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This is a very confusing case indeed. The same person was killed in two places at the same time. In the Defendant's Lobby, Lana will tell you that despite a long questioning, the police are entirely clueless, and even Lana is in the dark. You tell her she needs to accuse Jake Marshall, since you found his bloody fingerprints in the Evidence Room, but Lana is non-committal.

# I fought for my life! Then I… I did it!

# After that I passed out… until another officer smacked me awake!}}

Press all of Meekins' statements. Meekins was assigned to the Blue Badger (the dancing contraption in front of the Police Department) to make sure it wasn't broken during the evidence transferrals. After the award ceremony (where Edgeworth got his Prosecutor Trophy) there were a lot of people running around, so Meekins put it in the Evidence Room. Meekins needed an ID Card to enter the Evidence Room, and he reveals his ID number, #4989596.

Press Meekins' fifth statement. Edgeworth asks if there is a problem with the video tape. Say "There's a problem". You then examine the tape.

The judge wants you to present the thin insulator. Present the Rubber Glove. It says "SL-9 Incident" on it, meaning that it belonged inside a locker. With it being outside, that means it must have fallen out of one of them. With this Glove, anyone could have opened the locker. Edgeworth isn't willing to give in, and has Meekins testify more about the tape.

Edgeworth even has the ID Card Record to prove that Goodman's ID was used. The judge wonder why, since there should have been hundreds of transferrals scheduled, there were so few people on the ID Card Record. Edgeworth tells him that this specific Evidence Room (Sector Three) only stores evidence for certain special cases — only extremely violent ones involving the police staff. There were only a few cases scheduled for transferrals, and the other ones were mostly cleared up by noon. The judge is satisfied, so you begin the cross-examination.

On Meekins' fourth statement, present Goodman's Lost Item Report. Goodman had lost something important to him that day — likely his ID Card. Phoenix presents the case that the man that Meekins encountered was not Goodman, but rather the man that stole Goodman's ID Card. Edgeworth then makes a conclusion: if the man on the Security Video is a fake, then the murder in the Evidence Room is also a fake! If the murder didn't occur at the Police Department, then that means it must have happened at the Underground Parking Lot. This make Lana Skye the prime suspect once again.

Lana tells Phoenix that Marshall knows something. Lana seems to know something about the case herself, but doesn't want to talk about it, even to her sister. Why? Gumshoe then comes in to bring files from the SL-9 Incident, at Lana's request. It is also revealed that Lana was a witness on that case. The SL-9 Incident Files will be added to the Court Record. In there, you see a list of people involved in the case known as the "Joe Darke Killings", and one of them is Ema, who runs off crying after seeing it. Gumshoe leaves too, and Lana wishes you the best of luck.

Press on that statement. The camera was moving back and forth and it doesn't show the floor, so if someone was familiar with the movement, he could have found a way to leave the room without getting caught. The judge wants to know if you have any proof. Choose "Show evidence", and you'll examine the tape.

*'''Right view 3''': Pause just as Goodman (if he is Goodman) lunges at Meekins. There's blood on his shoulder, lots of it!

Present this to the court. There was lots of blood on it, so it would be too obvious that he fought Meekins. He had to hide it, and that hiding spot must have been his own locker.

Marshall says, "Are you happy now Edgeworth?" for two years ago. If he had been as persistent in the SL-9 case, none of this would have happened. Marshall then gives his confession in the next testimony.

# I wasn't expecting Officer Meekins. I knocked him out…

No murder? Then why was there large amounts of blood on the floor? Marshall says Meekins was the donor, since he cut his hand — but wouldn't that create not nearly enough blood?

*'''First statement:''' He couldn't just let the SL-9 Incident die, he wanted to go through the evidence from the case before it was lost forever in the transferral. Only the lead detective has access to a dead case's files, so he needed Goodman's ID and his disguise to get them.

*'''Second statement:''' If he didn't make it look like Goodman was taking out the transferral, he would have been caught stealing. He admits to stealing Goodman's ID that morning, then leaving it at the Underground Parking Lot to be found later. It was pure luck that the Rubber Glove jammed the fingerprint sensor, or Marshall couldn't have gotten the locker open. But that means that Goodman himself had opened it previously.

:*"I can't just forget the SL-9 Incident… You know why?"

Press on that statement. Though the serial killings of "Joe Darke" were solved two years ago, Marshall still feels that something wasn't right. There may a reason he's not talking about to explain his zeal towards the case. Present the SL-9 Incident Files on his latest statement. On the victim list, there is the name of another Marshall, "Neil Marshall". Jake Marshall says Neil was his brother and a prosecutor, just like Edgeworth. He was the one that handled the case, and after he was killed, Edgeworth took over.

Neil and Damon Gant led the investigation of the SL-9 case, and the other detectives all worked under them. They were desperate to prosecute the killer. Eventually Neil fought Darke, but was killed. That was the only evidence Darke had ever left behind, and they used it to get the Guilty verdict. Marshall knew no one could beat his brother in a fight, so he knows there's more to the story than what is found in the public records. On the last before the SL-9 evidence was transferred, Marshall stole an ID, intended to steal evidence, and ended up assaulting a police officer.

It's Ema! Ema wants the judge to hear you out. After finding out the Joe Darke Killings that she'd been involved was the same case as SL-9, Ema went to the Evidence Room to recheck the handprint on Gumshoe's locker, but she found nothing again. She leaves you to do the talking, but you have nothing. The judge asks you if there is something not right with the handprint. Say "I object!". Something might not have been drawn in the Evidence Room Floorplans. If it wasn't, then the handprint may change the case. If asked what could have been drawn on there, present the Blue Badger Panel. The Blue Badger was dancing at the time the fight took place, and it would've been impossible to place a handprint on Gumshoe's locker, because the Blue Badger was right in front of it.

Ema comes back with a solution. If the print wasn't there during the fight, it must have been put there ''before'' the fight happened. Thus, blood was spilled at the Evidence Room twice! So, something might have happened in there before the commotion was caught on tape. However, you need proof, so when you get the chance, Present the ID Card Record. If the murder took place before the fight, it would be either 4:20 PM or 4:40 PM. But it would've been impossible for Edgeworth to clean up the act before Meekins brought the Blue Badger up, so the only remaining number is "7777777". If Goodman lost his ID card that day, then he must have walked in with the real murderer. The judge asks Edgeworth to find out who the owner of this number is. However, Edgeworth can't, as he doesn't have the authority to look up someone as higher than a captain, unless he or she is charged with a crime.

Because of that, Marshall mocks Edgeworth with his cover-ups and forgeries and says, "That's how the Prosecutor's Office operates!". Edgeworth wants Marshall to keep his slander to himself. Marshall then asks a question of Lana, "In that trial two years ago… did you really use legitimate evidence‽". Lana says when she became a prosecutor, she thought she could use the law to suppress crime, but it turned out that the law only made it harder to put criminals away.

Lana then answers Marshall's question to Edgeworth: "Drastic crimes require drastic measures… That's just the way it is. We did what we had to… in order to get the verdict he deserved. Even if it involved 'forging' evidence.".

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