Drew Misham

"Drew Misham"

- Perhaps you've heard that you can make any color as long as you have the three primary colors? Well, it's a lie.

Drew Misham was a picture book illustrator who sold forged paintings on the black market. This life eventually led to his death at the hands of one of his clients, who left poisoned items at his home to prevent them from talking about him. The trial of his daughter was the first to employ the Jurist System.

Painting forgeries
Drew Misham was a failing artist; because of this, his wife walked out on him and left him to raise their daughter, Vera Misham. Although he was able to make a modest income from his illustration work, it was not enough to give Vera the life he felt she deserved. One day, he discovered that Vera was able to copy his paintings perfectly. He then gave her other paintings to copy, and she could copy those perfectly as well. He sold these forged paintings under his name on the black market; he did not want to involve Vera in his dealings.

Misham was a recluse, rarely ever going outside and communicating only through letters, as he couldn't stand modern technology.

Evidence forgery

 * Main article: Turnabout Succession

One day, someone asked Vera to forge a piece of evidence. Later, Prosecutor Klavier Gavin approached Drew, instructing him to take the stand in a trial. During the trial, Drew testified that the journal page that Phoenix Wright had presented was a fake and that he had made it, not realizing that it would be used as evidence. Astonished at the calm Wright exhibited as the trial abruptly ended, Drew asked for Wright's name for him to remember. Wright would later be disbarred for presenting illegal evidence.

The Mishams later received a letter from the client who had requested the forgery, which contained $100,000 and a commemorative Troupe Gramarye stamp, which the client told him to use in a confirmation reply to him. The client also told the Mishams not to speak of what happened again. Drew also found that the client had given Vera a "magic charm" that would protect her from danger; Drew never found out what the charm was. Drew sent the expected reply, but he did not use the designated stamp because Vera had grown attached to it; he put the stamp in a tiny frame.

Wright's visit
Wright later visited Drew's home as a part of his investigation of the case that had gotten him fired. Drew told Wright about the life that he had with his daughter, but he was hesitant to talk about the forgery. Nevertheless, Wright was able to figure out that Vera was the true forger.

Death
One day, seven years later, Drew grew fearful of Vera's secret charm and wrote a letter to Kristoph, telling him to remove the "spell" that Kristoph had placed on her. Unable to find a stamp, he used the Troupe Gramarye stamp on the letter, which resulted in his death during an interview with a reporter; he left traces of atroquinine poison on his coffee mug. This lead investigators to believe that Vera had poisoned the coffee, and thus Vera was held on trial for her father's murder. Phoenix Wright chose this trial as a "simple" test trial for the Jurist System, but the case would soon turn out to be much more complicated than it initially seemed.

To get a full sense of all of the circumstances behind the murder, Wright compiled memories from his investigations into the Gramarye case and the forgery into a game program for the jury to use, and he gave Vera's defense attorney, Apollo Justice, everything he knew about the case as well. Through this, it was found that the client for the forgery, Kristoph Gavin, had poisoned the stamp and Vera's "charm", a bottle of nail polish, with atroquinine to prevent the Mishams from talking about the murder. Kristoph Gavin was called to the stand, but he denied all this. Although Justice could not produce decisive evidence to prove that Kristoph was the real killer, the fact that a jury would render the verdict meant that decisive evidence was not necessary. This left Kristoph furious that his plan would be foiled by common citizens.

Name

 * His first name "Drew" is the past tense of "to draw".


 * "Misham" comes from "sham".


 * "Ese" (絵瀬) means "imitation" in Japanese.


 * His surname in the Japanese version is "Doburoku" (土武六), which is a type of home-brewed (and therefore illegal) sake.


 * "Mi Sham" in Hebrew means "Who's there?".


 * His name in the French localization ("Monin") may be a reference to the famous painter "Monet".

Development

 * His hair may be drawn to resemble a paint brush.


 * The paint blotches on Drew's clothing almost resemble the shape of the regions in Japan.

Note
Drew may have found out somehow that the client was being held in Solitary Cell 13, or letters sent to the client may have been redirected to said cell.