[no game, open RP] The "pester Edgeworth in his office" post

[truthsnomiracle]

[Chances are, when you enter room 1202 of the Prosecutor's Office, you'll find High Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth hard at work. He learned the hard way not to be too quick to throw people out when they interrupt him, so as annoyed as he probably will be once he notices your presence, you'll more likely than not get a sufficient chance to justify yourself. Usually.]

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1. Phoenix Wright (gotyoucornered) makes a Valentine's Day delivery (gen)
   
2. "Sibel Miryzo" (visionofchaos) discusses an improbable bank robbery (gen)
   
3. Chie Satonaka (stompyerface) visits a friend who's never met her (gen)
   
4. Franziska von Karma (whipthebell) henpecks an overworked Edgeworth (gen)
   
5. Pamela Ibiss (cuteghost300 perkily adds further evidence towards an uncomfortable conclusion (gen)
   
6. Byrne Faraday (promisecutor revisits his former office (gen)
   

Comments

Testimony 5/5

[visionofchaos.livejournal.com]

The defendant was apprehended by bank security in the safe deposit box room.

[truthsnomiracle]

HOLD IT!

A simple ambush by one of the guards in particular, as I recall? Although I do find it peculiar that only she took that opportunity...

[visionofchaos.livejournal.com]

Indeed, one does wonder about the precise details of that. One might expect, with the surveillance camera out, there would be guards posted inside that room in the first place. That is, unless the bank was expecting something to happen and wanted to avoid scaring off the perpetrator. Or was somehow lax enough in their security to not have realized the room was not monitored...

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[truthsnomiracle]

The former possibility seems quite irresponsible indeed; there are over a thousand safe-deposit boxes in that room. Even if security were to assume that the box's absent key were in her possession, would it not still be a terrible risk to trust a robber to either steal any bait placed in such a trap and only said bait, or to prove incompetent enough to necessarily be caught with a reduced security detail if not?

[truthsnomiracle]

The latter possibility, on the other hand, is a far more plausible scenario than I would prefer.

[visionofchaos.livejournal.com]

Perhaps so, but it raises another question, I'd think. Namely, why was the defendant apprehended so quickly and decisively? As you noted, there are over a thousand safe-deposit boxes in that room; the defendant may certainly have seemed suspicious to some, but the manner of her capture seems more to suggest they were not merely suspicious but immediately certain of guilt.

I can certainly imagine a number of explanations for why that might be the case, but it does seem starkly at odds with security being lax enough to miss a malfunctioning surveillance camera.

[truthsnomiracle]

Then the most likely explanation is that the guard posted had reason to look into the room, whether due to awareness of the camera's malfunction or because some other stimulus prompted her to look.

[visionofchaos.livejournal.com]

I would tend to agree, and further would stipulate that something about the must have prompted decisive action from the guard. Consider that the bank essentially claims to know nothing about the defendant prior to this incident; the guard should not have been able to recognize her.

[truthsnomiracle]

My point precisely. Until such time as she can be questioned further, however, I suggest that we simply take note of this detail until more light can be shed upon it.