Maggey Byrde

Maggey Byrde is the unlucky defendant in Cases 2-1 and 3-3.

Name
Possibly comes from her unluckiness.

Background
Prior to her first appearance, Maggey's life is unknown although she said that when she was 6 months old, she fell off a high-story building and was hit by many cars.

She first appears in the series as a policewoman on trial for the murder of her boyfriend, Dustin Prince a fellow police officer. Thanks to her lawyer, Phoenix Wright, she was acquitted when the real murderer, Richard Wellington, had been proven to be the true culprit.

After that, she announced that she would become a waitress at an awful French restaurant known as Tres Bien. On December 3rd, while she was doing her job, Maggey noticed two men--Furio Tigre and Glen Elg--at a table. She saw Tigre slip poison into Elg's cup of coffee; when the younger man sipped the cup, he collapsed and died, causing Maggey to faint. Tigre decided to then frame her for the murder by having her boss, Jean Armstrong hide the two in the kitchen and reenact the crime to fool anyone into thinking Maggey killed the victim. Later, Tigre impersonated Phoenix to have Maggey convicted and tried a horrible case against the "Rookie Killer," Winston Payne.

A month later, however, the real Phoenix Wright took the case and exposed Tigre for the phony he was and cleared Maggey's name once more.