Jake Marshall

— "Turnabout Imposter"

Jake Marshall is a detective working for the Los Angeles police department. He is a very aloof individual who keeps most of his motives and reasons for acting close to his heart.

He is friends with Bobby Fulbright and Dick Gumshoe, and was spurred to rejoin the Force after the recent drama within the court system because of its pivoting around Fulbright.

## Personality

Marshall is a rather curious character. Being completely wrapped up in the role of a cowboy desperado, he speaks in a rather western tone of voice, and acts the stereotypical cowboy. He’s relaxed, enigmatic and quite the pleasant company to have, though he tends to be a tad too into character sometimes. The guy has a habit of lazing about and dipping from work or putting little effort into things, but when he’s focused on something. He won’t stop until it’s solved. He’s willing to break the law for it too, in fact willing to break the law in general, so long as it benefits him in some way. He’s really just unafraid of consequences until they hit him later.

Marshall isn’t the best when it comes to technology, understanding the basics but little else of it and how it works. He more so is fine with allowing it to run its course itself, and taking those opportunities to relax and nap. He’s incredibly fond of cacti, spaghetti and Angel Starr’s steak lunches. Marshall isn’t the fastest gun in the west, tending to forget things or not understand certain concepts. But, he refuses to ask for help so..

After being arrested for impersonation and tampering of evidence, he’s become much more withdrawn and avoidant of others, in hopes of avoiding others becoming attached to him. After years of being both in and out of prison, the incident involving his late close friend, Goodman, still lingers over him. He’s fallen out of contact with old friends, and is essentially a lone cowboy walking the trail. He’s built a wall around himself, and it’s not coming down anytime soon.

## History

### Trilogy

Marshall was once a detective and a sort of mentor figure to Gumshoe. His brother, Neil Marshall, was a prosecutor and the two were kind of a powerful duo together, Neil being the brains and Marshall being the.. Well, brawn (and the looks), Neil was ahead of the game, being a prosecutor for a while thanks to his brains, whilst Marshall for the most part, stayed an officer, though they were still incredibly close. Marshall became a detective when it all first went down.

Eventually, the two wound up working together on their first case as a duo, the SL-9 case. Alongside detective Angel Starr, Bruce Goodman and the then Chief Detectives Damon Gant and Lana Skye. They were what made up the investigation team, and they had a goal, to find and arrest a serial killer, by the name Joe Darke. Through this, Marshall had ended up becoming fairly friendly with characters such as Starr and Goodman. It was a rough investigation, but they did it, they’d found him and arrested him. But the evidence wasn’t conclusive enough to convict him. And thus, his brother and Gant would interrogate him, before that though, Neil had gained the title of King of Prosecutors, right on the day they’d planned to interrogate Darke.

That was the last time Marshall had seen his brother, as the next moment, he’d been murdered, impaled on the nearby knight. The explanation was Joe Darke had killed him, but it didn’t make a lick of sense. His brother was replaced by Miles Edgeworth. Neil wouldn’t have died to someone like Darke, and as the evidence was ignored and the story was weaved, Marshall felt nothing but rage and hatred for the system, the prosecution, defense and even detectives. It was a cover up, and he knew it, and that knowledge was shared between the other detectives, Bruce and Angel. As the other two involved, Lana and Gant rose to the top, he was demoted to patrolman. For the next two years, Marshall repeatedly requested and begged for the case to be reopened and for the truth to be revealed.

He’d tried to convince his close friend Goodman to help, Bruce had access to the evidence, and he was at his wits ends to reopen the case and truly solve what happened. But Bruce refused, and Marshall took the only action he could’ve. Stealing the detective’s ID and disguising as Goodman, as a last ditch effort to seize the evidence, and force it to stay open. He used it to enter the evidence room, opening Goodman’s (already unlocked) locker. But, didn’t expect to be stopped during the plan by an officer, Mike Meekins. He couldn’t comply with the officer’s wishes, that’d give his disguise away, and thus he attacked. Knocking Meekins, he’d attempted to swiftly make a break for it with the evidence in tow. But, the evidence was gone, he had no choice but to leave empty-handed. Unbeknownst to Marshall, his run-in with Meekins was the event that triggered a universe-merge.

The next day, Bruce Goodman was found dead and he was put in charge of the crime scene.

Lana had been accused of the man’s murder, and Marshall, in his disgust for the system, for a while, believed it. He was brought to trial on the suspicion that he was the ‘second Goodman’, who was murdered in the Evidence Room. And what he’d attempted was revealed to the court, tampering with evidence is a serious crime, no matter how important it was to do so. And thus, he handed in his badge and went quietly. At least, he got the truth, that the truth was covered up with lies and forgeries.. He was completely unsurprised, apathetic even, as the court grew into chaotic hysterics.

He’d been sent to prison after that, through it finding out the truth behind the case when the sight of Damon Gant within the prison caught his attention. Marshall avoided him, and after learning through short meetings with others involved during visiting hours, discovered what Gant had done. That hatred’s grown and stayed over the years.

Marshall spent a number of years in prison on the charge of tampering with evidence and assault. However, his sentence was greatly shortened thanks to an appeal he made— hinging on how his actions ended up helping catch Gant— and he was freed sooner than originally anticipated. Though, he has stayed relatively quiet, having completely lost contact with anyone involved in the two crimes, and intended to keep it as such.

He worked at the 'Saloon' that sold his favorite pasta for a while, and never intended to get back into law enforcement again.

### Post-Trilogy

Things for Marshall stayed relatively quiet because of his non-involvement with the legal system. He lived a domestic and easy-going life working at the 'Saloon' and growing plants, attempting to heal from the scars of the past. However, due to his self-isolating nature as a lone ranger, he rarely got the help he genuinely needed in order to properly recover. His anger at the things that happened to him and the people around him was suppressed with no proper outlet. He coped through trying to ignore his feelings entirely, as he didn't want to burden others with problems he felt a cowboy should always go through by themselves.

Until it was revealed that one of the few people he stayed in contact with, Fulbright, was murdered and replaced by a spy. This was the second detective that Marshall liked who got killed for reasons related to 'corruption', and the second that was directly connected to him. This was a shock to Marshall, as he'd interacted with the imposter prior to their unveiling. Marshall felt ashamed, deceived, and enraged that his friend was stolen and replaced.

He determined himself to never let such a thing happen to someone else, and felt unsatisfied with how Fulbright's case was being treated as the 'be all end all' to the Dark Age of Law. Marshall attempted and succeeded in getting his detective badge back whilst Phoenix Wright was busy in Khura'in. As he worked on new cases, he quietly looked for more information regarding corruption within the force and possible other imposters.

## Trivia

* Marshall has undiagnosed autism, with his special interest being.. You guessed it. Cowboys.
* Though his cacti collection from his time in the force is gone now, Marshall managed to get his cacti Billy back and has a cactus farm growing once again.
* He had some Homosexual Feelings for Goodman before he died.
* Has an orange tabby cat called Sheriff, before you ask, yes, the cat wears a little bandana like he does.
* As mentioned by him in game, he doesn’t exactly hate Miles or Lana, it’s more so Damon and the system as a whole that his anger has always been directed at.

## Gallery

Marshall singing to what he thinks is Bobby Fulbright but is actually Phantom.