DL-6 Incident



The DL-6 Incident is an important case in the Ace Attorney series. It has directly and indirectly impacted the lives of many people in the series. It was the focus of a trial in which Yanni Yogi was accused of killing the victim Gregory Edgeworth. It was also the only time in which a spirit medium from Kurain Village was used in an investigation. The defendant escaped conviction by pleading temporary insanity; the medium who was used at the time, Misty Fey, became a scapegoat, and the reputation of the Kurain tradition was ruined.

The Incident
Gregory Edgeworth had just finished a trial in which he faced the infamous prosecutor Manfred von Karma, and although he lost, he managed to prove that von Karma had tampered with a piece of evidence. The Chief Prosecutor decided to give von Karma a penalty, the first von Karma had ever received. Gregory then found his son Miles, and they entered one of the court's lifts along with a bailiff, Yanni Yogi.

An earthquake suddenly shook the building and the power to the building was cut, leaving the lift's three passengers trapped and running out of air. At the same time, Manfred von Karma was in the evidence room, distraught over his new penalty, and when the lights went out he decided to try to find his way out of the courthouse. By that time, the atmosphere in the elevator was extremely tense, and Yogi began to panic and attack Gregory. Miles picked up a pistol that had fallen from Yogi's belt and shouted at Yogi to let his father go. He threw the gun towards them just as von Karma was passing the elevator. The gun went off, and the bullet passed through the elevator doors and into von Karma's shoulder. He let out a hideous scream just as the occupants of the lift lost consciousness.

Immediately afterward, the power returned to the building and the elevator doors opened. Von Karma picked up the gun and shot Gregory Edgeworth in the heart. He then left the crime scene quickly, leaving the police few leads in their investigation.

Summoning and trial
As they did not have many ideas as to who to charge for the murder, the police decided to use a medium to contact the victim. Because of the popularity and power of Kurain Village, they consulted the Master of the Kurain Channeling Technique, Misty Fey. The channeling itself was a success; the spirit of Gregory Edgeworth accused Yogi of killing him. (Due to the nature of the killing, he could not have known that von Karma was anywhere near the elevator.)

The police then began to gather their evidence to try to convict Yogi, including Miles's testimony. In response to this, Yogi hired Robert Hammond to defend him. However, since the evidence was condemning and Hammond only cared about winning the trial for himself, he asked Yogi to plead temporary insanity due to the oxygen deficiency. (The evidence itself seemed to agree with this plea, especially as Yogi attacked the victim before they passed out.) Yogi was acquitted through this plea.

The Aftermath
The verdict would have a lasting negative impact on most of the participants involved in the incident. Von Karma went on a six-month "vacation" shortly after the incident to allow his wound to heal without anyone knowing about it. Gregory's son Miles was now an orphan; von Karma, upon returning from his convalescing holiday, took him in and raised him to be a ruthless prosecutor with an utter disdain for criminals and a willingness to use methods that were barely legal to maintain his perfect record. (However, as revealed in Rise from the Ashes, he would never knowingly resort to fraudulent evidence.) Miles also met von Karma's daughter Franziska, with whom he formed a strong sibling bond.

Meanwhile, "information seeker" Redd White bribed Marvin Grossberg into telling him about Fey's involvement in the incident, and he then sold the information to the media. This destroyed the credibility of Misty Fey as well as that of the entire Fey clan and Kurain tradition. Because of this, Fey left her family behind and vanished from society, leaving her title as Master to one of her children once she remained missing for 20 years. Redd White then began to blackmail Grossberg into paying him with money and items that he liked.

Yanni Yogi's insanity plea lost him his job and his credibility. His fiancée, Polly Jenkins, eventually committed suicide. His life was ruined. He decided to hide, creating a new life for himself as the keeper of the boating shack at Gourd Lake, and buying a parrot, which he named Polly, to keep him company. He never forgot the pain he had been subjected to, and he blamed the whole thing on Hammond, which drove him to take action against him when the perfect opportunity arose.