#he could also maybe have a pet eel for eelektross

[madd-nix]

For the ace attorney au:

After a long argument and lots of evidence both twins break down in a lie- they've been giving each other's pets too many treats / they stole each other's food. They're so very sorry and ashamed. The judge is nearly in tears he's so done with this job.

Lol, so they're not hiding any information because of the crime, but because they were ashamed to admit to each other and to the court that they were giving each other's pets extra snackies! Poor Phoenix would be banging his head on the desk! (Or Apollo or Athena. Either way, that'd be one hell of a disappointing testimony.) And in the end, they're both like, "Okay, now that we've confessed to our snack crimes, we saw [very vital piece of information to the case]."