"Lang goes around arresting people when any vague fact points to them?! What an idiot!" - Says the people of the country who's police force is infamous for arresting innocent people on flimsy evidence then forcing them to confess resulting in a huge backlog of false convictions.''' Lang's logic was supposed to be a way to point out how insanely stupid the Japanese police force's logic was [at the time of the game's release. Things are different now thanks to a new system], by shoving an exaggeration of their own logic into their face.
44	** Take notice that while Lang’s philosophy isn’t so different, his methods tend to be much more thorough than that of any other detectives we’ve seen, to the point where his initial suspects are all cleared before being taken to court. He let Meekins go once it was proven that his gun wasn’t the murder weapon, and in case 5 he suspected Larry because Larry was seen near the crime scene under suspicious circumstances and the real murder weapon was the one thing in the embassy that they weren’t allowed to investigate. As false arrests go, that’s not that bad.
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46	* Why is the term "Yagaratsu" untranslated? None of the three members are indicated to be Japanese in the American version. Why not call themselves Morrigan, which the wiki says is a basis for it in the first place?
47	** "Look out! It's the Great Thief Morrigan!" It may just be me, but Morrigan is the worst name for a "professional" thief moniker.
48	*** Point taken. I would have gone with Munnin a raven that brought the truth to Odin in Myth/NorseMythology. Probably still obscure but at least it fits the Groups background better.
49	** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-legged_bird#Japan Because it has a meaning in Japanese mythology.]]
50	*** My point was neither Yew, Faraday, or Badd have any indication that they're Japanese. It undeniably made sense in the original Japanese but considering the [[{{Woolseyism}} general translation stance]] using a Japanese name in a game which pretends that it takes place in America is odd.
51	*** Well, the one who ''really'' came up with the symbol, Alba apparently was into Japanese culture as seen by the Steel Samurai, so maybe they just thought, "Well why not use the Japanese raven, then?"
52	*** Besides, as pointed out in the Wikipedia article linked here, it's also in Chinese, Korean and Egyptian myths, too. That's almost all of Asia and parts of North Africa. People will be able to get the significance of the symbol, never you fear.
53	** Byrne and Kay Faraday look as though they could easily be Japanese, and Calisto Yew isn’t that far off, either. Since they were the more key members of the Yatagarasu, it’s not inconceivable that either of them came up with the name.
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55	* In case 3, why wasn't the fake mirror wall in the Haunted House blueprints? That seems like the kind of thing that would go on a blueprint.
56	** They added it after the house was already built, and thus it wasn't on the original blueprints?
57	** Besides, the fake mirror wall was a secret, used to create the disappearing badger trick. If someone who wasn't part of the theme park's staff got a hold of it, the secret to the trick would be spilled.
58	*** Wouldn't there need to be maintenance or redesigning in the haunted house? Or what about the people building and installing the mirror wall? Surely there would need to be some blueprints for that section so those people could work on it. Why not turn those blueprints over to the police?
59	*** Magic tricks and the secrecy behind them appear to be taken extremely seriously in this universe, and no one knew where the ransom exchange would take place until Edgeworth got the call from the kidnappers. The haunted house floor plan was probably one of many blueprints that the park staff turned over to the police, so the staff probably didn’t figure that the presence of the mirror wall would make enough of a difference to tell them about it.
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61	* In ''Investigations'', it seems that delicate political events where both countries' fates hang in the balance are decided... at those countries' [[strike:Japanese]] American embassies. Priceless national treasures of those countries are similarly kept at those embassies instead of inside the concerned countries themselves.
62	** Presumably, they do have other priceless national treasures in their own countries, it's just the Primidux statues that are at the embassy.
63	*** Also, that particular embassy did provide a convenient neutral site for representatives of the two countries to meet. Other embassies may not have been able to provide the same. Remember, those two countries were ''in conflict'' with each other until very recently, so a neutral site would be more or less required for the two countries to settle their differences.
64	** The national treasure thing also has some justification on Palaeno's part, since he does everything he can to advertise Babahl, and his guards are eager to let people into the embassy.
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66	* In ''Investigations'', couldn't the killer have argued that Coachen was the one who attacked him first, and thus the killing was self-defence, as he had for the other killing?
67	** Not really, because they'd already established that he'd had a motive for killing Coachen. A whole part of his argument about killing De*Masque was that he didn't know the guy and he was in his office; self-defense is perfectly plausible. With Coachen, however, that wasn't possible. They knew each other, and once we found that he'd betrayed Alba, the motive for his death became clear. His argument was "if he was my subordinate, then what's my motive? I don't have one, so you can't pin this on me", and so you had to prove it.
68	** Yes, but Coachen also had a motive for trying to kill ''him'', so self-defense would still be plausible. Then again, he did bring a knife into the theater, but maybe he could make up some nonsense argument that he suspected that Coachen would try to kill him...although the only reason that he would suspect that Coachen would do that is if he ''was'' the head of the smuggling ring, so I suppose he couldn't get out of the killing without admitting to being the smuggling ring head, which would make him culpable for every other death that occurred in the game (bar Oliver Deacon's), so it amounts to the same thing really.
69	*** Also, if he tried to argue that he expected Coachen to try to kill him, the prosecution would then ask “Then why did you place yourself in a situation in which he could do so by going to the dressing room without any security?”
70	** Coachen didn’t have a motive for trying to kill Alba. All he wanted to do was remove him as ambassador, something Alba acknowledges in his confession. Coachen tried to have the real Primidux Statue stolen so that Palaeno would become Cohdopia’s new ambassador, and with the counterfeit bill plates already in his possession and Alba excluded from his role in the embassy, Coachen would have everything he needed to replace Alba as the ringleader without needing to kill him at all.
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72	* In I-3--one of the big cusps of the case is that Edgeworth's blood being on the left side of the sword and that Edgeworth was hit from the right, meaning the assailant had to have been right-handed. But how does this discount a left-handed backhand swipe, which would've had the same results?
73	** Not really because this would have still ended up being incriminating. Like Edgwworth says, the true culprit used his non-Domestic hand to make the attacker seem like someone else. If the killer had have used a left-handed backhand swipe then it would seem pretty strange seeing as how the killer had no reason to pull of such a complicated attack just to hit someone who had there back turn to them. Also, this means that it would have been more incriminating because, the true culprit, who was left-handed, would have been in more danger of getting found out. Therefor, the killer wouldn't have pulled of such a move and if they had have then it would still lead t o the same conclusion that was made.
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75	* Here's what confuses me: So in case 5, right at the climax of the middle section, Lang takes a bullet to the leg for Shih-na. Pretty badass. But what I want to know is, where was Detective Badd aiming? He was pointing the gun at Yew's back, and he was at close-range as well, so there's no way he could have missed her. How did the bullet manage to go through his leg, especially since she has longer legs than him (due to wearing high heels)?!
76	** Maybe Badd was startled by Lang's sudden movement, enough to throw off his aim?
77	** Also, looking at where everyone is standing during the scene in question, it's entirely possible that Lang bumped into Badd when he grabbed Sheena, which definitely would have thrown off his aim, and also might have caused Badd to fire by accident. After all, Badd was standing ''very'' close to Shih-na -- could Lang really have put Shih-na in that hold -- a hold, mind, that has her arm that's holding the gun sticking way out behind her, in Badd's general direction -- without getting in Badd's way? Unlikely.
78	** Shih-na was also holding Kay at gunpoint at the time. Isn’t it possible Badd had simply aimed for her leg to try and prevent Kay from being caught in the crossfire?
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80	* Why does Alba have an ''''OBJECTION!'''' , anyway? He’s not an attorney; it’s mentioned that he was in the military before becoming an ambassador.
81	** Because you don't need to be an attorney to object to something. The only thing that makes it strange and lawyerish is the wording. If the phrase was "I object!" (as in the Spanish translation of the other games) it would not be jarring.
82	** He does mention the process of court-martials during the last case, so it’s possible he’s had experience with those.
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84	* During case 3, how come no one else seemed to be there at the amusement park? There were clearly people visiting the park, as evident when you're at the entrance and talking to Meekins, but how come there were no other people in both the Wild Wild West section AND the Haunted House? Surely someone else other than Kay would have stumbled across a tied-up Edgeworth, or been in the Haunted House at the time of the kidnapping and murder?
85	** The Haunted House isn't easily explained (unless it was shut down for repairs or something); however, Edgeworth was not held prisoner in a place he could have easily been stumbled across. Remember that he was held in a room that is only supposed to be accessible by the park's staff, and after his rescue, he had to ''slide down a drainpipe''. Only someone who was trying to go where they weren't supposed to go (like Kay) or a staff member (like one of the Badgers) would eventually have found Edgeworth where he was tied up.
86	*** I got the impression that the park was evacuated by Lang's goons. We just didn't see that.
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88	* Case 3. When the crime scene is thought to be the stage, a big deal is made of the weird positioning of the victim's gunshot wound on his body: this makes Edgeworth's reconstruction of the events perfectly plausible. However, after the crime scene is revealed to be elsewhere, the wound issue is never touched upon again.
89	** I'm pretty sure it's because the killer fired at Deacon while Deacon was on top of him during their struggle, thus explaining the upward trajectory of the shot.
90	** The point was, the position of the entry wounds was ''impossible'' due their standing on different levels, unless Devorae was doing a handstand of something. Since there was a struggle between him and Lance in the haunted house, the entry wound ceases to be noteworthy.
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92	* Final case: Who was in the elevator?
93	** Shih-na, I believe, since it was too risky wandering around the embassy with Coachen's body.
94	** I think it's said late in the debate with Alba, when you're trying to find out how Shih-na moved the body from Babahl's open-air stage to Coachen's office.
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96	* so Quercus Alba's blood just happens to land ''exactly'' on the little circle on the samurai dogs wrapping, and completely fills it up, and Oldbag just happens to steal that very samurai dog that proves Alba did it. What are the odds of both of these things happening?
97	** The entire series works on ContrivedCoincidence. After all, it just so happens that Kristoph just happened to have hired Apollo, the long lost son of Lamiroir, who happened to be involved in one of Apollo's cases, and happens to be the long-lost half brother of the girl Phoenix adopted, who was the daughter of the client in the case in which Kristoph had Phoenix stripped of his badge.
98	** Not to mention, in the words of Phoenix Wright: "It may be almost impossible but almost impossible is not impossible." Yes it seems EXTREMELY unlikely that the blood would do this however one could argue to opposite: There is a change (a small change but still a change) that this could happen with some extreme luck. Saying that something that is "improbable" in a plot of a game is a plot hole is just not true considering how, there ARE coincidences just like this one that have happened many times in real life.
99	** In defense of the circumstances, the box that Ms. Oldbag took wasn't the only box that had any blood on it. It was just the only box with blood on it that Ms. Oldbag managed to get her hands on; the others were disposed of by the embassy staff to cover up the crime. The fact that she took the one box with the circle filled in isn't a contrivance at all, either -- she says the circle being filled in was the ''entire reason'' she took that box in particular, because she thought it meant something special
100	* Case 3: It's nice that the game [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] the expectations that certain players of Trials and Tribulations might have. (If that's being too generous, they at least avoid getting stale and predictable by obviously re-using the same character types with the same genders in the same plot.) However, it still makes Edgeworth seem forgetful and maybe even naive that he is so unwilling to believe that a flirty 19-year old girl who can make sad eyes who was involved in a kidnapping/extortion plot and apparently betrayed her boyfriend would be capable of killing a member of her own family.
101	** By the time Lang has officially suspected Lauren, Edgeworth has already found out there were three kidnappers, which not only raises the possibility of an additional suspect, but also raises the possibility of the kidnapping being staged by the "victim" like Case 3-4 was. It's thus entirely possible that by that point, he already knew Lance was the murderer.
102	** Try swapping the roles around. Lauren was a timid, sheltered person prone to bursting into tears who takes all the blame for a crime — not unlike Terry Fawles. Meanwhile, you’ve got Lance playing the part of the ignorance-feigning significant other with an ulterior motive who’s not too subtle about using his partner as a patsy — much like Dahlia Hawthorne. It wasn’t the ''genders'' of Terry and Dahlia that were questionable; it was that one’s behavior was genuine while the other’s was clearly staged and manipulative.
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104	* Why was the Trump Card considered illegal evidence? It was said that it was on Coachen's person at the time of KG-8.
105	** Because it was stolen from Edgeworth’s office by Detective Badd. Stealing something from a crime scene or from police custody effectively neuters any worth it had as evidence in court.
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107	* There is a point in the first AAI where it is suggests that Ambassador Alba traded away a real solid gold relic that was in his care so that he could get a fake hollow one. Edgeworth quite reasonably points out that this would make more sense for him to do in reverse and that, since it doesn't appear to make sense, there must be some kind of shady motive. The suspect asks, "can you prove that it doesn't make sense?" Everyone reacts as though this logic is extremely hard to beat.
108	** Which it kinda is. They're basically using "that's not normal" as "evidence". What's "normal" isn't something you can use as logic in a murder investigation. You can use the fact as basis for other facts; for example, use the fact it's not normal, for a lead way into something else, but you can't prove something isn't "normal". In court, if you use such an argument, it would instantly get thrown out, same thing mainly in interrogations. For example, if the person being interrogated said they were walking through a park alone at night and the detective tries to point out that it's unusual for them to do such a thing. They can use this to lead into some other point, or evidence that directly proves they didn't do it, but if the detective's entire argument had lead to just the logic of "it's stupid for someone to do that, therefore you wouldn't do it, therefore you didn't", the suspect's attorney has every right to, and likely will, object to the reasoning and point out that it's completely invalid, and they have no right to decide what is and isn't "normal" for their client to be doing.
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110	* The Primidux statue looks like it may have more volume than Kay's whole body. It has at least as much volume as both of Edgeworth's legs combined. If Edgeworth's weight is 160 lbs and his legs are 40% of that, his legs together weigh 64 pounds. The density of gold is about 19 times that of water, so that's about 1200 pounds for the statue. The statue almost certainly has a mass over 300 kilograms and weight over 700 pounds. It's probably over 1500 pounds. How could anyone move the thing, even just to the windowsill? It's not like Demasque II or Alba had a wheelbarrow. (Then again, Demasque II may have known he was after the fake.) Furthermore, how could anyone think that the real statue could be picked up and used as a murder weapon?
111	** It isn't solid gold.
112	** Maybe it's smaller than it looks.
113	** More likely, the game is just running off the player’s perception of gold. Most people tend not to realize that gold is has heavy as it is.
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115	* Edgeworth's behavior in I-4 seems inconsistent with his behavior in 3-4. Maybe he hasn't been working with Manfred at the prosecutor's office for very long yet (though he has known Manfred since childhood, apparently), but in I-4, Edgeworth repeatedly says that he doesn't approve of going outside the law to catch criminals. However, in case 3-4, he's basically an accomplice to perjury (a serious crime) when Dahlia testifies under a false name. True, he had several reasons, such as protecting the witness and getting her to agree to testify in the first place, but there's no way to deny that what he and Dahlia went outside the law in court in 3-4.
116	** Edgeworth and Manfred are referring to people who can't be brought to court, like Ambassador Alba, and are stating their belief that their job is to get all people who are ''brought to court as defendants'' guilty (by any means necessary).
117	-->'''Manfred''': (Byrne Faraday) once tried to explain to me a way of punishing "those who cannot be brought to court".
118	-->'''Edgeworth''': "Those who cannot be brought to court"... That IS nonsense, for no man is above the law.
119	-->'''Manfred''': Well... there are always a few exceptions. However, there is no reason to even deal with such individuals. A prosecutor is a guardian of the court, with no obligation to outside matters.
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121	* Why does Edgeworth remember I-4 so clearly during I-5, but have only limited recollection of 3-4 during 3-5?
122	** Perhaps he's treating it as a case that has yet to be closed, and is certain to remember as much as he can about it so that he can act when he's ready to continue it, similar to how Kay kept Yew's perfume bottle around with the fingerprints preserved.
123	** Plus, it was supposed to be his actual first case. Maybe it stood out to him more since he was ''supposed'' to get to prosecute, but didn't actually get to.
124	** If I remember correctly, I-4 isn't just a flashback, it's a retelling where Edgeworth and Kay go over the facts of the case. 3-4 kind of is too, because it's Phoenix reading over the notes, but that doesn't involve Edgeworth. In other words, Edgeworth had a big ol' reminiscent session between I-3 and I-5 while he has no immediate cause to remember 3-4 during 3-5, and certainly no time to sit down and think about it (plus I-4 involved him an Franziska almost getting shot, while 3-4 ended inconclusively with the defendant's death and so was something of a failure for the Perfect Prosecutor Von Karma wanted him to be, so maybe he just didn't want to remember much about it).
125	** I remember Edgeworth saying something during 1-4 about how people sometimes block out memories in self-defense. Considering 3-4 ended with the defendant committing suicide, I'd imagine that'd be pretty traumatic, perhaps traumatic enough to block out from one's memory entirely.
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127	* Was Calisto Yew wearing colored contacts in I-4 or I-5? Her eye color is not the same between those two cases. For that matter, her freckles are gone.
128	** What did you think all that makeup was for?
129	** There's also that her hair is shorter(except for in front), and white instead of black. There was a fair amount of effort altering her appearance.
130	** Given Calisto’s strong resemblance to Cece Yew, a person she wasn’t actually related to, it seems likely that her appearance had been heavily altered from the very beginning. Much like the phantom in Dual Destinies, there’s really no telling what she really looks like.
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132	* Why did Colias Palaeno trust Manny Coachen so much? You’d think Palaeno would be at least a ''little'' hesitant to trust him so much after he was found not guilty in Cece Yew's murder as a result of a lack of evidence. He calls Coachen a good man and trusts him with all the embassy's printing equipment and fake statue management even though killing Cece Yew would imply ties to the smuggling ring and there is clear reason to think that ''someone'' at the embassy was involved with the ring even if it wasn't Coachen.
133	** It's pretty in-character. "He was acquitted, so he's innocent, right?" He's an unsuspecting, pleasant but kind of ineffectual sort of guy, which made him exactly the kind of person Coachen would find it perfect to operate through. He's like the villainous version of the HypercompetentSidekick.
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135	* In case 4, how did the culprit get a gun? I'm not talking about the one that was in Faraday's evidence supply, I mean the other one that was used at the end. Don't these courthouses have security? In real life, you have to go through a metal detector to get into a courthouse.
136	** The true culprit was an attorney so they probably brought it in under the guise of trial evidence.
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138	* Why doesn't anyone ever pat suspects down for weapons? In case 5, as soon as someone said "pwwhwh", one of my first thoughts was to check the person for weapons and take them away if present.
139	** Shih-na presumably is authorized to carry a gun, and Lang, her superior, was unwilling to believe that she was TheMole until the final piece of evidence was presented.
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141	* In I-3, at the very beginning, when Kay and Edgeworth are trapped in the room, there's a bunch of lockers in front of the windows. Kay tries to jump up and grab ahold of them, but they're too high up. My problem with this is: Why doesn't Edgeworth just let her stand on his shoulders, or his entwined hands? It looks like that would have been enough to get to the top of the lockers, and she could help him up from there.
142	** Edgeworth might be a bit of a NeatFreak? Hey, he's got a nice suit, for crying out loud!
143	** How would Kay have helped him up from there? She doesn't have a way of getting him up to the lockers, such as a ladder or rope, and she can't open the door to the kidnappers' meeting room from the outside because of the sword.
144	** There are also the shelves holding the empty costume boxes, which look climbable. From the top of those, it would be easy enough to get onto the lockers and out.
145	** The highest shelf is too far inset. It wasn’t close enough to the lockers or high enough.
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147	* Quercus Alba claims that [=DeMasque=] II's murder was self-defense. However, it is later proven that his wound was inflicted by Manny Coachen. Wouldn't that mean that his claim of self-defense is proven to be false?
148	** Yes, it did. That's why Edgeworth has that final taunt:
149	-->'''Edgeworth''': Mr. Alba, I'm afraid there is one more question I forgot to ask....
150	-->'''Alba''': ...........
151	-->'''Edgeworth''': This country's, or Allebahst's: Which country's court would you like to face first? Either way, it's game over for you.
152	* The conflict at the end of I-3 raises another question about the legal system of this series. Did they abolish the entire concept of search warrants? If the police, prosecutors and Interpol have reason to believe that a crime took place in a location, they would normally have the legal right to investigate the premises, regardless of the wishes of the property owner. And they have such reason, even given the doubts about Edgeworth's theory. At no point does anyone deny that the kidnappers' planned exchange or Edgeworth's assault/abduction took place in the haunted house. (As a side note, Ernest needs to be a bit more subtle with his "screw the rules, I have money" approach. There are few ways more transparent than to outright say "I will not allow you to investigate my son. Arrest her now.")
153	** Of course they could have got a warrant, but in the minutes or hours it would have taken, Amano could have cleaned up every bit of evidence in the Haunted House and/or planted new evidence. At any rate, no one would be able to be certain the Haunted House looked exactly the same then as it did at the time.
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155	* The murder weapon in I-5 is a decorative knife with an Allebahst flower motif on its pommel. One of the gold petals is missing and the petal itself is found on the Babahl side of the embassy, calling attention to the fact that the body was moved (and giving a clue as to how). It's implied that the petal came off during the transportation of the body, but the knife is visible in a pre-murder photograph where it is tucked into a bouquet -- the petal is already missing!
156	** It’s actually implied that the petal fell off in the course of Coachen’s murder, which could have happened before that picture was taken.
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158	* During a logic segment near the end of case 4, where Edgeworth deduces that the missing KG-8 tape is in the video player hooked up to the TV, he deduces that the tape must be in the TV because the only things that could pass through the bars are incorporeal things. Assuming the tape in question is about the same dimensions of a typical VHS tape, what's stopping the criminal from just chucking it out the window and recovering it later? Edgeworth should have at least addressed this possibility.
159	** It’s explained elsewhere during the case that the courtyard had been checked for evidence in the aftermath of the crime. If the tape had been tossed out between the bars, the authorities would’ve found it already.
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161	* Case 1. Gumshoe gets accused of the murder. But then the end of Case 2 gives him a pretty solid alibi: Edgeworth directly asks him to drive him to the office, and up until that point, he was with Edgeworth and Franziska investigating the plane! Why does Edgeworth never mention in the defense that it wasn't physically possible for them to commit the crime??
162	** On a purely meta/game design standpoint, the player doesn't know this because the events that would give the accused an alibi have not happened yet before the player. As for an in-universe explanation... I got nothing. Maybe someone would suspect Edgeworth of making up a convenient alibi for that person to protect them?
163	** It wasn't the same day. Case 2 begins in the early morning and is resolved that afternoon, which is when Edgeworth asks for a ride. Case 3 begins the following morning, and Case 1 follows in the late evening of the same day.
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165	* I-5. It is established that Coachen's body was moved via the connected pool pipe, where Yew had to jump into the water at one point to receive the cart and swim back out as the water was rising. The Iron Infant was discovered soaked, the petal from the murder weapon too. And yet, the body itself was never mentioned to be wet, not even damp. Coachen's clothes were evidently left untouched to expose the wound and the blood and all, so it's unlikely he was re-dressed. How come apparently everything else that took a dive into the pool was soaked except the most important thing?
166	** Presumably because the body was in the pushcart, which was buoyant enough to float in the water and keep it dry.
167	** What’s more, water was being pumped onto the third floor, where the body was, in order to put out the fire. Any water that might have gotten into the body would be brushed off as a consequence of that, and therefore wasn’t worth commenting on.
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169	* Given the severity of the Yatagarasu situation, it is perfectly understandable that the police would appoint a specific detective to the investigation, and possibly even a specific prosecutor. But why would anyone think of officially appointing a defense attorney to Yatagarasu incidents? Doesn't that interfere with each defendant's right to an attorney of their choice?
170	** No one ever says that the police appoint a defense attorney to all of the Yatagarasu cases. Calisto Yew extended her services as a defense attorney to companies that were targeted by the Yatagarasu. None of the cases were forced on her; she sought them out herself.
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172	* When you get to explore the courtroom in case 4, you see a table with two chairs just in front of the judge’s bench. Who is that meant to be reserved for, especially with the two chairs? Is it for the defendant? Witnesses? The bailiff? It’s the only thing in the room that the game doesn’t let you examine.
173	** Maybe that's where the stenographer sits? No idea why there's two chairs, though.

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