Angel Starr is a boxed lunch vendor who was previously a police detective known as the "Cough-Up Queen", in reference to her ability to get people to "cough-up" information. She was fired after the events of the SL-9 Incident. Two years later, she was called as a witness in the murder of a fellow detective who had been involved in the SL-9 Incident but had kept his job. Starr has a strong hostility towards prosecutors, especially Lana Skye and Miles Edgeworth.