Inter-Departmental Interactions
Phoenix Wright was ecstatic.
His first investigation had gone smoothly. He took no joy in putting people behind bars the way some of his compatriots might, but the thrill of finding the real criminal, the one who deserved to end up there, the way some prosecutors preferred to help the detectives with...that was enough to make up for it.
He’d wondered if he wouldn’t be better off as a defense attorney, as they were the ones doing the actual protecting of possible innocents...but he’d come to a conclusion over his years of law school: if a prosecutor did their job right, no false accusations needed to be leveled in the first place. He’d wondered why he’d never thought of it that way before. The pain, the disgrace, the loneliness...they could all be directed at the right person from the start. Little him would never have had to be hurt if his teacher had been a better prosecutor...and so that was precisely what he was going to be.
Besides, he had an old friend to figure out, and working with him in the Prosecutor’s Office would give Phoenix more opportunities to interact with him than would just facing him as a defense attorney.
Thus, Phoenix followed behind the detective with his first defendant, preparing for the first round of interrogations. It wouldn’t be him doing them, of course--that would be the famed interrogator Angel Starr--but his case could easily benefit from the results. He waved to what he thought was Angel, smiling.
