Maggey Byrde

Maggey Byrde is the unlucky defendant in The Lost Turnabout and Recipe for Turnabout.

Early life
When Maggey was six months old, she fell off the ninth floor of an apartment building. Since then, she has experienced a myriad of disasters such as getting hit by cars. She became known as the "Goddess of Misfortune" as she grew up, and at college, people called her "Lady Luckless".

In the police force

 * Main article: The Lost Turnabout

During Byrde's employment in the local police force, she started to date Dustin Prince, a fellow officer. About three months later, Prince was killed, and she was accused and brought to court for the crime. She hired Phoenix Wright to represent her, but Richard Wellington rendered him unconscious and Wright lost his memory. Nonetheless, she acted as Wright's co-council, guiding him through the trial process, until Wright exposed Wellington as the true culprit, leading to Byrde's acquittal.

Byrde was fired soon afterward.

As a waitress

 * Main article: Recipe for Turnabout

Soon after her trial, Jean Armstrong employed Byrde as a waitress at his restaurant Trés Bien. On Dec. 3, 2018, during her shift, Byrde served coffee to two men, Furio Tigre and Glen Elg, at a table. She saw Tigre slip potassium cyanide into Elg's cup of coffee; when Elg drank his coffee, he collapsed and died, causing Byrde to faint. When Byrde woke up, she found that she had been accused of the crime; Tigre had had Armstrong hide Byrde and Elg in the kitchen and reenact the crime to fool a witness into thinking Byrde had killed the victim. Byrde again hired Phoenix Wright to defend her, but Tigre appeared instead, disguised as Wright, and Tigre intentionally put up a poor defense against the case of prosecutor Winston Payne.

A month later, however, the real Phoenix Wright appealed the case and exposed Tigre as the killer, clearing Byrde's name once more.

Relationship with Dick Gumshoe
During the course of her second trial, Dick Gumshoe was compelled by his position to testify against Byrde, which upset her. Gumshoe tried to deliver a box of sausage weenies to her via Wright, but she said that she did not like sausage weenies. Later, at the end of the trial, Wright gave Byrde a bigger box of weenies that Gumshoe had made, and Byrde forgave Gumshoe, admitting that she loved weenies.

As a security guard
Unreleased Byrde is set to appear in Turnabout Visitor as a security guard who knows a key fact about the case.

Name

 * The English name comes from the magpie (hence "Maggey"), a bird (hence "Byrde") that is said to bring bad luck.


 * The Japanese name comes from the phrase "make tsudzuki", which means "continues to lose".


 * The French name "Loiseau" could be derived from "oiseau" (which means "bird").