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*** The first case's victim, Shadi Smith, is a bit of a complicated case, as his real identity (and the motive of his murderer) isn't clear until the very end. However, even before that it's made known that he was trying to rig a game of cards against the defendant, and when the plan failed he [[Grievous Bottley Harm|clocked his co-conspirator over the head with a bottle of grape juice]].

*** The victim of the second case, Pal Meraktis, not only dealt with the criminal underworld and covered up a botched operation on Wocky, but he tried to kill Alita Tiala. He failed quite miserably, and she shot him instead.

*** The third case initially appears to play this straight; [[Significant Anagram|Oliver Deacon]]/Colin Devorae is thought to have been an escaped felon who betrayed his accomplices in Lance Amano's kidnapping for the money, but it turns out that Lance threatened his daughter's safety to force him to falsely kidnap him, and that his previous "crimes" were [[Taking the Heat]] for Ernest Amano.

*** One of the victims of the fifth case, Manny Coachen, was a man who was heavily involved in an international smuggling ring and counterfeiting operation that almost destroyed another country's economy, and had gotten away with at least one murder in his lifetime.

*** The victim in the second case {{spoiler|is actually the ''culprit'' from the first case--although later revelations make his death rather tragic in retrospect}}.

*** In the third case, the victim {{spoiler|was an infamously greedy sculptor apparently [[Only in It For the Money]], who forced his own son to kidnap the son of his former partner so that he could have an easier time betraying and blackmailing him, which... did not go as he had planned. The killer himself ''also'' became a victim in the case, albeit nonfatally.}}