This is about the organization, for the theme music associated with them see Committee for Prosecutorial Excellence - Stone-Cold Justice.
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| Organization type | Legal association |
| Headquarters | Bigg Building 50F Committee chamber (since 2018) |
| Leader | Excelsius Winner (after 2007 - April 6, 2019; arrested) |
| Organizational structure | Ten other members:
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| Affiliated groups | Bar association Prosecutor's office |
| Notable dates | April 4, 2019 - Rosie Ringer is murdered in the building. Kay Faraday is attacked. "Di-Jun Wang" is murdered. April 5, 2019 - Miles Edgeworth resigns as a prosecutor. April 6, 2019 - Excelsius Winner is arrested and stripped of his Committee leadership. April 8, 2019 - Miles Edgeworth is reinstated as a prosecutor. |
| Status | Active |
The Committee for Prosecutorial Excellence is a group of 11 individuals who are appointed by various political leaders and legal figures to investigate the activities of prosecutors. The Committee has ties to the bar association and functions similarly, though the bar association regulates defense attorneys instead. The chair of the Committee has tremendous power over the group, to the point that it has trouble functioning if the chair is out of commission. With the appointment of Excelsius Winner as the chair, the Committee launched a so-called "Prosecutor Purge", aiming to remove and replace problematic prosecutors. The Committee chamber was originally located in the Prosecutor's Building, but was moved to the 50th floor of the Bigg Building when it opened in 2018.
Targeting Edgeworth[]
- Main articles: Turnabout Trigger, The Captive Turnabout & Turnabout Legacy
In March 2019, Miles Edgeworth boarded the seaplane of President Di-Jun Wang of Zheng Fa during his investigation into an alleged assassination attempt, and ordered a search of the president's officials. Two days later, Edgeworth's murder suspect, Bronco Knight, was found murdered inside the prison. Edgeworth began to investigate the murder, but the Committee, under Excelsius Winner's direction, sent committee member Verity Gavèlle to the prison to take the prosecutor off the case and replace him with Excelsius' son Eustace. Despite repeated threats to have him fired, Edgeworth continued to investigate as an assistant to Knight's lawyer, Eddie Fender. Through his efforts, prison warden Fifi Laguarde was arrested for the murder. On April 2, Excelsius sent Gavèlle and Eustace to the Zodiac Hall to investigate a poisoning incident, but they met Edgeworth and Fender once again. Despite Gavèlle's attempts to take them off the case, they proved helpful due to the case's connection to the IS-7 Incident, which eventually led to the arrest of Judy Bound for the incident, and the arrest of Carmelo Gusto, the victim, as the culprit behind the IS-7 Incident.
Edgeworth's hearing[]
Excelsius ordered a hearing on April 5 to determine Edgeworth's future. On that day, however, committee member Rosie Ringer was found murdered in the Committee chamber. Excelsius forcefully tried to have Kay Faraday arrested for the murder, but Edgeworth opposed him, even giving up his prosecutor's badge so that he could no longer be threatened with it. This caused Faraday to run away, with Edgeworth in hot pursuit. Both were later found and arrested after they were found conducting their own investigation of the murder. Edgeworth's hearing was postponed to the next day.
Many secrets were exposed during the hearing. Both Edgeworth and Franziska von Karma had independently discovered that the Committee chamber was secretly being used for black market auctions of police evidence, and Edgeworth accused Excelsius of being the auction conductor. Several people came forward, such as Florence Niedler, who had been coerced by the auction conductor into being an accomplice to Ringer's murder. It turned out that both Ringer and Gavèlle had joined the Committee to bring Excelsius down for his role in the auction and in manipulating various cases, such as the IS-7 Incident and the SS-5 Incident. Edgeworth proved that Excelsius was the one behind all of these accusations, and the chair was arrested, relinquishing his authority. On April 8, Edgeworth decided that he would continue as a prosecutor, and Gavèlle returned his badge.
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