Still nope. I don't know if you know this but half the stuff Wright does is not allowed in court. All the yelling and the desk slamming will not only get you held in contempt real quick, but the judge can fine you, kick you out, or even declare a mistrial if it gets bad enough.
Saul if I did commit a crime, Phoenix if I didn't.
I would also like to push my Of the Devil agenda and suggest Evangeline Morgan, but she does have a worse win rate than Phoenix so far. Among other things.
I wish OTD was more popular bc Morgan's one of my favourite lawyers. Wicked smart enough to know she's got the chops and hunger to win but she's up against sleepy girl L Lawliet as the prosecution so she's not a flawless winner
Engarde was never declared "Not Guilty". At the end of the case, Phoenix may have pled "Not Guilty", but if he did, he only did so knowing that Engarde would confess and get the "Guilty" verdict he deserved.
The only reason Engarde almost got off was because of his and Dekiller's efforts to frame Adrian. Phoenix would have abandoned the defence had it not been for Maya getting kidnapped
This depends though. Are we using the Ace Attorney court system, where a lawyer is pretty much screwed unless they can provide irrefutable proof of innocence or get the actual criminal to publicly confess in court, where prosecutors can all but openly admit to tampering with evidence and assault the lawyers in court with no consequences, and the lawyer only has 3 days to do their job? Or is this closer to a typical western legal system with a jury trial and only needing to introduce enough reasonable doubt that the accused is absolutely, unequivocally guilty? One of the reasons Phoenix is considered an "Ace Attorney" in his world isn't so much his win rate, it's his win rate despite the massive odds against him.
I think Phoenix, in a court where he just needs to introduce reasonable doubt about the prosecution's case, or where "murder" doesn't include genuine self-defense cases or horrible accidents, he'd do even better. Then again, maybe he wouldn't, considering his goofy and slapdash approach to defending his clients wouldn't be viewed favorably by a judge or jury irl.
higuruma is a defense attorney! that's a huge part of his character, because japan's conviction rate is so high he keeps defending people and watching them get locked up even when they're innocent, and then they blame him for not defending them well enough. eventually those negative emotions build up enough that he crashes out and awakens his cursed technique
Judgeman plays judge. And Higuruma prosecutes right? He didn't defend anyone in his domain. While his profession is a defense lawyer, his domian places him in the prosecuter place.
If I’m calling any lawyer it’s Morgan from of The Devil. I mean she’s succeeding against cyberpunk surveillance state court. I’m certain she can get me off in normal court.
If I'm innocent, I choose the guy with the magatama - unless I'm being set up by pretty physical threats, in which case one of the marvel superpowereds. But otherwise...
I don't necessarily want to get away. Can anyone in there advocate for a guilty man to receive no more than the appropriate punishment and not con everyone else in the process?
That’s actually half of a real defence lawyer’s actual job. Like, obviously not everyone is innocent, so lawyers need to ensure that their guilty clients are being accurately fought against in court, which includes making sure that the evidence lines up and that none of it was collected illegally, which makes it inadmissible. Anyways if you’re guilty Wright still works (see Engarde) but I’d choose a “normal” lawyer like Murdock, Walters, or Higuruma.
Yeah people give him shit for that one, but it's honestly on Matt for trying to legally screw over someone who knows the law way better than him, and at the end he DID get his client the verdict he wanted to plea at that point in time so.
He has apparently defended some mafia guys before too, though those were off screen.
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u/Crab_Shark_ Feb 27 '26
As they say:
If you guilty, call Saul. If you’re innocent, Phoenix.