Chapter 830: Direct Evidence (Chapter 2, 4300 Words)
The prosecutor in Little Rock was so stunned by He Chuchu that he was almost speechless for a while. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
His lips fluttered rapidly, and his throat emitted a series of meaningless syllables that signaled his anger.
He Zhichu only looked at him calmly, and his peach blossom eyes were cold and mocking.
The assistant next to the prosecutor quietly tugged at his sleeve, and the prosecutor came back to his senses, glared at He Chuchu fiercely, and continued to interrogate the housekeeper.
"Mr. Butler, please tell me about the day the fire broke out at Vanderbilt's house. ”
The butler looked depressed and sorrowful, went to the witness stand, and said bitterly, "That day was no different than any other time, and Mr. Vanderbilt went out to walk his dog after dinner. Then ......" He turned around, pointed to Ye Xuan who was sitting in the dock, gritted his teeth and said: "And then it's this bastard! He has been pestering our husband for several days! At the beginning, he secretly pretended to be a passerby to spy on our husband, and then our husband found out, so he pestered our husband not to know what to do, and after being rejected by the husband, he became angry, set fire to the house, and killed everyone in our husband's family!"
As soon as the butler's words came out, there was an uproar in the courtroom.
The six members of the jury had different expressions, and they all looked thoughtfully at Ye Xuan in the defendant's seat.
The people in the auditorium had already begun to angrily accuse Ye Xuan.
These people are all neighbors who live in the neighborhood of Vanderbilt's house, and they have a good relationship with this family, and seeing their innocent and tragic deaths, including four children, they hate Yexuan even more.
Some people even openly stood up and shouted to him, "Devil, you will have retribution!"
He Chuchu looked back and glanced coldly at the person who was coaxing.
The judge knocked on the gavel with a blank face, "There is no noise in the courtroom, please let out the person who shouted loudly just now." ”
Several bailiffs came over and kicked out the person who had just stood up and called Yegen a "demon".
At this time, everyone was much quieter, and no one talked casually anymore.
The prosecutor calmed the emotional butler for a moment, then walked up to Ye Xuan and asked with a triumphant expression, "Mr. Night, have you ever spied on Mr. Vanderbilt?" ”
Ye Xuan thought for a moment, he had indeed observed Mr. Vanderbilt for a few days before meeting him.
Because he was not sure whether Gu Yanran's words were true or false, of course he had to confirm it first.
But if he answered yes, then he proved that he was "voyeurizing".
Voyeurism and observation are two completely different concepts that can seriously mislead jury members.
Ye Xuan looked at He Chuchu before answering.
He Chuchu didn't have any expression, it seemed that it didn't matter what he answered, there was a calm and leisurely attitude.
This relaxed mood infected Ye Xuan, and he calmly said, "No. ”
"You're lying?!," the prosecutor became even more excited, "not only this Mr. Butler has seen you spying on Mr. Vanderbilt, but others have seen it as well." There are all the witnesses, and you still dare to quibble?!"
Ye Xuan didn't speak, because He Chuchu had already stood up and defended him: "Your Excellency the prosecutor, before you assert that my client lied, please explain the definition of 'voyeurism'. ”
Prosecutor: "......"
"Your Excellency the Public Prosecutor, please answer my question. He Chuchu was not in a hurry, and asked him to answer again.
Even the judge looked at the prosecutor.
The prosecutor thought about it carefully and said intermittently: "Voyeurism is the act of peeking at other people's privacy without their permission. ”
He Chuchu nodded, walked over to the butler, and said, "Mr. Butler, where was he when you saw my client 'peeping' at Vanderbilt?"
“…… On the street. The butler replied blankly, "Many people have seen it." They can testify. ”
He gestured to his neighborhood members who were sitting in the auditorium.
Everyone nodded their heads, indicating that the housekeeper was right.
He Chuchu's face was solemn, and his cold gaze swept over the faces of everyone in the court, and some people couldn't help but lower their heads, and after looking away, they looked back at the housekeeper and said, "It was day or night. ”
"Daytime, oh, evening should I say. "I had just watched the cook clean up the kitchen and come out to take Mr. Vanderbilt home. ”
"So, your husband exposed his privacy on the street in the evening?" He Chuchu pulled the corners of his mouth, "May I ask what privacy he exposed?"
"Oppose! The defendant's lawyer slandered the reputation of the deceased!" the prosecutor immediately stood up and pointed at He Chuchu to denounce him, "...... Lawyer He is so famous, he actually asks such a question! I can't imagine that you are such a lawyer He!"
He Chuchu stood quietly above the courtroom, his posture was straight, Xiao Xiao Susu, and the prosecutor next to him with a shiny face was like a clown jumping off the beam.
He waited for him to finish before he retorted: "Your Excellency the prosecutor has just said that the legal definition of 'voyeurism' is the act of peeking at other people's privacy without their permission. And my client saw the deceased Mr. Vanderbilt on the street during the day, how can my client peek into the privacy of another person walking on the street in this case? ”
The prosecutor was dazed by He Chuchu's series of question marks, and after a while, he realized that he had beaten himself up!
He Chuchu wrapped him in at the beginning.
It's treacherous to ask him to explain what "voyeurism" is and then beat him with the definition he himself gave!
The prosecutor glared at He Chuchu angrily, clenched his fists, and said calmly: "Without the permission of others, peeking at others is voyeurism!"
"Wrong. He Chuchu shook his finger, "In law, you must peek at other people's privacy to call it voyeurism." Since both were on the street at the time and the deceased did not engage in any private acts, the prosecution and Mr. Steward's allegation that my client 'peeped' Mr. Vanderbilt was not established. ”
The judge nodded and struck the gavel, "Prosecutors and witnesses, be careful with your words. ”
The prosecutor's first move was resolved by He Chuchu.
Angry, he continued to ask the cook, "May I ask what you were doing that day?"
The cook is not like a housekeeper, she has been in the kitchen, or in her staff dormitory, she has never seen Ye Xuan at all, but after hearing Mr. Housekeeper mention it a few times, she honestly said, "I'm cooking." After tidying up the kitchen and the dining room, Mr. Butler came back with the dog first, and said that Mr. Vanderbilt had seen the man who had been following him again, and the two were talking and arguing. ”
"You look here, is the man who quarreled with Mr. Vanderbilt here?" the prosecutor told the cook to look for the man in the courtroom.
The cook's gaze stayed curiously on Ye Xuan's face for a while, and finally took it back and said, "I haven't seen that person, nor have I heard that person's voice, but I have only heard Mr. Butler mention that there is such a person, so I can't identify anyone." ”
The cook refused to identify Yexuan, and the members of the jury immediately looked at each other.
The prosecutor's face darkened, and he questioned his neighbors in the same neighborhood.
Some of these people have seen Yexuan and remember him, because they think he is very handsome......
But what they saw was no different from what Mr. Butler said, that is, they saw Yexuan and Mr. Vanderbilt on the street who seemed to have argued, but they didn't know what they were arguing about.
The last witness to be questioned was Mr. Sheriff of the Little Rock Police Department.
He was calmer and more fierce than any other witness.
When the prosecutor saw him, he was overjoyed.
"Mr. Sheriff, may I ask you that in the early hours of October 29 you arrested a Barbadian man suspected of arson and murder, and he was not in court?"
The sheriff glared at Ye Xuan fiercely, and said angrily, "Yes, he is in this courtroom, it is him." As he spoke, he pointed to Yexuan.
Ye Xuan lowered his eyes and looked at the desktop in front of him, not looking at the sheriff at all.
"Why did you arrest him?"
"Because he is suspected of arson and murder of Mr. Vanderbilt's family!
Two of the jurors were almost brainwashed by his words and began to favor Yegen's guilt.
He Chuchu raised his hand, "Objection, Mr. Sheriff's words are only subjective assumptions, without any human or physical evidence, arrest my client, and detain him for more than 72 hours without reason, we reserve the right to claim compensation from the Little Rock Police and Mr. Sheriff." ”
"What are you talking about?!Claim?!" The sheriff was furious, leaned out of the witness stand, and roared angrily: "You are questioning my professional ability?! I have been a sheriff for thirty years, and I have not been questioned!"
"There is a first time for everything, Mr. Sheriff, and you have to get used to being questioned in the future. He Chuchu spread his hands, his eyes swept over the faces of everyone in the courtroom, and finally landed on the face of the sheriff, "Mr. Sheriff, please tell me why you think Ye Xuan is the first suspect?"
"Quite simply, he had an argument with Mr. Vanderbilt, and after the quarrel, he disappeared for four hours, and in those four hours, Mr. Vanderbilt's family was brutally murdered and set on fire, and this heinous crime was committed by this man!" The sheriff's words echoed again inside and outside the courtroom, and everyone couldn't help but listen.
One by one, they looked at Ye Xuan with scrutiny.
Ye Xuan still lowered his eyes and sat up straight in the dock.
After the sheriff finished speaking, the prosecutor stood up and read out the charges against Ye Xuan with vigour.
“…… Yegen, a Barbadian national, is accused of setting fire to his home in Vanderbilt, Utah, on October 28 and murdering a family of 12. Judges and jurors are invited to give appropriate sentences to the seriousness of the case. ”
The prosecutor simply makes the charges, and the defendant's lawyer cross-examines the witnesses and examines the evidence to refute the prosecution's allegations.
It was also because of the urgency of time, there was no time to explain the key points to Smith, and he was worried that Smith would not be able to adapt and mess up the interrogation, so He Chuchu chose to defend himself in court.
He unhurriedly got up from the dock, walked to the center of the courtroom first, and bowed slightly to everyone in a graceful manner.
Almost everyone in the courtroom had a crush on him as soon as they saw him, except for the sheriff who frowned at him.
He Chuchu did not see the sheriff's gaze, but walked straight up to the prosecutor and said fluently in standard Oxford English: "Your Excellency, what are the direct witnesses and evidence for your accusations? I have not seen you mention direct witnesses and evidence at all. ”
"The direct witness is Mr. Butler, and the evidence is the scene of the fire. What questions do you have?" the prosecutor sneered, disapproving of He Chuchu.
He Chuchu calmly walked up to him, caressed his chin with one hand, supported the other elbow with the other, and said thoughtfully: "It turns out that in the eyes of His Excellency the prosecutor, the person he saw four hours before the murder can also be called direct evidence. It's no wonder that in your more than 30 years as a prosecutor, you have won 10% of your lawsuits and lost 90% of your cases. ”
"You're spewing blood!" The prosecutor didn't expect He Chuchu to know about his work performance ratio, and suddenly became angry, "You invaded my privacy! I'm going to sue you!"
"Your Excellency the Public Prosecutor, as a public official, your work performance is not personal privacy, and taxpayers have the right to know the actual contents. He Chuchu's voice cooled down, and he turned his head to look at the sheriff with an excited face, "And Mr. Sheriff, your use of subjective assumptions instead of objective evidence to arrest people is a serious abuse of the power of public trust." ”
When the prosecutor heard that He Chuchu had brought this matter to the issue of the police's abuse of public power, he chuckled in his heart and secretly screamed that it was not good......
Sure enough, the faces of the jury members immediately changed, including the three men who were originally disdainful of Ye Xuan, and they all began to think about the question of the police's abuse of public power raised by He Chuchu.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the murder of Mr. Vanderbilt is a very complex case. But the case that my client was involved in was very simple. In short, he just inadvertently appeared in the wrong place, so that he was used and framed, and this sheriff, instead of arresting the real murderer, only arrested my client on hearsay, without any direct human or physical evidence, and refused bail for a time. If this is all right, then where is the dignity of the law, and where is the personal rights of citizens?!"
He Chuchu's clear voice landed soundly, and every word was like a hammer, smashing on the hearts of everyone in the court.
The sheriff was sweating profusely by He Chuchu's words, and hurriedly stood up to defend: "I have not abused my public power!
"What evidence? A butler saw my client talking to Mr. Vanderbilt on the street in the evening? This is also called direct evidence? That is to reason this way, Mr. Butler is more suspicious, for he and Mr. Vanderbilt have said an unknown number of things, and I suppose there have been arguments. What's more, Mr. Vanderbilt's family was killed, but Mr. Butler and the cook were unharmed. - If you reason so, you two are also suspicious!"
He Chuchu's finger pointed at Mr. Vanderbilt's butler and cook, and the two were frightened and shouted in unison: "No! We didn't do it! You have no evidence!"
"You now know that I have no evidence? Mr. Butler, then you keep saying that it is my client who killed people and set fires, where is your direct evidence? I remember that you said in the police station that you didn't see who did it, because you were asleep at that time. ”
He Chuchu squinted, his chin raised slightly, and looked indifferently at Mr. Butler, who was sweating profusely, "According to Mr. Sheriff's logical reasoning, you have no one to confirm that you were sleeping at the time, so you are also suspicious, and the suspicion is even greater." Because statistics show that 99% of this kind of family murder is committed by insiders. ”
The housekeeper looked at He Chuchu dumbfounded, and didn't understand how he suddenly changed from an important witness to an important suspect? !
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