牙琉 霧人

Kristoph Gavin is a renowned defense attorney with his own law firm, and the former boss and mentor of Apollo Justice. He is Klavier Gavin's older brother.


Kristoph Gavin can largely be summed up as “lawfully evil”. He made a point of striving for perfection in all areas of life, particularly in court, where he considered the law and evidence to be absolutes upon which all judgments should be made. This gave Kristoph an extreme sense of self-importance and superiority, particularly over "common" citizens not involved in legal studies. This ironically drove him to compromise the law by finding loopholes, and he eventually resorted to forgery for the sake of fame and glory. In committing his crimes, Kristoph showed great cunning and paranoia with almost every move he made. He was very determined in guarding his secrets at all costs. In the end, the Jurist System was needed to foil his plans.

In 2019, renowned magician Magnifi Gramarye was murdered. As Zak Gramarye, one of his students, was to be tried for the murder, Gavin planned to use this opportunity to win the high-profile case. This desire caused him to do whatever it took to implicate the other half of Zak's magic act, Valant Gramarye. To this end, he asked a forger, Vera Misham, to manufacture a page in the victim's handwriting, which he would claim came from his diary. Gavin acted friendly towards Vera to gain her trust. Noticing that she had a habit of biting her nails whenever she was nervous, he planted atroquinine, an extremely deadly poison, in a bottle of nail polish and gave it to her as a gift, claiming that it was a "good luck charm" to soothe her fear. He told Vera that the magic of the charm would wear off if she told anyone about it. The idea behind this plot was that were she to become nervous, she would bite her nails, and effectively poison herself. He also laced a commemorative stamp of Troupe Gramarye with the same poison and sent it to Vera along with a letter, confirming the payment for the forgery and telling Drew to mail a receipt for the payment using the stamp. These poisons were planted so that the Mishams wouldn’t survive to talk about Gavin's involvement with them. However, Vera kept the stamp for herself (she is a fan of Troupe Gramarye), and replied to Gavin's letter with a different stamp.

When Gavin offered his services to Zak, the defendant challenged him to a game of poker as a test of trust. Gavin lost the game and Zak rejected him as his attorney. Zak had seen the man behind the cards and concluded that he was untrustworthy. He instead called Phoenix Wright to his cell and, upon losing to him, hired him as his attorney. Gavin felt cheated out of his quest for glory over a poker game. He decided to plant the forged diary page onto Trucy Enigmar to give to Phoenix, to ruin both him and his new defendant. He then told Klavier about the forgery prior to the trial, and Klavier used this information to devise a trap to expose the forgery. When Wright presented the diary page as evidence, Klavier summoned Drew to the stand, who admitted to having forged the diary page. However, Zak vanished from the courtroom before the verdict could be read, ending the trial with no verdict.

Seven years later, Zak reappeared to Wright under the name "Shadi Smith", and Kristoph saw his chance to kill him. He hid in a secret tunnel behind a cabinet in the basement of the Borscht Bowl Club, where Wright and Zak were playing poker, and waited for an opening during which he fatally attacked the man with a grape juice bottle. Wright made his accusation against Kristoph and replaced him as Justice's impromptu co-counsel. With Wright's help, Justice implicated Kristoph as the true culprit. About six months later, Drew sent a letter to Kristoph demanding that Kristoph remove the "magic" that he had placed on Vera. Having only the stamp that had been poisoned, he used it to send his letter. He died of atroquinine poisoning 15 minutes later, while Spark Brushel was interviewing him. Drew's daughter Vera was accused of committing the murder.

Phoenix Wright convinced the judicial system to use this case to test the Jurist System. The trial traced the poison to the stamp that Kristoph had poisoned seven years before. Pressured, Vera bit her nails, finally consuming the poison. The trial was suspended, and Vera was hospitalized. The trial resumed the next day. Justice called Kristoph to the stand as a special witness. Kristoph convinced the judge to reject all of Phoenix's investigative evidence and claims. He was then informed about the implementation of the Jurist System, through which the court had the power to declare an innocent verdict regardless of decisive evidence. When the trial concluded, the jury unanimously declared an innocent verdict for Vera.
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Taken from URL=http://aceattorney.wikia.com/wiki/Kristoph_Gavin his Ace Attorney Wiki page.