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Vera Misham is the defendant in the murder of her father, Drew Misham. Vera is very shy and withdrawn; Ema Skye described her as "sickly". She had a very closed and simple life before her father's murder and knows very little of the world outside of her home. Vera speaks in fragmented sentences and rarely makes any facial expressions, drawing how she felt on a notepad instead.


Early in life, Vera Misham was almost kidnapped. This experience traumatized her to the point of being unwilling to go outside at all and never smiling or talking much. She learned instead to draw her emotions on a notepad. Drew even home-schooled Vera.

Vera's father, Drew, was a failing artist; her mother had left them because of this. Vera liked to copy Drew's drawings, and Drew eventually discovered that she was extremely talented at this, being able to create copies indistinguishable from the originals. In fact, she could copy just about anything given the necessary materials. Needing money, Drew gave Vera paintings to forge and sold them on the black market. He sold the works himself to protect his daughter. Vera never knew about the illegality of her actions. 

One day, Kristoph Gavin asked Vera to fabricate a piece of Magnifi Gramarye's journal. Gavin was friendly to Vera, giving her a bottle of (poison-laced) nail polish as a gift. He claimed that it was a "good luck charm" and that its magic would wear off if she told anyone about it. Later, Gavin sent a letter to the Mishams along with a commemorative Troupe Gramarye stamp. The letter confirmed the payment for the forgery and told Drew to mail a receipt for the payment using the stamp.  Vera grew attached to the commemorative stamp and wanted to keep it, so Drew used a different stamp to send the receipt. 

Seven years later, Drew wrote a letter to Kristoph Gavin; he used the Troupe Gramarye stamp, as he could find no other stamp to use. He later died during an interview with a reporter, leaving traces of atroquinine poison on his coffee mug; Vera served coffee to Drew every night at 9:00 p.m. This lead investigators to believe that Vera had poisoned the coffee, and thus Vera was arrested for her father's murder. Vera tried desperately to resist, saying she would die if she left the studio, but then she agreed to be taken outside with her "good luck charm".

In court, Drew's career as a forger came up, and Justice proved the atroquinine had come from the commemorative stamp and that Vera, not Drew, had been the real forger. Thus, Vera was called to testify about her life of crime. She was nervous and began to bite her nails, and she stared at Klavier during her testimony due to his likeness to Kristoph. Justice and Klavier kept pressing her for more information about the forged evidence and the client of the fake page, but Vera stared at Klavier again told them that "the Devil" had been the client, and suddenly fainted. In the hospital, she was diagnosed with acute atroquinine poisoning.

Justice was able to convince the jury that Kristoph is the true culprit. Vera was acquitted by a unanimous vote from the jury, thus defeating everything that Kristoph had plotted.

At the hospital, Vera recovered from the poison, which was a miraculous occurrence as no one else was ever known to have survived atroquinine poisoning. She thanked Apollo Justice and Trucy Wright for helping her. She also felt guilty for unknowingly causing Phoenix Wright's disbarment, and wanted to meet him again to apologize for what she had done. She decided she would give up being a forger and take up painting original works. She overcame her fear of the outside world, acknowledging that there were good people in the world, having met some of them.  
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Taken from URL=http://aceattorney.wikia.com/wiki/Vera_Misham her Ace Attorney Wiki page.