Cece Yew

Cece Yew was an Amano Group employee and the victim of the KG-8 Incident.

Death

 * Main article: KG-8 Incident

Yew was an employee of the Amano Group, but she discovered evidence of a smuggling ring involving members of the company and went to the police to testify about what she had seen, who put veteran detective Tyrell Badd in charge of her protection. In response to the ensuing scandal, the leader of the smuggling ring, Quercus Alba, sent another member of the ring, Manny Coachen, to silence her. He succeeded, but was caught on tape entering her apartment with a knife. Coachen was arrested for her murder and put on trial, with Byrne Faraday as prosecutor and Tyrell Badd as the detective. However, Ernest Amano sent one of his agents to steal the tape, and Coachen was found not guilty due to lack of evidence.

Aftermath
Alba placed one of his agents to pose as Yew's sister, calling herself Calisto Yew. Her reactions to Coachen's trial were convincing enough that Faraday and Badd approached her to form a vigilante group. "Calisto" eventually agreed to join them under Alba's orders, and the three became the Great Thief Yatagarasu. Three years later, the agent was forced to betray the Yatagarasu, killing Faraday and then escaping Badd's wrath. Badd later uncovered "Calisto"'s deception in that Cece Yew never had a sister.

Ten years after Yew's death, Ernest Amano was arrested, and Badd searched Amano's house and found the tape showing Manny Coachen entering Yew's apartment. A prosecutor working for Alba, Jacques Portsman, tried to take the tape, as well as some of Faraday's old files from his old office, but the office's new owner, Miles Edgeworth, soon implicated him for murder and retrieved the tape. Shortly after that, Yew's killer, Coachen, was found dead. While working on this case, Miles Edgeworth identified Coachen as Yew's killer, had "Calisto Yew" arrested, and brought Quercus Alba to justice, finally finishing the task that Cece Yew had started ten years earlier.

Name

 * "Kazura" (葛水) may be taken from "karasu", the Japanese word for "crow".


 * Her English name is probably a play on "see you", which could refer to witnessing her boss's illegal activities. Alternatively, "see you" could be a farewell, due to her death.


 * Alternatively, "Cece Yew" could be a play on "CCU", which can stand for "Camera Control Unit", possibly as a reference to her murderer being caught on tape.

Note
Unlike other characters that died years before their début (such as Celeste Inpax and Neil Marshall), Cece Yew is currently the only character to be mentioned, and have significance to a case, that does not appear with a profile and mugshot in the court record. Her only appearance in-game is in a newspaper clipping about the KG-8 Incident.