Judge (younger brother)

"Judge (younger brother)"

- Hmm... Car thieves... I'm not sure how I feel about car thieves.

"Mia Fey"

- (Is this guy sure about how he feels about ANYTHING?)

The Judge's brother refers to the judge presiding over Luke Atmey's trial, Terry Fawles's second trial and the first day of Iris's trial. He is the younger brother of the usual judge that presides over Phoenix Wright's cases.

Hawthorne murder trial

 * Main article: Turnabout Beginnings

In 2012, the judge presided over a trial that debuted both defense attorney Mia Fey and prosecutor Miles Edgeworth. The defendant, Terry Fawles, was accused of murdering police sergeant Valerie Hawthorne. Although Fey mounted a successful defense and nearly had Edgeworth's eyewitness accused of murder, the defendant committed suicide by swallowing poison before the trial could be concluded.

Mask☆DeMasque trials

 * Main article: The Stolen Turnabout

In 2018, the judge presided over the trial of Luke Atmey for the theft of a Fey family heirloom, one of three trials related to the identity of notorious thief Mask☆DeMasque. Another of the trials was occurring in a different courtroom, presided by the judge's brother, in which Ron DeLite was accused of murder. Before the judge was able to declare a verdict on Atmey, the defendant was called into the other trial as a witness, and was subsequently implicated for the murder there, ending both trials in not guilty verdicts.

Deauxnim murder trial

 * Main article: Bridge to the Turnabout

In 2019, the judge was called to preside over the Elise Deauxnim murder trial. He seemed to remember vaguely the standing defense attorney, who was actually Miles Edgeworth filling in for an incapacitated Phoenix Wright, but prosecutor Franziska von Karma assured him that the attorney was not from the prosecutor's office. The judge immediately attempted to have von Karma's whip confiscated, but Edgeworth requested that she be allowed to keep it. The deliberations were eventually postponed for the next day, but by then, the judge had caught a fever, so his older brother presided the trial in his place.

Personality
"Phoenix Wright"

- So they're brothers! That explains a lot...

The judge is naïve and gullible, albeit not as extremely as his brother. Like his brother, he is very easily wooed by female witnesses such as Dahlia Hawthorne. He tries to run standard, serious trials with minimal eccentricities, even once attempting to remove Franziska von Karma's whip from the courtroom. However, he does seem to be prone to giving abrupt verdicts without allowing time for any new points to be presented, as he needed to be stopped via objections numerous times during the part of Iris's trial that he oversaw. He also has a habit of saying that he doesn't know how he feels about certain topics that come up in court.

This judge seems to exhibit a stereotypical Canadian personality. He has certain verbal ticks, such as saying "aboot" in place of "about", ending sentences with "eh", and referring to some people as hosers. He also discusses many subjects that a stereotypical Canadian might discuss, such as hockey (and his "playoff beard"), foods (donuts and beer), and "double-doubles" (referring to a coffee from Tim Hortons, a highly popular Canadian coffee shop, that has two spoonfuls of sugar and two parts cream).

Name
The judge's younger brother's real name is never revealed, much like his own older brother, Valant Gramarye, Bikini, the Gatewater bellboy, "Director Hotti/Hickfield" and "Calisto Yew/Shih-na".