Terry Fawles

Terry Fawles was Mia Fey's very first client, as well as the very first defendant to be prosecuted by Miles Edgeworth. He only appears in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney:  Trials and Tribulations as the defendant in the fourth case of the game (Turnabout Beginnings) which is trial only.

Name
A reflection of his Japanese name: tears falling.

Background
Five years prior to Case 3-4, Terry Fawles met, and was seduced by, 14-year old Dahlia Hawthorne, who proposed a fake kidnapping with him and her older stepsister, Detective Valerie Hawthorne. It was to grab hold of her family's treasured diamond for herself. They met at Dusky Bridge near Hazakura Temple, where Dahlia's twin sister Iris was living. This was when the Hawthorne sisters decided to betray him; Valerie first shot Fawles in the arm then Dahlia had purposefully jumped off the bridge and into Eagle River.

Fawles was blamed for this "murder" and sentenced to death, based on the testimony given by Valerie. For five years, Terry Fawles had been in solitary confinement wondering why Valerie had betrayed him.

Five years later, Terry escaped police custody and phoned Valerie to meet her at Dusky Bridge to ask her the reasons for her actions that day. He showed up at Dusky Bridge where he met who he thought was Valerie, but really Dahlia in disguise, after she killed Valerie behind his back. When he was leaving, Fawles was arrested for another murder he didn't commit: the murder of Sergeant Valerie Hawthorne.

At the trial, Terry was being represented by rookie attorney, Mia Fey, along with her co-council, the famous Diego Armando. After testifying that he had met Valerie instead of Dahlia, Terry had coughed up blood as a result from poison he drank near the channeling dojo, Hazakura Temple. He drank the poison, because his faith in Dahlia had waned a little bit. Soon, Terry Fawles collapsed on the stand and died, leaving his lawyer with an emotional scar in her soul, as well as the getaway for the true culprit, Dahlia Hawthorne.