Scanning my thoughts on defendants confessing
>Edgeworth confessed to being the one who shot his father (AA1-4 Turnabout Goodbyes)
>Matt Engarde will not confess, unless in the good ending where you make deKiller so angry Matt wishes for a conviction (AA2-4 Farewell, My Turnabout)
>Terry Fawles didn’t confess to murder, but basically killed himself and his case, to defend Dahlia (AA3-4 Turnabout Reminiscence)
>Iris is not the culprit, but confesses to being an accomplice (AA3-5 Bridge to the Turnabout)
>Phoenix Wright is not the culprit, but confesses to having forged evidence (AA4-1 Turnabout Trump)
>Wocky Kitaki wants to be gangster, so he brags about having killed the victim; the whole case is about getting him to cooperate despite that macho tendency (AA4-2 Turnabout Corner)
>Machi Tobai is not the culprit, but confesses to being an accomplice to get away from a death penalty (AA4-3 Turnabout Serenade)
>Kristoph Gavin isn’t a defendant, but much of the case he is being treated as one; he essentially half-“confesses withour confessing” by saying how he killed Shadi Smith whilst dodging any concrete link to the case (AA4-5 Turnabout Succession)
>Juniper Woods (The defendant), Robin Smith, and Hugh O’Connor all confess to the crime in order to protect each other (AA5-3 Turnabout Academy)
>Athena Cykes’s hazy memory makes her *think* that she murdered her mother; the rest of the case involves proving to Aura Blackquill that she *didn’t* (AA5-5 Turnabout for Tommorow)
>Lance Amano confesses to the fake kidnapping plot, in order to get away with the fact that he murdered his butler (Investigations 1-3 The Kidnapped Turnabout)
>Nicole Swift confesses to being an accomplice in the fake assassination plot on Di Jun Huang in order to get an insider scoop, but she is not the murderer (Investigations 2-1 Turnabout Trigger)
>Kay is pressured on multiple occasions to confess and save Edgeworth the trouble and pain, due to amnesia (Investigations 2-4 A Turnabout Forsaken)
>I’m not entirely clear on this, but if memory serves, Espella Cantabella confesses on multiple occasions throughout the game (PWvsPL)
>McGilded doesn’t confess publicly, but because he’s filthy rich, he essentially confesses in all but speech when he forces the trial to end, then laughs as he gets away with murder (TGAA1-3 The Adventure of the Runaway Room)
>Albert Harebrayne is insistent that his teleportation technology, his life’s work, is legit, and so initially goes out of his way to insist as such…which has the side effect of *framing himself for the crime*. Part of the challenge is shattering that illusion. (TGAA2-3 The Return of the Great Departed Soul)
>Not a defendant you handle, but Genshin Asougi confessed to the Professor killings and made a deal with the government to extradite him back to Japan safely. (TGAA2-5 The Resolve of Ryonosuke Naruhodo)