Court-Records: An Ace Attorney Fansite

Robert Hammond was the victim in the main case in Turnabout Goodbyes. Fifteen years prior to his death, Robert was a defense attorney at Grossberg Law Offices. He took Yanni Yogi, a court bailiff accused of murdering Gregory Edgeworth, as a client. While Yogi insisted he was innocent, Robert disbelieved him, instead successfully arguing to the court that Yogi had killed Edgeworth in a temporary fit of insanity. While Yogi was acquitted on those grounds, his reputation was ruined; he lost his job and his fiancée committed suicide. According to Robert’s former boss, Marvin Grossberg, this was typical behavior for him; he only trusted his own skill as a lawyer and sought only to win his cases rather than uncover the truth.

Robert kept a lower profile after what came to be called the DL-6 Incident, leaving Grossberg Law Offices at some point after Mia Fey joined. A few days before the fifteenth anniversary of Edgeworth’s death, Yogi—at the anonymous direction of Manfred von Karma, Edgeworth’s actual killer—wrote to Robert and lured him to his shack at Gourd Lake. There, Yogi murdered Robert and framed Miles Edgeworth for the crime. Phoenix Wright defended the younger Edgeworth in court and both exposed Yogi as Robert’s killer and exposed Manfred von Karma as Gregory Edgeworth’s killer.