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Wataru Shirase was a police detective at the time of the IS-7 Incident.
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- Main article: IS-7 Incident
Detective Shirase was initially in charge of the IS-7 investigation, until being replaced by Tyrell Badd after the lead prosecutor for the case, Manfred von Karma discovered that Shirase had apparently neglected to inform von Karma that the body of the victim, Paul Holic had disappeared.
However, after Badd cooperated with the defendant's defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth and realized that the victim's autopsy report was falsified, Shirase was brought back to replace Tyrell as a witness for the subsequent trial. After Edgeworth proved that evidence had been falsified in court, von Karma received the only penalty in his "perfect" record. However, it was Shirase that took the brunt of the blame and was soon fired.
Years later, it later transpired that the then-Chief Prosecutor, Bansai Ichiyanagi had pressured Shirase into not informing von Karma of the body's disappearance.
Name
Shirase's English name in the fan translation of Gyakuten Kenji 2 is "Rip Lacer". This is a play on "replacer", which references the fact he was replaced by, and later replaced, Tyrell Badd.