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Criminal Affairs Department
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Police Station
Organization info
Organization type Public service
Leader Chief
Organizational structure Commissioners & police chiefs - see Police department
Affiliated groups Police department
Prosecutor's office
Established Unknown (1869 in the real Los Angeles)
Status Active
Location info
People to meet Damon Gant
Jake Marshall
Dick Gumshoe
Chief
Miles Edgeworth
Franziska von Karma
Will Powers
An unnamed police officer
Linked locations Wright & Co. Law Offices
Hotel Lobby
Police department entrance
Chief's office
Records Room
Gourd Lake Entrance

The Criminal Affairs Department is a public service that forms part of the Los Angeles law enforcement. It primarily consists of detectives. Its jurisdiction is over Los Angeles as well as the surrounding mountains. It has its headquarters across the street from the police department headquarters. It also contains the former office of Damon Gant.

Divisions[]

Criminal affairs consists of at least three divisions. Division one is the homicide division where detectives such as Dick Gumshoe and Ema Skye work. Division three is the international division, which has ties with Interpol. One of the divisions is the General Affairs division, where Mike Meekins worked.

Miles Edgeworth's trial[]

Main article: Turnabout Goodbyes

On Christmas Day in 2016, Miles Edgeworth was arrested for the murder of Robert Hammond. Detective Dick Gumshoe, who had worked alongside Edgeworth for years, realized that the police department was not very interested in looking into the murder too much. Moreover, nobody was willing to take on Edgeworth's defense. Gumshoe ran into Phoenix Wright and Maya Fey at Gourd Lake and brought them up to speed on the situation. Gumshoe begged Wright to take Edgeworth's case, but was informed that Wright had been refused. Their conversation was interrupted when Gumshoe had to go to the Criminal Affairs Department for a briefing, and he told them to go find him there to talk more later.

The police had a primary witness set up for the trial, the old caretaker of the boat rental shop near the lake. However, Lotta Hart later came in to report that she had seen the crime as well. Her noise-activated camera had activated twice, taking a photo of an empty lake and a photo of two men in a boat, one pointing a gun at the other, and Hart had made an enlarged version of the latter photo. Gumshoe interviewed the caretaker and, unable to get a straight answer out of him, replaced him with Hart.

Losing hope, Gumshoe began to slowly fill in the papers for a public defender. Wright met Gumshoe at the precinct afterward and was updated on the events. Later, Wright convinced Edgeworth to hire him as his attorney, and returned to the precinct with the news. Although he was overjoyed with hearing the news, Gumshoe went to the detention center to check up on Edgeworth due to an earthquake that had just passed through the area.

In court the next day, prosecutor Manfred von Karma tried to prevent the existence of the enlarged photo due to it revealing the fact that Edgeworth had not fired the gun that night, but Wright and Fey managed to make Hart show the photo, which raised enough questions to eventually adjourn the trial for the day. The police all regrouped at Criminal Affairs later that day and discussed Edgeworth's motive. Hammond had been the defense attorney for Yanni Yogi, the lone suspect in the DL-6 Incident, the murder of Gregory Edgeworth, and this was theorized as the reason for the murder. Meanwhile, Gumshoe was approached by Wright and Fey in their attempts to find information on Gourdy, explaining that it was in "exchange" for information from Hart. Gumshoe volunteered his assistance through the police department's "secret weapons": the cute, bright eyed K-9 training police dog Missile, Gumshoe's old worn and tattered fishing pole, and a metal detector.

Wright took the metal detector to the boat rental shop and discovered Gourdy's true form: an air tank that had fallen into the lake after a mishap. Hart was disappointed but stayed true to her word and revealed to Wright that the boat shop caretaker was the original witness. Wright interviewed him at his shack but, like Gumshoe, could not get a straight answer out of him. When they were about to leave, Fey asked whether they had forgotten something, and Polly, the caretaker's parrot, answered, "Don't forget DL-6!"

The pair confronted Gumshoe at the precinct with what they had just heard. Wright asked Gumshoe for access to the files from the DL-6 Incident. Gumshoe explained that Edgeworth had expressly forbidden him from looking it up, but since there seemed to be a connection to Edgeworth's current predicament, the detective opened up the Records Room to the two. The two retrieved some of the DL-6 case files in preparation for the trial.

After the next day’s trial, during which Wright argued the boat shop caretaker was the killer, Wright revisited Criminal Affairs in hopes of gathering some DL-6 evidence from the Records Room. The Chief told him that he and Fey could go inside as Manfred von Karma was already there. The two showed von Karma the Letter from the Safe, which instructed Yanni Yogi on how to murder Hammond, as it had been confirmed by Marvin Grossberg that the handwriting on the letter was very similar to von Karma's. As a response, von Karma tasered them and took the letter and all of the DL-6 evidence, except a bullet that Fey managed to hang on to. This bullet proved to be crucial evidence when Edgeworth was tried for the DL-6 Incident.

Lana Skye's trial[]

Main article: Rise from the Ashes

On the February after Edgeworth's trial, Prosecutor Lana Skye was arrested on suspicion of murdering Detective Bruce Goodman, and Wright took on her case at the behest of her sister Ema. After the first day of Lana's trial, Chief of Police Damon Gant spoke with the Head Detective about thoroughly searching Goodman's desk for clues. However, nothing turned up, aside from an unfinished missing item report.

While they were finishing their discussion, Wright and Ema arrived and spoke with Gant. The latter told them about an inquiry committee that was investigating Edgeworth; there had been no end of trouble for the prosecutor's office since his trial. He also remarked on Goodman being supposedly murdered at two different locations though he would not divulge any information about the evidence for this. Gant then granted Wright premisson to investigate the evidence room, even letting them borrow a card to get in. Inside, Wright found evidence that pointed to Jake Marshall as a person of interest.

In court the following day, there were shocking revelations of falsified evidence in the SL-9 Incident, a case worked by Gant, Lana, Goodman, and Jake's brother Neil, who ended up as the incident's last victim. After court was adjourned, Wright and Ema arrived again to find only the Head Detective, as everyone else was in the conference room. They asked to look around in Gant's office. The Head Detective told them where to go, but realized too late that it was off limits to them. However, Gant was there, and they briefly discussed a photo of the SL-9 Incident investigative team before he kicked them out and left.

Meanwhile, Gumshoe was concerned for Edgeworth, who was under fire due to the earlier revelations about the falsified evidence. He managed to get a coffee break and used the opportunity to examine the file on SL-9. He ran into Wright and Ema as they were returning to Criminal Affairs, and told them what he had learned about the two-year-old case. Wright then asked Gumshoe if he could allow them access to Gant's office, which he denied due to the potential of him getting fired for doing so.

Wright and Ema then left to find a way to convince Gumshoe to help them. Gumshoe stayed in the department office, printing out 150 copies of the SL-9 files, and was still there when Wright and Ema returned with the resignation letter that Edgeworth had been writing. Realizing that things were getting dire for Edgeworth, Gumshoe finally agreed to the proposal and gave them his ID to use. Unfortunately for them, Gant caught them snooping around and promptly fired Gumshoe, but they nonetheless found useful evidence to use in the final trial day.

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