Forum Game: Objection!

---Witness Testimony: Within the Darkness---


Around 12 am, a few minutes after midnight, we been gettin calls by 'em folks livin' up there around Global Studios ahearin multiple gunshots. My boys and I rode like the wind and started searching the area. Eventually, after spreading out, I used my search warrant and went into the Walter Warehouse with a partner for back-up...where we found that dirt black basement. The basement was still smokin' hot so I reckon I had to wait a while till the rooster settled down and all the smoke cleared. I told my partner to wait up and watch our backs, in case the man with the gun was still around.

So I went in first. The area was burnt to the crisp, but with a few spots like the side shelves in tact...like a good ol' barbecue with one of the patties missin'. The shelves had a few��� empty wet plastic containers, and some kind of dandy machine gun on the floor next to it.��� Next to the drainage hole was a half broken barrel. My guess is the culprit was dumping something down there before all this ruckus.

I entered the side-door where there the lab's security camera control panel was. Now ya'll know im terrible at these kind of computer things, so it took me a while to browse through that baby. After a few minutes, I figured out the controls and found one photo taken 1 minute before midnight.��� You guessed it. It was that sad hippie over there in the defendant chair. Then, I called the cattle in to take care of the evidence and left. And that about sums it up, partner.

TL;DR, these are the points that the defense feels the need of a clarification :

- When did the fire start?
- What was the cause of the fire?
- Did anyone actually report about the warehouse fire? If there is, who was it? If there are none, why was there none?
- Why was there a time window between the gunshot and the calls?

Does the witness or the prosecution has anything to say about this?

Oh, sorry :3

Godot: You can't see the fire of a roaster when you open a bag of coffee, Miss Skye.

Skye: ...

Godot: The fire started and ended underground, in a basement. No one must have heard it, unless people have evolved the ability to hear through twenty feet of solid concrete. The when and where doesn't matter - the fires were still smoldering when our Detective arrived at the scene. Clearly, the fire could only have been started recently - and the only person there before the police arrived was the man in the photo.

*sips coffee* Evidence is everything in court. You aren't going to go anywhere with this line of questioning, sweetheart, as long as the evidence shows Gumshoe at the scene of the crime.

As for the window of time, people don't call the police immediately, especially at that hour. Most of them were in their beds or occupied. Accounting for the time it would take to reach a phone and call, a gap of a few minutes is perfectly reasonable.

But I do have a few questions. Detective, did you happen to look inside the drainage hole? And when exactly did you arrive at the scene?

No problem. Can I have Edgeworth back now? :/

Sure, too complicated for me lol.