Doug sat in the first row of the audience, on the left side near the defendant's seat.

In front of him was the back of the little shoe-shiner. At the side of the little shoe-shiner stood McGill.

In the plaintiff's bench across from them, Smith's wife was standing, and beside her, there was a lawyer who was sorting out the papers.

The judge on the stage looked left and right, made sure that no one was absent, announced the opening of the trial, and described the case.

On the evening of September 14, 1985, Goofy followed his employer, Doug Claydon, to the Smith Printing and Dyeing Factory.

Doug bought the Smith printing and dyeing factory, and Smith, who had just left the factory and received a large amount of cash, was blocked by creditors at the door. All the money on his body was robbed.

After the creditor leaves, Smith takes out a knife and threatens Doug to get him more money.

When Doug refuses, Smith stabs Doug with a knife, and Goofy shoots Smith to protect his employer.

Ms. Alwin, Smith's wife, accused Goofy of premeditating the murder of her husband, do the plaintiffs and defendants disagree?"

"Judge!

McGill said, standing up.

"From what you have just described, the deceased, Mr. Smith, had a strong intent to attack and was about to cause harm to the defendant's employer, and the plaintiff shot him to death.

I believe that the defendant had reasonable grounds to believe that this was an unlawful threat and that he was under no obligation to retreat or avoid first.

Therefore, I consider my accuser not guilty. ”

"Judge, I don't agree with the plaintiff's lawyer!"

The lawyer next to Smith's widow also stood up, a tall and athletic man in a crisp suit and a dark red tie, who looked more like a professional lawyer than McGill.

He looked at the judge, then at the jury.

He said loudly, "Your Excellency, according to the information I have gathered. Although Goofy and his employer, Doug Claydon, had no intention of being the first to attack. However, the creditors who put Mr. Smith in an embarrassing situation were all found by Doug Claydon.

Your Excellency, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, look at this emaciated woman beside me. She is the wife of Mr. Smith, a wife who waits for her husband to move to a new city with the money from the sale of his property.

Look at the child in the audience, he is so young, but he has lost his father.

Aren't Goofy and his employer's actions ruining what should have been a beautiful family?

Mr. Smith, thinking that the funds to live in the new city were robbed by creditors, and the mastermind behind the scenes was Doug behind Goofy. Can he not be angry?

Although Mr. Smith angrily pulled out his knife, I have reason to believe that Mr. Smith did not have the intention of attacking Goofy and his employer.

He just thought of his wife and children, and wanted to vent the anger in his heart.

The judge showed that this information was the transcript of the debt collectors I went to collect on the day of my visit, and you can check it out. You can summon any of them by lottery to confirm the authenticity of the transcript.

I'm done. ”

The lawyer for the plaintiff Smith's wife, instead of completely searching for laws and precedents from the codes and old papers, played an emotional card.

Let everyone present, especially the jury members, sympathize with the plaintiff.

At this time in the middle of the nineteenth century, the New England region of the eastern United States could not be said to be inadequate with the rule of law.

However, no matter how high the degree of rule of law is, the law of the sea system inherited from the United Kingdom is still the rule of man in the final analysis.

It is good to have precedents and laws, but the final outcome depends on the judgment of the jury and the judge present.

Judges may know the law, but juries are not, and they value emotions more.

And the lawyer of Smith's wife, the core of today seems to be playing the emotional card.

After listening to the plaintiff's lawyer's account, the judge turned his gaze to the defendant's dock.

McGill stood up again and said, "The plaintiff is indeed very emaciated, and it is indeed pitiful that the plaintiff's young child has lost his father at such a young age.

But!

Your honor!

Gentlemen and ladies of the jury!

Is it just Mr. Smith's family that is pitiful? The creditors who are owed by Smith are not only creditors, but also families.

These families may have been happy in the first place, but because of Mr. Smith's non-payment of debts, they are also in crisis.

My defender's employer, who had told Mr. Smith's creditors out of the desire to give more families a better life.

This act saved several families that would have gone bankrupt, judges, gentlemen and ladies of the jury, don't you think?

I'm done. ”

Although McGill's main focus is on patent law, his skills in defending people in court are not bad.

Move with affection, know with reason.

Emotional card, legal card.

McGill has one left hand and one right hand, and the other lawyers are skillful, and he is not bad.

On the jury bench, the jurors dressed differently, different professions, different genders, and different classes had different expressions on their faces.

Among them, the jurors who were the owners of the small factories and the small shops, may have just sympathized with Smith's wife and children. However, when McGill finished speaking, they immediately felt the emotion of not paying the debt.

If Smith sells the factory and leaves New Haven by boat and never returns, where will the creditors go to ask for debts?

As a result, they began to approve of the defendant's employer's act of notifying the deceased creditor.

The other jurors were not as sensitive to the issue.

However, they can still carry the weight of one family and several families.

As a result, they began to lean towards McGill's words.

Gilbert, who was in the back row, yawned as he watched the speeches on the stage take turns.

He thought it was boring.

Why are you bored?

Because...... Whatever is discussed now will prove useless.

He glanced at Doug in the first row, he already had hard evidence to pull this hypocritical little tramp into the water.

"Your Excellency!"

Smith's wife's lawyer spoke.

"I have obtained valid evidence that the defendant Goofy did not shoot at all! Before I do, though, I'm going to make my inferences.

In my opinion, it was not Goofy who was supposed to be a shoe-shiner the other day who shot him, but Goofy's employer, Doug Claydon!

I am now applying to have Doug Claydon included in the list of defendants!

Your honor!

Justice will not trap any innocent person, nor will it allow any criminal person to escape justice!

Your Excellency, please include Doug Claydon as a defendant!"