Shirley Forbes

Shirley Forbes is an who in 2030 is working with the Remnant office in Philadelphia. Her first interaction with the Remnant comes when she is assigned the case of local teenager Keisha Banks who had been rescued from near-death by Remnant forces commanded by General Typher Marlion after Keisha had missed numerous days of school with no notice at all causing her Homeroom teacher Jedi Knight Darius Carpenter great concern. As the details of the disturbing case were revealed, Forbes decided that it was appropriate to seek the for Brad Warren who Marlion said was in possession of numerous weapons including some that had belonged to the First Order. Forbes also oversaw the prosecution of Keisha's mother Tiana Banks for her roles in both the attempted murder of Keisha and in Brad's illegal enterprises. After a preliminary hearing, Forbes allows Tiana to enter into a in exchange for her testimony against Brad accepting the plea once Tiana has finished testifying. After a brief trial, a jury eventually convicts Brad of all charges and Judge Dionne Evans sentences Brad to death while accepting the plea entered by Tiana and sentencing her to 40 years in a Federal Prison. During the trial, Forbes is also informed that Tiana had kept Keisha from her father Jeremie Clarke and that Brad had impregnated Keisha while she had been unconscious.
She is later mentioned as handling the appeals process on Brad's death sentence as Lieutenant Colonel Lucy Carpenter and Major Eric Schuyler work on other cases with everyone in agreement that Brad got the sentence he justly deserved and noting that Brad is running out of appeals and will not be receiving intervention from President Ezra Bridger. She later serves as the prosecutor in the trial of former Remnant Security Bureau Major Hans Dietrich and handles the beginning of the court process for General Arthur Vandaley and a group of mercenaries he had hired to recover a project file which ended up with a woman being murdered which was investigated by Lucy, Eric, Major Jason Oliver, and Colonel Alex Mackey.
In 2032, she prosecutes the cases against KaShonda McCutchen and Eugene Marsden after the bring a Homicide case to the attention of the Remnant as the victim Kyle Jackson was a coworker of Darius Carpenter. She is able to obtain a for the home Marsden who had been under investigation by Oliver and Christopher Felth for dealing drugs with LaShonda's son Shaun McCutchen who was later revealed to be Kyle Jackson's son as her key witness. She eventually orders the arrest of LaShonda McCutchen after receiving additional information from Marlion who had sent Shaun with Lucy and Darius for a Medical Evaluation where the doctors found that not only was Shaun suffering from malnutrition but had also consumed some of the drugs found in the home by Marlion's forces as the drugs had been mixed in with what little food was in the house. She later wins a motion to have attorney Bernard LeMay removed from the case after he had hired s to locate and follow Shaun in what Judge Douglas Schroeder called a brazen attempt to circumvent a court order and prepares to prosecute LeMay for attempting to tamper with a witness once LeMay serves out a 240 Day sentence for for ignoring the court's order and then for disrespecting Judge Schroeder by accusing him of being in Tevin Felth's pocket. She is later approached by Marsden's new attorney Jericho Swope who tells her a story that Marsden had wanted to tell her, but had been told by LeMay that it wasn't happening. After confirming the details of the story with Shaun, Shirley allows Marsden to plead out on a lessor charge for his very minor role in Jackson's murder along with the drug case in exchange for his testimony against McCutchen. The case eventually gets to trial after Shirley has LaShonda charged with three more murders after Shaun tells her that he had two sisters who suddenly went missing with their remains being found along with the remains of their father by a team led by Eric Schuyler and Jason Oliver. After a trial in which LaShonda's attorney Regina Edwards attempted to discredit Shirley's witnesses, accused the Felth Family of railroading her client by , and tried to accuse Shaun of murdering Kyle himself as well as calling Keisha Banks a whore among other things during which Shirley informs Regina about the birth of Darius Banks the year before, the Jury convicts LaShonda and sentences her to Death. Shirley later tells Regina that she intends to refer Regina's conduct to the Ethics Committee of the after Regina calls Keisha a whore for the second time while also claiming that Justin Felth who had been observing the trial with Ryan Pratchard Jr. had influenced the Judge and Jury and stating that she intended to appeal the verdict. Shirley also tells Shaun that she can't prosecute any of the Felth Family-inspired antics such as Keisha giving Shaun a headslap and Caleb Carpenter hitting Shaun with a frying pan among other things even going as far as to quote Sergeant Schultz after the headslap.
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