The court system, overburdened by the massive number of crimes being committed, introduces a radical new method for settling cases more quickly: the bench trial system. Both prosecution and defense face each other in open court and have three days t...
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October 19, 2016, 9:42 AM
District Court
Defendant Lobby No. 1
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Will: ... ... Umm... Mr. Wright?
Phoenix: Yes?
Will: Why do you look so... unhappy?
Phoenix: O-oh! Oh, nothing! Eh heh heh. Really, it's nothing. Right, Mia? (Uh oh. She looks even unhappier...)
Mia: Phoenix. Your client is now practically a dead man walking... Perhaps that's why I feel particularly close to him.
Phoenix: This is no time for dead-people jokes, please.
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Mia: Yet, if Mr. Powers is truly innocent... We should be able to find something overlooked in the evidence to prove it.
Phoenix: Something "overlooked"...?
Mia: We have to find something, Phoenix, today. It's that, or lose the trial.
Phoenix: (This isn't going to be easy.)
(Y/N): Then we'll find something. All we have right now is the empty medicine bottle of sleeping pills, but I don't think that alone is enough to stall for another day.
Phoenix: Right, the ones that were used to drug Mr. Powers.
Mia: Presumably.
Phoenix: Presumably.
(Y/N): Yeah... It's not looking pretty, but it's all we got right now.
Phoenix: Speaking of which... Mr. Powers.
Will: Y-yes?
Phoenix: Is there anything you can tell us about these sleeping pills? They're not actually yours, are they? You're not secretly an insomniac, are you?
Will: W-what? No! They're not mine. I don't know whose those are.
(Y/N): Did you taste anything funny when you were eating lunch?
