Gregory Edgeworth

Gregory Edgeworth was a well-known defense lawyer and the father of Miles Edgeworth. He was the victim in the DL-6 Incident.

Father and son
"Phoenix Wright"

- That's when I heard his father was a defense attorney. I remember, his eyes would shine when he talked about his father.

Gregory Edgeworth was a very talented criminal defense attorney and his son Miles idolized him. Such was this adoration that Miles wanted someday to become a defense attorney just like his father and even intervened in a class trial to defend an innocent boy accused of stealing his lunch money. He objected to the accusation because there was no proof of who the culprit was. The boy was found innocent, and when asked why Miles had defended him, the aspiring defense attorney cited his father as his inspiration.

The IS-7 Incident

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Unreleased In 2000-2001, Gregory took on the case of chef Issei Tenkai, a famous television chef. He was aided in his investigation by Tateyuki Shigaraki, a young lawyer who idolized Gregory. The case was later officially known as the IS-7 Incident.

Confronting von Karma
In his last case, Gregory Edgeworth faced Manfred von Karma, a legendary prosecutor with a perfect win record. Although Edgeworth lost the trial, he managed to prove that von Karma had been presenting falsified evidence to try and rig the court in his favor. This accusation resulted in the only penalty that Manfred von Karma had ever received in his career, and the prosecutor's fury at this flaw in his perfect record.

Murder in an elevator

 * Main article: DL-6 Incident

"Manfred von Karma"

- You and your father are my curse! Your father shamed me with a penalty on my record! And you ...you left a scar on my shoulder that would never fade! I... I'll bury you! I'll bury you with my bare hands! Death! Death!

After the trial, Gregory and his son Miles proceeded to leave the courthouse, accompanied by Yanni Yogi, a bailiff. An earthquake struck the building and shut the power down, leaving the three stranded in an elevator for five hours. Eventually, the oxygen supply diminished, and Yogi started to panic. The two men fought, leaving Miles to try and stop them by throwing Yogi's pistol, which had been loosened from Yogi's belt. All three of them then passed out. The gun accidentally fired, hitting von Karma, who had wandered in front of the elevator door. Just then, the elevator door opened; already outraged by his penalty and in shock from his wound, von Karma picked up the gun and shot Gregory. Gregory Edgeworth died, never knowing who killed him. His spirit spoke through a spirit medium named Misty Fey, blaming Yanni Yogi for the murder.

Yogi was able to escape conviction by following his lawyer's advice and pleading temporary insanity, but the incident ruined his life. The incident also caused Fey to appear to be a fraud. Gregory's murder had a drastic effect on his son Miles, too; he developed a hatred for defense attorneys and spirit mediums, and was adopted by von Karma, who raised him in Germany to be a prosecutor. Miles also began to have nightmares about his father's murder and began to believe that he might have accidentally killed Gregory when he threw the pistol.

The real killer was not revealed until fifteen years later, when Phoenix Wright defeated von Karma in court and proved the prosecutor to be the true culprit.

Personality
From what little is known about Gregory Edgeworth, it would seem that he was a good man who wasn't afraid to stand up against corruption. This could be seen both in his in-court confrontation with von Karma and Miles' admiration of him.

Name

 * "Gregory" possibly comes from Gregory Peck, the actor who played the defense lawyer and central character of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird. Gregory Edgeworth even bears a resemblance to Peck's portrayal of Atticus Finch.


 * "Edgeworth" may come from "edge of a sword", just like his Japanese surname "Mitsurugi" (御剣), which contains the kanji of sword. This may be a reference to both Gregory and Miles Edgeworth having sharp minds and being "worthy" opponents for von Karma and Wright respectively.


 * His Japanese name first name comes from the word "shin" (信) which means "trust", "faith" or "belief".