Awl

An awl belonging to Themis Legal Academy which was one of the props in the mock trial during the school festival. When Professor Constance Courte was found dead after said mock trial, the awl was initially thought to have been the weapon used to murder her.

It turned out that professor Aristotle Means had planted Courte's blood on the awl and left it in the art room &mdash; which he had staged to look like the apparent crime scene, when the real crime scene had actually been the outdoor stage &mdash; intending to frame Juniper Woods, as she was in charge of the props for the mock trial. Woods did not suspect anything when she saw the blood, believing it to be merely paint, as Courte had always insisted that the props be realistic. She thus ended up being arrested for Courte's murder when the police searched her and found the awl in her pocket.

However, Woods's defense attorney Athena Cykes revealed that the real murder weapon had been Means's staff, thus discrediting the awl as evidence and proving Means to be Courte's real killer.