Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney/Episode 4: Turnabout Goodbyes/Day 2 - Trial

You learn from Miles Edgeworth of the name of the Prosecutor: Manfred von Karma. He is considered a god of prosecutors. Throughout the 40 years of his career, von Karma is never lost a single case, or so he claims. von Karma would do just anything to make the "guilty" verdict, and Miles means anything! He even taught Edgeworth what it means to "prosecute"! Phoenix calls for Mia's help, but with lack of training, Maya is too weak to reach her. Is it over already? Guess you'll have to see.

Day two: Court Mode
After a few scares from von Karma whose opening statements are decisive evidence and a decisive witness, Gumshoe takes the stand an describes the events of the day of the murder.


 * The murder happened Christmas Eve, around midnight.
 * There's on boat in the middle of Gourdy Lake.
 * There were two men on the boat.
 * A woman was camping on the edge of the lake.
 * She heard two pistol shots on 12:10am.
 * The boat started to move.
 * It went towards the boat rental shop.

The Overhead Map will be added to your Court Record. von Karma demands Gumshoe to testify his court about his arrest. The judge says it wasn't von Karma's job, however Karma insults the Judge by telling his job was to slam the gavel down and say the word "guilty". The Judge agrees. This doesn't look good.

Cross-examination
von Karma demands you to begin cross-examining.

Press him on his second to last statement. Gumshoe will show the bullet that was in the body. The Pistol Bullet will be added to the Court Record.

Now Press him on his last statement. Gumshoe says they found the pistol on the boat. The Judge orders Gumshoe to add a new statement.


 * The weapon we found on the boat was decisive evidence.

Press him on that statement. von Karma will laugh at you, just like Edgeworth did once. It turns out, there were Edgeworth's fingerprint's of his right hand on the pistol. von Karma sees that as critical evidence, and demands that the Pistol will be added to the Court Record. von Karma asks that if the bullet came from the pistol. Thanks to the ballistic markings (the fingerprints of the gun) it is. von Karma concludes that the bullet that killed the victim was fired from the gun with the fingerprints of the defendant. The Judge would declare the verdict, but he needs to listen more of the witness' testimony. von Karma then forces the Judge to call a recess.

Phoenix tells Edgeworth about the fingerprints. Egdeworth that was on the boat but he didn't shoot him. He heard a shot very close by. The other man probably shot himself. Suicide? Edgeworth claims he wasn't sure, and that its the only explanation to come up with. Maya still has no progress with Mia. She wonder if she is not any help anymore. Say No, I need you here, you'll see later why. After arguing with her, Edgeworth will interrupt, saying its bad for his heart. Recess is over, so let's continue in court.

von Karma calls Lotta Hart to the stand, and demands her to talk without adding anything trivial or subjective, Much to Lotta's disturbance.

Lotta's Testimony: "Witness's Acount"
von Karma hears enough, as Lotta told the court, she had a picture of the moment of the murder, and there are no other boats in that lake, so no other man would shoot the victim, but Edgeworth, having little hope of this mission, the Judge decides to call the verdict. Object to this, as you still need a cross-examination. von Karma decides to let you do so, as he thinks you'll fail to find a contradictory of the testimony, if you don't, he'll sentence you to contempt of court. Maya asks you if there is a contradictory, say I think there was.

Cross-examination
Press her on her second statement. She was camping there, because she was doing a project for her university. Choose Press Harder, von Karma will object to this as research has nothing to do with the murder and forces the Judge to sustain the objection. Press her on her third and forth statements, Press Harder on her forth statement, and she'll reveal to you that she saw the two men with her own eyes. von Karma objects to this, is he hiding something? Press Lotta on her fifth and last statement. She reveals that she witnessed the other shot. Press Harder on her last statement. Lotta says that she was scanning the whole lake. The whole lake, was she looking for something else? von Karma, of course, objects to this and finds all of your questions hopeless, thus, he'll say that Phoenix will be out of the courtroom if he has another outburst. The Judge calls Edgeworth to the stand, before he does however another outburst.

Seeing that Lotta's Testimony "stinks", and seeing Phoenix has no chances of doing more cross-examining, Maya Fey harshly demands Lotta to tell the court if she saw Edgeworth shot the man clearly. Lotta says she has, however, von Karma sees this as another outburst and the Judge orders the officers to take Phoenix away. Maya however says that she made the outburst, not Nick. von Karma doesn't care as he says the verdict is now clear. Say Wrong as Lotta has made another testimony. The Judge fortunately for you, agrees and allows Lotta to change her last statement. Maya was taken away from court for the outburst, so it looks like you're on your own here. von Karma still hasn't have hopes up though.


 * I saw it as clear as day. The man on the boat was Mr. Edgeworth!

Present the Lake Photo to the court. That wasn't in her testimony. It seems that Lotta's camera took a very high quality photo at the lake, yet it didn't caught their faces. If so, than how did she know it was Edgeworth on that boat? Looks like you're finally making progress, as Lotta will make a new testimony, much to von Karma's annoyance.

Cross-Examination
She brought binoculars? Press her on her third statement. Didn't she say she was looking for shooting stars yesterday? Wouldn't she need a telescope for that? Was the camera really used to catch a meteor shower? von Karma objects, saying that the camera is irrelevant to the case, and there will be consequences if you dont find anything useful. The Judge asks if you would like to continue. Say Press further as the camera may be important to most of, if not the entire, case. Lotta will make a new statement.


 * The camera was set up just to take pictures of the meteor shower.

Press her on that statement. Wasn't the lake too foggy for the photo to take the meteor shower? von Karma says your confusing the witness, and lets her continue. Present the statement Lotta's Camera. If she was taking pictures of the stars, then why did she point the camera to the lake? She would've pointed the camera upwards. The Judge wants evidence. Choose Show evidence. Present the court Gourdy's Article. It seems she was there to take pictures of Gourdy. She wants proof that Gourdy is what she's really there for. Say I have proof, then Present Lotta's Camera again. Lotta set the camera to respond to loud noise. The pistol made a loud bang, which triggered the camera. And according to the article, Gourdy made a loud noise when it emerged. Lotta finally admits that she was there to see Gourdy. However, it doesn't really change what she saw. The Judge asks Lotta to change her testimony of why she saw Gourdy. Lotta and von Karma thinks it still won't change anything, so make sure they're wrong.

Lotta's Testimony: "Lotta's New Testimony"
von Karma objects to this and sees that Lotta's testimony is unchanged and doesn't want to go through another "pointless" cross-examination. Object to that, because von Karma is obviously hiding something. Your cross-examination will begin, but The Judge will say this is your last chance.

Cross-examination
On her third to last statement, Present the Gourdy Article. Wasn't Lotta scanning the lake for Gourdy, rather than keeping her eye on the boat? She probably wouldn't need binoculars to see a close boat. She would use them for Gourdy. She admits that she didn't give the boat a second thought. She does, however, reminds you that you have the photo, the proof. However, you still can't tell who's shooting who. But before Lotta can explain what she did to fix it, von Karms objects and tells Lotta she said enough, and to "shut (her) pie-hole", thus ending the cross-examination.

What was Lotta about to say? Phoenix than remembers that yesterday, Gumshoe said she was going to enlarge it. Is this what von Karma is hiding? You'll have to Make her show the enlargement, but now it's all or nothing. Lotta agrees. von Karma objects, but, lucky for you, is, for once, denied. She shows the enlargement, however you still can't tell who's shooting who. Regardless the Lake Photo will be added to the Court Record. It seems the enlargement has done little to help. It seems the Judge has his verdict. But there is still something not right in the photo. You have a choice to to stop the verdict or not. Choose Object to the enlargement. The Judge will ask you to find the strange part of the photo. You will examine the enlargement. Move the curser to the hand holding the pistol. Then Present it to the court. The Judge ask if you have proof of what's wrong. Present the Pistol to the court. In the photo, the murderer is shooting the pistol from his left hand, while the pistol has prints from his right, concluding that the man shooting is not Edgeworth.

The Judge praises you with your proof, but there leaves one problem: If Edgeworth didn't shoot him, then who? Only two people were on the boat! von Karma wants you to say who? Say the victim himself. von Karma objects, an Autopsy Report shows that the pistol was fired a meter away, about three feet. The victim's hand isn't that long, so suicide is out of the question. The Autopsy Report will be added to your Court Record. The Judge concludes that Edgeworth isn't the shooter, but neither is the victim. He will adjourn the court for today, without a verdict thankfully.

After the trial
Edgeworth still claims that he didn't shoot the victim, and that he wants Phoenix to tell Maya to watch her mouth. Lotta's information seems to have very useful information, so Phoenix writes out Lotta's Deposition, which will be added to the Court Record. Well, the trail is over for today. Time to investigate, but first, let's talk to Maya.