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The girl that picked up my phone is with a policeman! [...] If I do anything suspicious, he might run a check on my phone...

Dustin Prince was a police officer at the police department who was killed on his own birthday while at Exposé Park with fellow police officer Maggey Byrde.

Fraternizing in the force[]

Prince initially met Byrde at a training camp for cops and hit it off. According to Winston Payne, they became well-known in the police force as a couple for about six months before his 30th birthday, and there were even claims of marriage talks, though according to Byrde, they "weren't 'lovers' like that."

Death[]

Main article: The Lost Turnabout
Byrd and Prince

A final date.

On his 30th birthday, right after his shift, Prince went with Byrde to Exposé Park, near the police headquarters. Byrde gave him a yellow baseball glove to thank him for covering one of her night shifts. During the date, Byrde found a cell phone. The owner, Richard Wellington, soon called the phone, and Byrde and Wellington agreed to meet at 6 p.m. for him to retrieve his phone.

However, Wellington saw that Byrde was with a police officer, Prince, who was still in uniform. Wellington had connections to con artists, and he panicked, thinking that Prince had seen the numbers of con artists on his phone. Wellington pushed Prince off a ledge, breaking his neck and killing him.

Dead Dustin 2

A false message.

Wellington took Prince's right hand and wrote Byrde's name with it, unwittingly misspelling it as "Maggie". Byrde was put on trial for the murder, and Wellington was set up as a witness. Byrde's lawyer, Phoenix Wright, found contradictions in the way the crime scene had been set up. The message was written with his right hand; Prince was left-handed. In addition, Byrde's first name was spelled "Maggey". Wellington was eventually called to the stand, and then Wright was able to indict him as the real killer.

Personality[]

Not much is known about Prince's personality. The only things that are really known about him were his love of baseball, his left-handedness, and that he really liked the color yellow.

Name[]

  • Japanese - Mamoru Machio (町尾守):
    • His name, "Machio Mamoru" (町尾守), is based on the phrase "machi wo mamoru" meaning "protect the town". This likely a reference to his profession as a police officer.
  • English - Dustin Prince:
    • His full name is a play on "dusting [for finger]prints". It could also be a reference to the fact that sand was found underneath his fingernails.

Unofficial[]

  • Brazilian Portuguese - Edir Gitau:
    • "Edir" comes from Arabic and means "prince".
    • "Gitau" is a semi-common surname.
    • Both together make a pun on the word digital (digital), from impressão digital (fingerprint), just like done in the US version.

Notes[]

  • Dustin Prince was the first character in the Ace Attorney games to have a known birth date, due to the fact that he was actually murdered on his birthday.
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