I figured I should get back to this, so...

Okay, we left off right as we were about to start cross-examining Ema and "The Prosecution's Rebuttal."

So there's supposedly no way Gloomsbury could have been killed before the reception, because the autopsy report says he died after it and there's no way it could possibly be wrong.

Um, shoot. Was the fog machine filled with dry ice used to stow the body and change the apparent time of death?

Oh hey, I'm right!

Hey, don't start calling Ellen guilty yet! Mr. Butler Dude also entered the hold that evening!

Or he was busy escorting guests. Welp.

"Think me cocky all you'd like, Mr. Wright, but my confidence is rarely misplaced." You know, aside from all those times we've proven you wrong before.

Edgeworth: Ah, seeing you panic like this just makes all my stress and woes melt away.
Nick: The defense calls Larry Butz to the stand!
Edgeworth: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF--

Athena: /pops in just long enough to nope right on back out. RUN AWAYYYYYYYY!

"-Nick Is A Jerk Face!-" Pffffft

Larry pls

Okay, so Larry says he got locked in a cabin, broke out, and then moved the lantern from the hold to the reception hall...

So was the switch before or after the reception itself?

Larry: It was both! Wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey stuff through the power of Elly's pendant!

Nick: why

Larry: The power of love~ <3

Nick: whyyyyyyyyy

Nick: Time travel. Because logic.

Edgeworth: yeah no

And now secret photo! Because Larry.

With two different colored bouquets. That... seems like a pretty obvious blunder.

Right now, I'm theorizing that the Sprockets were gaslighting Elly by staging two different receptions and acting like the first never happened.

Sorin went along with it because he's so lost in his own world that he didn't even notice.

Nichody: /slow clap

Okay, so Nichody's claiming that the two receptions were held, but only to try to convince Ellen that her killing Gloomsbury was just a bad dream. And that it was all Sorin's idea.

Well of course Nick can't travel back in time to redo the trial. He doesn't have Elly's magic pendant, silly!

And with that, we move on to the second day of investigations!