Patricia Roland

Marī Miwa was the animal-loving director of the prison that Manosuke Naitō was murdered within. She referred to the prison as her "home". Her prison was unusual in that she strongly believed in animal therapy, and thus allowed not only for each prisoner to own an animal, but also to allow said animals to freely roam the prison as they wished.

The assassination plot

 * Main article: SS-5 Incident

Before becoming a prison director, Miwa was the director of the Happy Family Home orphanage. In 2007, she conspired with the corrupt prosecutor Bansai Ichiyanagi and the body double of Zheng Fa president Teikun Ō to assassinate the real president and replace him with the body double. In order to avert suspicion, they planned the killing in such a way so as to make it seem that the president had merely been kidnapped then safely returned, when in reality it would be the body double who would be "returned", while the real Ō would be dead.

The conspirators hired the infamous blind assassin Ryōken Hōinbō to carry out the killing itself, with Miwa and Ichiyanagi then disposing of the corpse. The three planned to betray and kill Hōinbō, but their scheme was overheard by a boy at the orphanage called Sōta Sarushiro who had been saved from death by Hōinbō a number of years previously; Hōinbō was thus able to get away with his life, while Sarushiro drew a picture of Ō's assassination. A reporter who stumbled onto the crime scene was swiftly murdered by Ichiyanagi, and his corpse placed where Ō's body had been lying in the snow in order to cover up their tracks. They then erased all the photographs on the reporter's camera in order to replace them with a photo of a scene they staged of a trenchcoat-wearing figure with their back to the photographer (Miwa in disguise) pointing a gun at "Teikun Ō" (who was actually his body double). This was done in order to make it seem as if the incident had happened outside the orphanage and obfuscate what had really happened.

For the subsequent investigation into the "kidnapping", Miwa was the only suspect the police could find due to it happening outside her orphanage. However, since Ichiyanagi was the one set to prosecute the case, the evidence was soon manipulated. When this was discovered, Ichiyanagi put the blame on the investigation team led by Dai-Long Lang. With no evidence supporting her guilt, Miwa was declared not guilty and the case went cold.

Miwa found out about Sarushiro's picture of was now referred to as the "SS-5 Incident" by the police, and threatened Sarushiro multiple times in order to take it from him. She failed, with her her efforts only resulting in driving him from the orphanage with a deep hatred towards her and her co-conspirators.

Prison murder

 * Main article: The Imprisoned Turnabout

At some point before March 2019, Miwa became the director of both the local prison and adjoining detention center, thanks to her connections. She strongly believed in animal therapy, and so each prisoner was allowed to own their own animal that was able to move freely about the prison.

However, there was one prisoner of whom Miwa was terrified; Ryōken Hōinbō. Although he had been caught and imprisoned, Hōinbō was still a very dangerous man who had not forgotten the betrayal of Miwa and her co-conspirators. He threatened her and her family by claiming that he still had many "dogs" (i.e., subordinates) roaming free that would kill her. Miwa thus not only became extremely paranoid of her fate, but also bowed to his whims (mostly revolving around smuggling things in for him). Although she tried to help the police catch his subordinates and interrogated Hōinbō personally, her efforts proved fruitless.

Things went from bad to worse when Miwa found out that a newly admitted detainee called Manosuke Naitō had smuggled a weapon inside a chess set into the detention center; a chisel with a one of Hoinbo's trademark bells attached. She also found out that this man had been engaging in correspondence chess with Hoinbo. Now convinced that this man was one of Hoinbo's promised "dogs", Miwa resolved to kill him before he could do the same to her.

Miwa began by recruiting Frank Sahwit, one of the inmates, to assist her, with the promise of him receiving preferential treatment and a better chance for parole. Sahwit was to turn off the prison's power and erase all surveillance footage; something Miwa could not do herself without travelling through the main courtyard of the prison. In order for him to be able to carry out his mission more easily, she gave Sahwit a malfunctioning version of the bracelets attached to each inmate that would normally give them an electric shock if they wandered somewhere they shouldn't; this bracelet would not give any such shock.

Early in the morning of March 27, 2019, the pair carried out the plan effortlessly; Sawhit turned off the breaker and Miwa murdered Naitō using the knife that had been confiscated from Hōinbō by the police. In order to frame Hōinbō for the crime, she repeatedly stabbed the same wound on Naitō's dead body with the signature weapon of the assassin; a chisel. The body was then moved to a prison workshop via a secret route within a well in the courtyard.

Unfortunately for her, Miles Edgeworth, who had been visiting the detention center in order to visit Naitō (as he was due to prosecute his case), eventually figured out what had transpired. Not only did he have Miwa arrested for Naitō's murder, but also revealed that Naitō was not a subordinate of Hōinbō's at all; someone had just manipulated the situation to make it seem that way.

On trial

 * Main article: The Grand Turnabout

Miwa was soon put on trial for Naitō's murder, with Franziska von Karma as the prosecutor and Tateyuki Shigaraki as her defense attorney. However, the trial soon ground to a halt when all of the evidence for the case vanished. After the investigation at the prison, Prosecutor Yumihiko Ichiyanagi was given the evidence since he was meant to be the one handling the case. However, his father Bansai Ichiyanagi took it from him and threw it into the trash in order to cover for Miwa. Unfortunately for the pair, however, Yumihiko sifted through garbage at the rubbish dump and was able to recover enough to convict Miwa for good.

Personality
Miwa had a habit of being overly affectionate when greeting people by both hugging and kissing them. Although she came across as motherly, she was not averse to threatening children and murdering others.

Miwa wore a white fox around her neck that was alive and usually copied her facial expressions. At one point she even spoke through it.

Name

 * Her full Japanese name comes from "mimawari", which means patrol.


 * Miwa's English name in the fan translation of Gyakuten Kenji 2 is "Patricia Roland"; the prefixes "Pat" and "Rol" form the word "patrol", which is a reference to her original Japanese name.

Development

 * Her fur coat is made of live foxes. They jump off her during her breakdown to reveal a blue and white striped convict shirt underneath.