The ins and outs of the case are clear, except that the jury argues in the conference room whether to convict Peter of first-degree or second-degree murder.

Citi's homicide crimes, collectively known as murder, are divided into first-degree murder and second-degree murder.

Whoever commits murder in the first degree shall be sentenced to death or life imprisonment. First-degree murder includes premeditated murder, negligence resulting in the death of multiple persons, and homicide in the course of committing other felonies such as arson, rape, robbery, night robbery, and kidnapping.

Whoever commits second-degree murder shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 20 years or life imprisonment. The crime of second-degree murder includes homicide in all circumstances other than first-degree murder, such as the perpetrator did not have premeditated murder but had the intention to kill on the impromptu basis, or the intention to kill was presumed but did not succeed, and the intention to seriously injure the other party resulted in death.

Citi is a place where miracles happen, though.

Citi implements the law of the sea and uses past cases as an important basis for defense and judgment, so every lawyer can find all kinds of strange precedents as the theoretical basis for his defense, even if the murderer is acquitted in court.

Ten years ago, for example, a father was in front of the courthouse and shot and killed the bastard who had tortured his daughter — the murderer had just been released on bail — and the father was acquitted in court.

Therefore, the sentencing scheme for first-degree murder and second-degree murder cannot cover 100% of all murder cases.

At Citi, a good lawyer can use various means to get people out of the cracks of the legal net in the impossible.

Joban Barrister, who defended Peter Jerry Meyer, is one of the most famous of such good lawyers.

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Half an hour later, Black Judge Tru walked out of the conference room and called the court open with the following verdict for Peter Jeremiah:

"Neither the prosecution nor the defense objected to the course of Peter Jeremiah's crime, and after jury discussion, the court ruled as follows:

Peter Jeremiah impulsively shot Professor Rhodes due to a conflict of beliefs, and after the jury discussion, the murder was not premeditated murder, and Peter Jeremiah was found guilty of second-degree murder.

Considering Peter Jeremiah's good character and great contributions to Citi society, the court found that Peter Jeremiah's sentence of 20 years' imprisonment with a suspended sentence was an appropriate sentencing option.

The family of the victim, Professor Rhodes, was in financial difficulties because of the murder of Professor Rhodes, and the court held that Peter Jeremiah should bear the corresponding financial responsibility.

Starting next month, Peter Jeremiah will be required to provide 50 percent of his monthly income to the bank account of Rhodes' wife, which will be automatically transferred to the designated bank account until the young daughter of Rhodes reaches the age of 18 and can live independently.

During this period, Peter Jeremiah was not allowed to leave the territory of Citi.

Peter Jeremiah shall serve his sentence in prison from the date when his young daughter reaches the age of eighteen, and the sentence of Peter Jeremiah shall be reduced depending on the fulfillment of the financial responsibility for Professor Rhodes' family.

If the prosecution and defense disagree with this judgment, they shall file a lawsuit with the higher court within 30 days. ”

Judge Tru announced the verdict.

This is a standard and muddy verdict, the result of the synthesis of all jurors' opinions.

However, this mud is not bad, and both supporters of Peter Jeremiah and the wife of Professor Rhodes are somewhat dissatisfied with the verdict (which is considered too heavy on the one hand, and too light on the other), but at least it can be grudgingly accepted.

When asked by the court, Peter Jeremiah said in court that he had made such a big mistake that he was no longer worthy of continuing his studies at Haval.

Although the court ruled that he only needed to transfer 50% of his income to the Rhodes family account, Peter Jerrymiah's 50% income as a student was definitely not enough to maintain the original standard of living of the Rhodes family.

So he decided to drop out of school and find a regular job, hoping to do his best to provide a good living environment for Professor Rhodes' family – at least no worse than when he was alive.

To tell the truth, Peter Jeremiah said these words in public in the courtroom, although some people felt that there was an element of performance, but this young man said it so plainly, as if he was telling a proper obligation, and there was no impassioned expression at all.

When these words are combined with the past experience of Peter Jeremiah provided by barrister Joban, the collective signed petition in support of Peter Jeremiah, and the crowd of petitioners outside the courtroom, even those who oppose such a lenient sentence in the court, they have to admit that the words that come out of the young man's mouth have a power to believe.

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It is a spacious and bright basement.

In many people's minds, basements are often associated with dim, cold, damp and other words, but for the wealthy, their basements are not like this, basements can still be luxurious beyond imagination.

White clouds roam quietly overhead, rivers flow gently around you, and several custom-made armchairs of ergonomic masterpieces are placed on the verdant lawn.

Modern 3D projection technology has long been widely used, and it is not uncommon to create a simulated natural environment underground.

However, here, except for the blue sky and white clouds overhead and the rolling mountains in the distance, which are created by three-dimensional projections, other things such as lawns, sunlight and streams are all genuine.

The sunlight shining on these people is the natural sunlight that is directly introduced into the ground through the sunlight harvesting equipment on the ground through a fiber optic line, and is not a simulated sunlight generated by a solar simulator.

In such a luxurious place, of course, the people in it are also rich and powerful.

It's just that the six bigwigs present don't have very good faces. They also had their shadows behind this trial, but the outcome of the trial was contrary to their efforts.

"This time we lost again. ”

"It's normal to lose, and of the twenty-four members of the grand jury this time, nine are members of the Desire Sect, twelve are members of the Desire Sect, and the remaining three are neutral.

And Judge Tru is black — more than 95 percent black people are Desire sect supporters, so why do you think you can win?"

"Yes, that old fellow of Joban never defended himself uncertainly, and since he agreed to appear in court, he must have known something. ”

"Did our men warn the old fellow?"

"No, our guy died before he even got to the lawyer's office, he was hit by a car. ”

Nothing is gratuitous, and as the lord of desire, it is impossible for this little thing to alarm him.

However, although it did not alarm Yanagi Yuanhe's direct family, the Desire Sect alone was already Citi's premier behemoth.

When the upper echelons of the Desire cult paid attention to the Peter Jeremiah school shooting, it didn't even need to be said by the Desire cult to make a concrete statement, and there were countless politicians vying for votes, organizations hoping to gain the favor of the Desire cult, civilians who were suffering from the kindness of the Desire cult, and schools that feared the pressure of the Desire cult — yes, Harvard University, even if they were the world's top-ranked universities, and now they did not dare to brush the tiger whiskers of the Desire cult — to take action.

(The armed forces of the Cult of Desire are called the liberators; the security forces are called the guilty; and the missionaries are called the conservators.)

The liberator means to liberate everyone from the pressures of society, the guilty means to bear the sin of killing, and the conservator means to protect everyone who contributes to civilization. Peter Jeremiah belongs to the Conservationist sequence. ）

Of course, the Desire Sect is not unworthy of putting pressure on Rhodes' family, but whoever wants to exert influence on the victims' families and make them have undeserved thoughts will be severely cracked down on by the culprits of the Desire Sect.

These bigwigs want to take this opportunity to wrestle with the Desire Sect and test the influence of the Desire Sect in Citi, but they can neither start from the victim's family, nor can they manipulate the selected jurors as in the past, and can only influence public opinion, so the power they can use is very limited.

In the past five years, the culprits of the Desire Sect have never been afraid of anyone!

Whoever dares to stretch out his hand will chop off his hand! If he is caught, he will simply confess his guilt, and it does not matter if he dies with his target.

The dead of other people's bigwigs are counted individually, while the fanatical believers of the Desire Sect are willing to die for the sect on the basis of the company. That's the horror of religion!

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"We have to do something, and if we don't react now, maybe we won't have a chance in the future. ”

It was an old man with gray hair and a gloomy face who spoke.

"We don't have a chance. Another person reluctantly said: "Since Joseph Trendi came to power to reshuffle the government, we have already lost." ”

"Citi didn't have one or two presidents who died, and we had to make some efforts. ”

"Maybe, but in the past few years, Citi has not lost one or two rich people. Didn't we dare to discuss something after hiding here?"

"Stell, that bastard!" said the former president, Stell.

"What's the use of saying that now? You didn't show up at the time, but everyone who came forward was warned by that person, and no one in this world wants to die. ”

What he said was that Stal and a group of bigwigs wanted to control the Desire Ranch, but the twelve legends made a move, scaring Stell's and his gang back.

"So what now, we've watched the Ranch of Desire grow step by step over the years, and now they've turned their guns on us, are we going to wait for death?"

The people who meet here today are all real bigwigs that Citi can count, such as Caleb, a business giant who has risen by relying on new technology, and he can't reach this circle.

In fact, in Citi, it is these people who really hold the power, their tentacles are all over every corner of Citi, and many times, they don't even need to speak, and naturally someone will solve the problem for them.

But now, they are hiding underground like rats, and they have to be careful to speak.

"Ranch of Desire is unstoppable, and when we controlled the lifeblood of the economy, those politicians were no different from dogs, but now, I'm afraid they are the ones who want to dig us out the most. It is basically impossible to defeat Desire Ranch through legal means through the government. ”

"Do you want to be tough? Think too much, now the Desire Sect has fully infiltrated the military and police system, and we can't move the army, and we can't keep it secret. ”

"Who said that if you are tough, you need to mobilize the police and the army?"

"So what do you want to do? mercenaries, killers, or our guys? Can they deal with Ranch of Desire? No kidding. ”

Although some books boast of mercenaries and killers as godlike, how capable they are in this world, if the mercenaries and those killers were really so terrible, they would have been bought, co-opted, and even eliminated by the government, where would they be left wild?

To put it bluntly, these people are just doing some dirty work, the six bigwigs here, each of them has their own private soldiers and even dead soldiers, but of course these people have no problem killing people on weekdays, and even starting a local war abroad, but to deal with a behemoth like Desire Ranch in Citi soil, it is pure nonsense - just think about how many people live in Desire Ranch, it is enough to make anyone feel hopeless.

At Citigroup, no matter how powerful the force is, it cannot be worth the 100 million people working together! That is the real power of the whole country, and it is by no means comparable to any amount of money.

Don't look at the fact that everyone is rich and rich at every turn, but in the face of real state-level power, pure money is not power at all! At the state's order, all bank accounts will be frozen, and all transactions will be carried out under state surveillance, which is an absolutely devastating blow to these six bigwigs in the financial industry.

In the past, they could manipulate the government and influence all aspects of the government, but that was without the intervention of forces of the same level or even higher level.

Only the collective can contend with the collective, and only the state can contend with the state, and this kind of confrontation is a competition of comprehensive strength, and it is by no means just something that money can control -- what can be bought is money that is recognized by others; if it is not recognized, it cannot buy something, and that thing is waste paper.

What's more, until now, no one knows what the identities of the twelve legends lurking in the Ranch of Desire.

"Of course our people can't, but there's one person who can!"

"Cut, who are you talking about?"

"Sword Saint of the East - Yanagi Motowa!"

"If he hasn't made a move in the past few years, have you forgotten him?

This person is indifferent, but he takes his family very seriously. And he once said that when the time is ripe, he will come to Citi to challenge the Lord of Desire, if we can say that he can go all out, it may not be impossible to kill the Lord of Desire!"

A big guy seems to have grasped a life-saving straw.

"I've also seen that video back then, and no matter how you look at it, the lord of desire has the upper hand. Not to mention that the Sword Saint of the East may not be willing to go all out, even if he is willing to fight hard, he is not necessarily the opponent of the Lord of Desire. ”

"The Sword Saint of the East once survived the scene of the hydrogen bomb explosion, and once cut down the satellite, I don't believe that the Lord of Desire can be his opponent?"

"By the way, speaking of surviving the scene of the hydrogen bomb explosion, there is another god, if she makes a move, she may not be worse than the East Sword Saint, and how similar is the behavior of the desire ranch to the previous Holy Bishop? ”

"This is also a method, but I think that when it comes to combat power, I am afraid that the gods are not as good as the Sword Saint of the East. ”

"It's best to find a way to provoke the Sword Saint of the East to make a move, no matter who he and the Lord of Desire die, it will be a good thing for us, but the God represents the bloodline of our nobles, and it is best not to have an accident. ”

"Even if the Sword Saint of the East makes a move, he and the Lord of Desire may not fight to the point of life and death. ”

"Didn't I say that? The Sword Saint of the East has a great deal of importance for his family, if we can make his family that he thinks the Lord of Desire is hurt—"

"It's hard, there's a lot of people staring. ”

"No matter how difficult it is, we can't sit idly by! The Desire Sect is now clearly trying to turn Citi into a religious state, and if it continues to develop like this, there is no place for us people at all. ”

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