We may be knee-deep in legal trouble with Edgeworth, but when push comes to shove we have two options. Either we back down, or we double down.
And mama didn’t raise no quitter!
If you think that Edgeworth has been acting unethically throughout this whole trial, you’re correct. That’s intentional because the Ace Attorney trilogy was written, in part, as a scathing critique of the Japanese legal system. More learned minds than myself can regale you with the particulars, but there are reasons that an often-cited statistic reads that 99% of all cases brought to trial in a Japanese court are ruled in favor of the prosecution.
One of those reasons is that prosecutors seldom ever go to trial unless they are 100% certain of the outcome, but the other reason is that the legal system, in general, is heavily weighted in their favor, and a lot of Japanese crime dramas, and media depicting their legal system, often go out of their way to point that out. There’s a reason that this game, Persona 5, and even the Judgement series all draw similar inferences and conclusions despite being written by entirely separate teams. Of course, I’m not a legal expert in any system of law, so I’ll reframe from outlined details that I’m not familiar with.
Whatever the case may be, we’ll continue our investigation next week. See you then!
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