Ace Attorney: Criminal's Masquerade

The Classified Turnabout, Part 8 (Nevada)

WITNESS TESTIMONY: IMGON NADIE - U COMMITTED THE CRIME

-I was simply walking around the headquarters of Interpol. Everything was relatively normal. 

-I walked in on the crime scene, however, and that was not a pretty sight. In fact, it's still one of the most gruesome murder scenes I've ever seen in my time as part of Interpol. 

-I saw the defendant unconscious at the crime scene near the dead body. She was covered in blood and looked to be out like a light next to the murder weapon as well. 

-That sounds pretty dang incriminating if you ask me. Next to the body, near the murder weapon, and covered in blood. That screams that she did it. 

-There didn't seem to be anything about the crime scene that would show that anybody else committed the crime. Absolutely nothing. That means that she must have done him in. 

"The defense is ready to begin its cross-examination," declared Vinnie from across the courtroom. He appeared to be looking rather smug. I was fine with that. The sooner that he got this over with, the sooner that I'd be able to go home and hang out with my family. 

"Go right ahead," the judge declared with a nod. 

CROSS-EXAMINATION: IMGON NADIE - U COMMITTED THE CRIME

-I was simply walking around the headquarters of Interpol. Everything was relatively normal.

-I walked in on the crime scene, however, and that was not a pretty sight. In fact, it's still one of the most gruesome murder scenes I've ever seen in my time as part of Interpol.

-I saw the defendant unconscious at the crime scene near the dead body. She was covered in blood and looked to be out like a light next to the murder weapon as well.

-That sounds pretty dang incriminating if you ask me. Next to the body, near the murder weapon, and covered in blood. That screams that she did it.

-There didn't seem to be anything about the crime scene that would show that anybody else committed the crime. Absolutely nothing. That means that she must have done him in.

"OBJECTION!"

Vinnie shook his head and let out a sigh. "I'm afraid that your testimony is about as paper thin as a house of cards, witness," he declared. "I have a pair of pieces of evidence that I believe finger somebody else to be the culprit or show that you're lying."

"Go on. What's this all about?" I asked of him, tapping my foot behind the courtroom bench. 

"You see, I was talking to both the defendant and witness from yesterday. They both agreed that a dark brown patch was seen at the crime scene, specifically a clump of hair. This witness mentioned nothing of it, which shows that his testimony does have a hole or two. On top of that, this hair would finger somebody else to be the culprit if one truly thought about it hard enough. Why would the witness leave something so important out of his testimony?" Vinnie asked. 

"Do you think that he did it or something?" I questioned. 

"I'll get to that in a moment. First, I want to say that while I was talking to the witness here yesterday, I saw something rather curious that he had left behind. In fact, it was a clump of dark brown hair. It was about the same color as his hair is, come to think of it," Vinnie declared. "My partner and I didn't find it until after he was long gone." 

"In fact, I have that piece of evidence right here," declared Shieldy 2. She held up a plastic bag that contained a small clump of dark brown hair. "We didn't notice this at first, but there's quite a bit of blood located on its surface."

"Blood?!" the judge sputtered. "That means that it must have been at the crime scene!"

"While that would be the initial assumption, I'm afraid that we can't say anything about it being at the crime scene as of now," Shieldy 2 said. "You see, while I Ido know that it's a clump of dark brown hair, I wasn't able to get it analyzed by forensics. By the time that we had found it, then it was already rather late in the day and the department had closed down. We couldn't send it in."

"We really need to extend the hours on that place," I muttered. I was a bit irritated with this new development, as it meant that I'd have to wait for forensics to analyze the hair during a recess, which would only hold off me going home even further. I did not like that concept, let me tell you. 

"Yes. I agree," nodded Vinnie. "Perhaps... Only if it's okay, that is, the court could go into recess while the forensics team analyzes this piece of hair. Does that sound alright, Your Honor?"

His Baldness closed his eyes and contemplated this for a moment. After a few seconds of us sitting and watching him in silence, he responded with a nod. "Alright," he announced. "If there are no objections to this matter, there will be a thirty minute recess while forensics analyzes the piece of hair found by the defense."

"How do we know that it isn't forged evidence?!" roared O from behind the witness stand. I had been too focused on the other happenings of the trial to notice that he was beginning to fume up something fierce. 

"If it was forged, we wouldn't openly offer it up for examination," Vinnie said. "Anyways, if we're going to figure out whose hair that it was at the crime scene, samples of DNA from everybody involved with the trial are going to be needed."

"As if I'm going to do something like that," scoffed O. 

I pulled out my scissors and pointed them at him. "You had better say that you'll give a sample," I said. I glared at him for a few seconds before turning to the judge. "Can we go now?"

The old man gulped to himself before picking up his gavel. "Alright... Court is now adjourned for a thirty minute recess!" he declared before smacking the tiny hammer down on its stand thing. 

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-Digital