Chapter XII: Trials

The trial begins!

The prosecution prosecutor had the perfect evidence, but the defense lawyer defended himself unconventionally, making a bold assumption that Matsumoto had conspired with someone to kill Inoue and set up a false accusation.

The defense lawyer began by raising several contradictions.

First, Matsumoto's wife insisted, and it was Matsumoto who talked about the beach where Inoue had saved him, and asked if he and Inoue could regain their friendship by drinking there.

Second, Matsumoto and Inoue reconciled? How to reconcile? Inoue did not tell anyone else about Matsumoto's wife, one possibility is that Matsumoto believed Inoue's words and apologized for his previous words. One possibility, Matsumoto didn't believe Inoue's words and asked Inoue to apologize to his wife. How could it become a situation where two people were drinking and talking?

The third point, and the most suspicious place, is that Takayama Law Firm monopolized all the death sentences in Dongtang last year. When the defense lawyer said this, Cao Yun smiled apologetically at Gao Shan Xing on the hearing seat. Matsumoto claimed that he was the defense lawyer his wife had found for him. Matsumoto's wife said that it was Matsumoto who asked her to go to Takayama Law Firm for help. This is also the biggest reason for detonating Cao Yun's suspicions.

The defense lawyer believes that after Matsumoto's layout, it cannot be said, but can only be guided, so various details are designed so that the lawyer who defends himself can doubt the case and pursue credibility.

From the current evidence, both assumptions make sense. It may be a Matsumoto layout case, or it may be a case of Matsumoto's wife planting stolen money. However, both the evidence and the prosecution prosecutor favor Matsumoto's wife and lover as the murderer.

At this time, the defense lawyer began to explain that neither the Matsumoto layout case nor the Matsumoto wife's planting case could be done by ordinary people. The prosecutor agrees with this, and at the same time hopes that the defense lawyer will present evidence and not speculate and inference with empty words.

The defense lawyer first explained logically, assuming that it was a false accusation case, how could the car be photographed by the means of Matsumoto's wife's lover who committed the crime, and at least the number plate would be obscured. Why did they have a tryst on the day of the crime? They didn't even intend to create some time witnesses.

The prosecutor argues that logical evidence is not evidence, and he himself will not accept such logical reasoning. He reminded the defense lawyer again that this is a courtroom, a place for evidence, not speculation.

The judge agreed, reminding that the defense lawyer insisted that Matsumoto had committed the crime with someone, who was a professional suspect, and that if the defense lawyer could confirm his existence, the court would send the case back to the Metropolitan Police Department for a new investigation.

The defense lawyer looked at Cao Yun who was sitting in the defense seat, Cao Yun nodded lightly, and the defense lawyer finally presented the first piece of evidence, ten days before the incident, Matsumoto had found a lawyer who cooperated with his company to evaluate the division of property after the divorce, and explained that his wife had an internal affair. The lawyer's answer was not encouraging. First of all, an internal affair requires evidence, such as a written guarantee, such as police records, such as evidence taken at the scene. Second, even if there is evidence, it will not affect the division of the marital property, and Matsumoto can claim compensation for the wife's moral damages, but judging from the divorce cases heard in recent years, unless it is domestic violence and bigamy, the court generally does not support moral compensation. Even if it is supported, the amount is not large, at most tens of thousands of yuan.

This subverted Matsumoto's long-standing thinking, he thought that the law would protect his innocent party, how could the law support the division of common property between the at-fault party and the innocent party in equal proportion?

The good news for Matsumoto is that the court will take care of the innocent party when deciding. But this is to take care of, not to change the distribution of property. For example, if you have a million in cash and 500,000 per person, you can't take care of it. Able to take care of, for example, the custody of the child, because the moral environment of the party at fault must be taken into account.

Matsumoto was in a hurry at the time, and according to his concept, the party at fault should leave the house. The lawyer explained that this is the case morally, but not legally, and that people who leave the house are more likely to do so because of guilt or other reasons. The division of joint property between husband and wife is clearly stipulated in the law, and there is no law that the party at fault who leads to the failure of the marriage must take less property.

The defense lawyer asked Matsumoto, "Do you admit the authenticity of this evidence?"

After thinking for a long time, Matsumoto said helplessly: "Admit it." He had only one question, why his lawyer would betray him, but it was obviously pointless to ask that question at this point.

The defense lawyer turned to the jury and the judge and said, "In other words, Matsumoto already knew that Inoue was right, so there are a lot of problems." What is the reason why Matsumoto and Inoue drank at the beach? Mr. Matsumoto, can you answer this question to me?"

Matsumoto replied, "We're deliberating on what to do with this." ”

The defense lawyer then asked: "Why didn't you explain this during the police investigation of the case, during the court hearing?"

Matsumoto replied, "Because I think it's a shame to do this, and my friend can prove that I'm a very face-saving person, so I didn't explain it to the court." For this, he apologized to the court. Matsumoto bowed to the judge and the jury.

"There's no hurry. The defense lawyer asked Matsumoto not to apologize in a hurry and asked Matsumoto: "Mr. Matsumoto, did Mr. Inoue laugh at you because of this incident? And is it because of Inoue's joke that the two of them have conflicts and contradictions?"

Faced with this question, Matsumoto was a little flustered, and subconsciously glanced at the hearing seat, and then replied: "I don't know, I have a headache, I can't remember clearly, I am a witness, not a defendant." ”

The defense lawyer explained: "I'm proving that you're committing perjury. ”

Matsumoto said vaguely: "Maybe I'm hiding something because of the face problem, but I think it's harmless." ”

The defense lawyer smiled and asked: "What did Inoue say that made you turn your face, did you suggest that you play together, or did you think your wife could learn new postures?"

Matsumoto was angry on the spot: "Step on Mom." ”

The bailiff immediately stepped forward to intercept Matsumoto, who had rushed out of the witness stand.

The judge warned Matsumoto and the defense lawyer, warned Matsumoto not to disrupt the order of the courtroom, and warned the defense lawyer not to provoke.

The defense lawyer's purpose has been reached, smiling at it.

The trial ended here, and the judge believed that there were still many doubts in the case, and decided to send it back to the Metropolitan Police Department for re-investigation. It is quite rare for a case to be remanded twice for re-investigation. Not the Metropolitan Police Department, even the judges smelled something strange. The defense lawyer has a sentence that the judge is very much in favor of, whether it is planting false accusations or laying out the case, its means of committing the crime are very clever, and it is definitely not something that ordinary people can do.

The Metropolitan Police Department attached great importance to this case and transferred the case to the strongest criminal investigation team in Dongtang: the No. 1 Search Division of Dongtang. However, it will take less than half a minute to fully overturn the evidence and conclusions and reopen the investigation. But for lawyers, it doesn't matter who the murderer is and who is innocent, and their job is to defend, not to find the real culprit. From a work point of view, at least Cao Yun's work has ended.