This is on top of the fact that Phoenix has powerful friends in the legal world, who could've helped sway things in his direction as well. Which would've looked pretty good in his assessment, showing a determination to actually support Trucy even after having just lost his job he loved so much. Even before he actually legally went and adopted Trucy, he had already begun to set up the Wright Talent Agency, and begun to push to make an income as a pianist, to provide her a livelihood. That along with the fact that he didn't have no income. Plus Phoenix does have experience with looking after a child after their birth parents went away (Pearl, whom he took care of alongside Maya after her mother got arrested), which would've swayed the assessment at least somewhat in his favor. That enthusiasm from her probably helped. Trucy was actively positive to have him as her father.How was Phoenix allowed to adopt Trucy? He had just lost his job (no income), and was proven to be an Amoral Attorney (bad role model).And for that matter, in Magnifi's crime scene photo, his gunshot wound is completely clean of gunpowder burn, which makes no sense in itself. With that instance it can be argued that gunpowder burn or other such proof wouldn't really be proof of anything since Zak or Valant may have just done it executions style anyway, but it's a little odd it isn't brought up, as it would've made for some pretty good 'confirmation evidence' (aka when it's revealed it's suicide, the fact he was shot execution style is brought up as making much more sense now). With Magnifi's 'murder', he turned out to have shot himself in the forehead, with the barrel probably pressed against his forehead. Why does gunpowder burn (or, in general, the idea of averaging how far someone was shot from) seem to be distinctly absent throughout this game, despite it being present in previous games? In Turnabout Corner Alita shot Meraktis from quite close range while inside the stand, whereas Wocky was standing quite a ways from him, so an examination of the wound should've been enough to show that Wocky didn't do it.

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