![]() In her case, she uses any means at her disposal to find information for her articles stories, including leaving tape recorders all over the school. She takes Aristotle Means' teachings to heart, and believes as he does that the end justifies the means. She used to run the school newspaper entirely by herself, and took great pride in her articles, although most of them are nothing but gossip and slander. Scuttlebutt is a secretive and inherently suspicious person, who is also socially maladjusted and solitary. However, she was less pleased that the first thing they reported on was her crying so much during the graduation rehearsal that her cardboard box got soggy. She was also pleased that the school newspaper had undergone something of a revival after the trial, in that new members had joined. She wondered if this was because she herself wanted to be a legal journalist, rather than a lawyer or judge. Scuttlebutt later found some "really sweet" cardboard boxes for her three new friends, but they refused to wear them. Woods told her new friend that she would need her help to end the so-called " dark age of the law". In return, Scuttlebutt gave Cykes the two photographs she hadn't deleted, which proved vital to Cykes the following day in court, and allowed her to prove that the real killer of Courte was Professor Aristotle Means.Īfter Woods was acquitted, Scuttlebutt slowly began to integrate herself into Woods' circle of friends. Cykes promised to lend Scuttlebutt a spare laptop from the Wright Anything Agency office, but only if Scuttlebutt openly asked the others if she could be their friend. The lawyers learned that the only reason she followed and kept tabs on Woods, O'Conner, and Newman was because she wanted to be their friend. ![]() Scuttlebutt had taken Cykes' calling her a failure to heart and was inconsolable, to the point of deleting her treasured photograph collection from her laptop, leaving only two remaining after Cykes sheepishly apologized. Cykes and Justice followed her to the maintenance area and talked to her about what had happened at the trial. After they finished, Scuttlebutt left the area. They considered talking to her, but decided against it and left her alone as they investigated the stage. Later that day, when Cykes and Justice went to investigate the stage area, they found a depressed Scuttlebutt hiding in a new box and sitting on the stage. Scuttlebutt began trying to pretend to be a friend of Woods in order to glean what information she could from the two lawyers, but Justice's bracelet soon revealed her lie. Woods was arrested for the crime and Scuttlebutt soon found herself being questioned by Woods' attorneys, Athena Cykes and Apollo Justice. However, the eager young journalist ended up tripping on her cardboard box and falling, thereby losing her target.ĭuring the mock trial, Courte was found murdered. Although the person in the costume was actually Newman, Scuttlebutt thought instead that it was Woods, and so started to follow her. On the morning of the mock trial, Scuttlebutt snuck into Woods' dressing room while the other students were in the school's lecture hall and found someone trying on the stage costume Woods had made for her performance of " The Guitar's Serenade" at the festival. She mistakenly took this as an upcoming love confession, and wrote that the whoever won the mock trial between O'Conner and Robin Newman would confess their love to Woods. Using her status as the only member of the school's newspaper club, she started writing slander and lies about Woods and her friends, calling her a "she-devil." Scuttlebutt also overheard Hugh O’Conner telling Woods that, if he won the mock trial, he would confess something to her. Only Courte was told of the correct way to open the envelope.Īfter Juniper Woods' script was chosen to be used in the mock trial instead of hers, Scuttlebutt was furious. In order to prevent other students from sneaking a peek at her script, Scuttlebutt booby-trapped the envelope containing it with a spring-loaded blade that would cut the hand of anyone who opened it normally. When a mock trial was scheduled to be held at the school festival in October 2027, all judge course students were required to write a trial script and submit it to judge course teacher Constance Courte, who would select the best one to be used as the script for the mock trial.
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