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ACE ATTORNEY SCRAPBOOK
Chapter 15: Courtroom Manners
Case Tag: Pre-5-1 (Turnabout Countdown)
Quote:
Athena:
Mr. Wright? Can I go and give that prosecutor a smack?!
Phoenix:
What?! No! Do we need to review Courtroom Manners 101 again?!
December 16, 5:50pm
Wright and Co. Law Offices
It was the night before his new associate, Athena Cykes, would be making her courtroom debut, so Phoenix Wright thought it would be best to do a bit of review before sending her off into the sometimes scary and intimidating legal world. It wasn't that he thought she wasn't capable of taking care of herself; oh no, on the contrary, he wanted to ensure that she didn't, to put it nicely, overdo it. Athena was very headstrong and fiery, just like her appropriately colored hair would suggest. While those would be helpful traits in producing a spirited defense, Phoenix had an inkling that, if the prosecutor pushed her buttons the wrong way, that spirit might just storm across the courtroom and backhand the prosecutor across the face.
"Okay, Athena," Phoenix glanced over at the girl, who was sitting on the couch in the main entrance of the office.
He paused, glancing over his shoulder at Apollo, who was watering Charley the plant.
"Hey, Apollo, care to join us?" Phoenix asked. "Since you're the lead defense in tomorrow's trial, it probably wouldn't hurt to review your stuff, right?"
Apollo Justice considered this fact for a moment.
"Good point, Mr. Wright!" he said in his typical enthusiastic manner. "I'll be right over."
After tossing the watering can in the sink in the bathroom, Apollo joined Athena on the couch. Her fists clenched tightly, she looked at Phoenix with intensity.
"All right, Mr. Wright! Let's do this!" she declared.
Phoenix gave his junior attorneys a nod of acknowledgment. He headed over to the desk and scooped up the book he had placed on top of it earlier in the afternoon.
"Courtroom Manners 101," Phoenix began, flipping open to the first page of the book. "All right, Apollo, Athena, what are some things that you should not do to the opposing prosecutor?"
"Uh, smack him in the face?" Athena blurted out.
Phoenix closed his eyes briefly and let out a sigh. That technically wasn't wrong, that just wasn't the answer that he was looking for.
"Yes, that's a good start," he replied.
"How about insulting the prosecution, Mr. Wright?" Apollo declared. "Mr. Gavin calls me Herr Forehead all the time and I want to call him something back but I don't because it's bad manners to insult the prosecution and-"
Phoenix sighed again. He knew this was going to be a long study session. A very long one.