Chapter 23 Protected Witnesses
After breakfast, An Jiujiu took a taxi directly to the Chao'an District People's Court.
After getting out of the car, I saw that Tang Yi was already waiting for her at the gate of the court.
"It's been on time," he nodded at her, "let's go." ”
The bailiff who was in charge of picking them up obviously knew Tang Yi, and said to Tang Yi while leading them inside: "Old Tang, didn't I say you, you take all kinds of cases, don't you think about the reputation of your law firm?"
Tang Yi didn't answer this, but asked, "Wang Peng didn't change his confession, right?"
The bailiff shook his head: "No, his mouth is very tight, and no matter how many times he asks, it will be the same thing." ”
"That's good. Tang Yi smiled: "Since he feels wronged, I will help him redress his grievances, if he suddenly changes his confession, he doesn't need me as a lawyer." ”
The bailiff shook his head, obviously disagreeing with Tang Yi's words, but he didn't argue with him.
After all, even if he has ten mouths, he can't argue with a lawyer who eats by eloquence.
Soon, An Jiujiu and Tang Yi arrived at the interrogation room, only to see a man with slightly white temples and a decadent expression, sitting inside waiting for them.
An Jiujiu couldn't help but be surprised, and asked Tang Yi in a low voice: "This is Wang Peng?"
"Otherwise?" Tang Yi asked amusedly.
Android couldn't help but be speechless, the information said that Wang Peng was only 42 years old, and the man in front of him looked almost 60 years old, and he didn't know if he was already old, or if these days of prison life made him like this.
Getting back to the point, after Wang Peng saw Tang Yi, his dim eyes finally had a little luster, and his expression was a little excited.
"Lawyer Tang, please help me, I really didn't kill anyone......"
"I know," Tang Yi walked up to Wang Peng and sat down, his expression solemn and serious, "but the problem is that now all the evidence points to you, if you can't find new evidence to overturn the procuratorate's previous conclusions, then I can't help you get rid of your guilt." ”
Wang Peng scratched his head with a painful expression: "But I really can't think of any evidence." ”
"Evidence is never thought out, it's found. Tang Yi said: "I'll ask you a few questions now, you'd better answer me truthfully, otherwise I won't be able to help you even if I am eloquent." ”
Wang Peng hurriedly nodded: "You said, I will answer absolutely truthfully." ”
Tang Yi was about to speak, when he suddenly noticed that An Jiujiu was still standing, and couldn't help frowning: "What are you still standing for?" Come and take notes. ”
"Ah, okay. ”
An Jiujiu immediately came back to his senses, sat down next to him, turned on the computer and quickly took notes.
"On the night of the crime, did you go to Shen Jian's house?"
As soon as Tang Yi opened his mouth, he went straight to the point, but Wang Peng's expression was a little hesitant: "I ......"
"As I said, if you don't answer my questions truthfully, then I can't help you at all. "Tang Yi cut the railway.
When Wang Peng heard this, his expression was dazed, and finally he spit out the truth in a tangled way: "I've been there." ”
Tang Yi didn't blink his eyes: "What are you going to do?"
Wang Peng's face was slightly red, and his speech was also slurred: "I, I'm going to get the money." ”
"Take the money?" Tang Yi narrowed his eyes, his eyes were sharp: "Shen Jian owes you money?"
"Not ......"
Wang Peng blushed and scratched his head, and it took a long time before he stumbled and told the truth about the night.
He did go to steal Shen Jian's money that night, but he insisted that he was taking it instead of stealing it, because he took the money because he lost to Shen Jian by playing cards during the day.
Although Wang Peng is a carpenter, he has good craftsmanship and is diligent, so his family background is not bad, and his popularity in the township is also very good. It happened that there was a family in the township that day to hold a wedding banquet, and he was dragged to drink a lot of wine at the wedding banquet, and he wanted to go home to sleep in the afternoon, but he was dragged by Shen Jian to play cards.
His card skills were not good, and he was even more ignorant when he was drunk, and he lost thousands in a few hours, and when he got home, he was scolded by his wife, and he woke up in a daze, and he should have been Shen Jiankeng.
This Shen Jian's evaluation in the township has never been very good, he is lazy to do not say, and he especially likes to play cards, especially like to play cards with drunks.
He usually doesn't dare to do too much, at most he wins a few hundred yuan, even if those who lost money wake up later, they are embarrassed to come back, and they will hide away from him in the future.
And this time Wang Peng will follow his way, purely because he drank too much, and he was pouted and couldn't wipe off his face, thinking that even if he lost a few hundred yuan, it would not be a big deal, but if he thought that a loss would be thousands.
It just so happened that he had just bought a suite for his child in the city, and he didn't have much money on hand, and he had to pay a salary in advance the next day, so he really had no choice but to go to Shen Jian, wanting Shen Jian to pay him back a little money, even if it was half of it.
Unexpectedly, Shen Jian turned him away directly, refused to return him, and said that if he mentioned this matter again, he would tell the whole village that Wang Peng could not afford to lose.
Wang Peng, who returned empty-handed, couldn't sleep that night, thinking of losing and taking a few thousand yuan, he was angry and regretful, and finally came up with the idea of going to Shen Jian's house in the middle of the night to secretly "take" the money back, but when Shen Jian's house was rummaging through the cabinet, he woke up Shen Jian, who was sleeping next door, and Wang Peng knocked Wang Peng unconscious in a hurry......
"What did you use to knock Wang Peng unconscious?"
Wang Peng was stunned: "It seems to be an axe." ”
Tang Yi frowned: "Where did the axe come from?"
"Shen Jian put it in the cabinet himself," Wang Peng recalled: "At that time, I happened to be rummaging through the cabinet in his living room, there was nothing valuable in it, but some tools, and it happened that he came out of the bedroom, so I subconsciously took an axe and hid behind the cabinet, and watched him get closer and closer, and knocked him unconscious." ”
Tang Yi narrowed his eyes: "How do you know that you just knocked him unconscious? That's an axe, and if you don't pay attention to it, you may die." ”
Wang Peng smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I've been doing carpentry for so many years, isn't this a little serious?" And after he fainted, I also probed his breathing, and I was sure that he just fainted at that time, not even a serious injury." ”
This can also be said, Tang Yi no longer dwelled on this question: "And then?"
Then I put the axe back in the cupboard, found the money, and left. ”
Tang Yi thought thoughtfully: "When you left, you left from the main gate?"
Wang Peng nodded.
"Why do you go in through the window and go through the front door when you leave?"
Wang Peng said: "Shen Jian lives on the second floor, I don't have the key to his house, I can only go in through the window, but if I jump out of the window on the second floor, ......" He smiled bitterly: "I'm not a professional thief, who knows if I will accidentally fall and fall somewhere?"
"Then you're not worried about being seen walking through the front door?"
"Everyone was asleep at that time, no one should see it, right?" Wang Peng was actually a little weak when he said this, because he knew that the most important evidence why he was sentenced in the first instance was that someone witnessed him leave Shen Jian's house.
But for some reason, the eyewitness did not appear in court at the beginning of the trial, and what made him feel even more strange was that the judge refused to disclose the person's information, and said that it was to protect the witness.