Byrne Faraday

Byrne Faraday was a prosecutor who notably worked with detective Tyrell Badd on cases involving the Great Thief Yatagarasu and the Cohdopian smuggling ring. This eventually culminated in a trial in 2011, in which the defendant claimed that he was the Yatagarasu, which resulted in the deaths of both men.

The smuggling ring

 * Main article: KG-8 Incident

Through their investigations of the smuggling ring, Faraday and Badd found that the Amano Group was financing the ring. Cece Yew, an Amano Group employee, was the only witness that they had to prove this, but she was murdered before she could testify. However, a security camera in Yew's apartment caught the killer with the murder weapon, an employee of the Cohdopian Embassy named Manny Coachen. When Coachen was put on trial for the murder, Faraday prepared the security video as decisive evidence, but agents of the Amano Group stole the tape, and thus Coachen received a not guilty verdict due to a lack of decisive evidence. After the trial, Yew's sister Calisto accosted Faraday and Badd, blaming them for failing to convict her sister's killer. Faraday and Badd then realized that there were some people who simply could not be touched by the law, and vowed to bring down the smuggling ring from outside of the courts.

The Yatagarasu
Some time later, Faraday and Badd encountered Calisto again, and the three of them formed the Great Thief Yatagarasu, a vigilante thief dedicated to exposing illegal corporate dealings by stealing evidence from various companies and sending it to the media. Faraday aided the Yatagarasu's operation through his knowledge of disabling security measures, which he had gained from prosecuting criminals, as well as a device called Little Thief, which helped the Yatagarasu to plan heists. Over the next three years, the Yatagarasu went on to bring down many companies affiliated with the smuggling ring, but were unable to find the organisation's head. As a cover, Faraday and Badd placed themselves into every investigation into the Yatagarasu as "experts" on the thief, Badd also using his position as a detective to hide all evidence relating to the Yatagarasu, and Calisto attracted the attention of companies wanting to be protected from the Yatagarasu.

Death

 * Main article: Turnabout Reminiscence

Three years after the KG-8 Incident, Faraday broke into the Cohdopian Embassy and stole a special key. However, on the same day, Deid Mann, an embassy worker planning to testify against his employers' involvement with the smuggling ring, was shot and his killer, Mack Rell, was caught on camera committing the deed. In an unprecedented move, Calisto sent the key to the police rather than the media, prompting the police to christen it the Yatagarasu's Key. When Rell was captured, he claimed that he was the Yatagarasu. This prompted Faraday to retrieve the key and take it to court to falsify Rell's claims.

The trial against Rell was quick due to Faraday's decisive evidence, but Rell suddenly changed his story and accused Faraday of being the Yatagarasu, forcing the trial to be adjourned. Faraday subsequently took Rell into Defendant Lobby No. 2 to interrogate him. He offered to make a deal with Rell, but then Calisto entered the lobby, claiming to want a word with her client. However, she took the Yatagarasu's Key, opened the handle to reveal a knife blade, and stabbed Faraday with it. Faraday died instantaneously. She then enlisted Rell's help in setting up the surveillance video of Mann's death into a nearby VCR, with the intent of throwing off the time of death, and shot him when his work was done. She then altered the crime scene to make it look like the two men had killed each other.

When Miles Edgeworth, who was to prosecute Rell in Faraday's stead, investigated the double murder, he implicated Calisto Yew as the killer. She admitted that she had planned the entire chain of events leading to Faraday's death, and that she had been an agent of the smuggling ring all along. However, she tricked him into giving her the Yatagarasu's Key, and then she fled from the courthouse. Later, when Badd looked into Calisto Yew, he realized that Cece Yew never had a sister, and that the Yatagarasu had been infiltrated by its enemy from the start.

Succession

 * Main articles: The Kidnapped Turnabout and Turnabout Ablaze

Seven years later, Faraday's daughter Kay found her father's diary and realized that he had been the Yatagarasu all along. She adopted the Yatagarasu title for herself to find her father's killer, and she sought Edgeworth, who had become caught up in a series of murders related to the smuggling ring. The two of them, as well as their allies, went on to catch Faraday's killer and finally bring the smuggling ring's leader to justice, finishing the work of Cece Yew, Deid Mann and the Yatagarasu.

Name

 * His Japanese first name, "Kurou" (九郎), means "ninth son". The name may also come from the romanization of "crow".


 * His English first name, "Byrne", comes from the Gaelic word for "raven".


 * The surname "Faraday" may come from Michael Faraday, a famous chemist and physicist, or the "Faraday cage".

Development

 * The swirling cloud-like pattern on Byrne's scarf is similar to the (normally green) bags with white swirls that tie over the face that are often carried by thieves in Japanese fiction. This would be similar to a thief carrying a large burlap bag marked "swag" in British fiction or a white bag with a dollar sign on it in American fiction. Kay Faraday wears a vest with a similar swirling pattern.