Catherine didn't give him more time to think about it, but looked down at the file in front of the table: "Xiao Peng, male, from Huaxia, when the police raided last night, he was found to be carrying more than half a dozen beers in the car, and he didn't stop them, one of the bottles was still open, is this true?"

Xiao Peng nodded: "Yes, ma'am, but the bottle that was opened was an empty bottle。。。。。。 ”

In other words, this Stars and Stripes country is actually an extremely conservative country, everything here is its own standard, no matter what weights and measures are used, they use their standards, buy oil on 'gallons', distance is counted as 'miles', six bottles of beer are six bottles of beer, I have to say half a dozen.

Catherine directly interrupted Xiao Peng's words: "No matter what empty bottle it is, it is an illegal act to not cover up the beer, so you must be punished." ”

Xiao Peng smiled and said, "Then I don't know what kind of punishment I will face?"

Catherine looked at the file in front of her and thought about it for a moment: "In this way, considering that you are a Chinese, your illegal behavior like this can sound the alarm for your compatriots." So that your fellow citizens do not make the same mistakes, so I will increase your sentence by a fine of two thousand dollars, plus a month of weekend community work. As for the place of your labor, it's in this Hood community. ”

"How much?" Xiao Peng was dumbfounded: "Judge Catherine, according to the law, the maximum fine in such a situation is two hundred US dollars, right?

When Catherine heard this, she knocked the table a few times with a small hammer: "Silence! Mr. Xiao, please stay quiet, otherwise I will add one more charge to you! Disrupt the order of the court! The result of the verdict is like this, do you accept it or choose to appeal?"

Xiao Peng was about to choose to appeal, but the public defender, who had been sitting without speaking, spoke: "This is a good verdict, and my client accepts it." ”

"Accept your fart!" Xiao Peng smiled angrily: "I choose to appeal!"

Catherine said, "Your public defender has already said yes! What are you doing? Are you planning to challenge the judicial system of our Stars and Stripes? If you say anything more, I will send you to prison for disturbing the order of the court to calm down for a while!"

When Xiao Peng heard this, he frowned and stared at Catherine fiercely, and finally raised his hand and pointed at the public defender next to him: "Judge Catherine, I have a question I want to ask, I give this public defender 1,400 US dollars, shouldn't he help me defend me?

The public defender next to him smiled slightly: "I just helped you make the right choice." ”

Xiao Peng sighed: "In this case, I accept your verdict, but I express my attitude, I will sue in another case to express my dissatisfaction with this matter!"

"That's your right. Catherine said lightly: "The two kinds of people I hate the most, one is racist people, and the other is you Chinese, who have seized the job opportunities of many people in our community, not to mention, there are a lot of things, and you won't do anything else except take advantage of people all day long!"

"Hey, Ms. Catherine, it's racist for you to say that!" Xiao Peng said dissatisfiedly.

Catherine shrugged: "I'm expressing my attitude, I have the right to speak freely!"

Xiao Peng nodded: "Oh, so that's the case, any entrepreneur likes hard-working and capable employees rather than employees who invest money and play tricks, is it because of your own reasons that those of you can't find a job?"

Catherine's eyes snapped, "What do you mean?

Xiao Peng smiled: "Hey, I'm expressing my attitude, I have the right to speak freely!" Xiao Peng directly repeated what Catherine had just said. "Lady Catherine, may I go?"

"You can't go!" Catherine roared, "bailiff, he's disturbing the courtroom now!

The bailiff sitting on the side stood up after hearing this, took out the handcuffs and walked towards Xiao Peng, preparing to buckle Xiao Peng directly. At this time, Hugh Norman, who had been sitting in the back, stood up: "I'm sorry, ma'am, you don't have this right now. ”

Catherine was stunned: "Who are you?"

Hugh Norman said: "I am Mr. Xiao's lawyer, and I have reported your performance just now to Mr. Chris Kelly, the California Attorney General, and the Judicial Councilor Chen Huiming and Justice Liu Hongwei of the California Judicial Council. After speaking, he showed his mobile phone in front of Judge Catherine, and the people on the mobile phone screen were a white man and two Chinese faces: "Now how Mr. Xiao's matter will be judged is one thing, but first of all, you are in big trouble!"

Catherine didn't know Hugh Norman, but he knew a few of the people on the phone screen. Needless to say, Chris Kelly, who was the chief privacy officer of Facebook, and later became the California attorney general, in fact, he served in the Clindou government during the Clindou era. It can be regarded as a rich political experience.

Liu Hongwei and Chen Huiming, on the other hand, are both of Chinese descent, and both are justices of the California Judicial Council, well, if you talk about the Stars and Stripes in other places, there is still a lot of racial discrimination. But in California, that's not the case.

Because English is the official language in California, there are not as many people as Latin speakers here. In California, there are probably not as many whites as Latinos.

Of course, this number is not an official number. Instead, a large number of Latinos smuggled into the Stars and Stripes will choose to stay in California. According to unofficial statistics, one-third of Hispanics in California are smuggled。。。。。。

The same is true for Chinese Americans, who are far more numerous in California than African-Americans. African-Americans may be able to cross in other cities, but in California, you really have to be careful. Hispanics are also very good, and the number of African-Americans here is really not enough to compete with others.

And the power of Asians in California is also extremely strong. One San Francisco, one Los Angeles, how big is the number of Chinese there? The mayor of San Francisco and the like are all Chinese. Including the justices and chief justices of the California courts, they are all Chinese, like Chen Huiming, who is a judicial member of the California Judicial Commission and the chief justice of the California Superior Court. In front of the eyes of these people, such a scandal has happened, can they hang it on their faces?

Catherine looked at Xiao Peng with a shocked expression, what kind of person is this? How could he directly contact these big names in the California judicial circle? Didn't Rally say that this person is just a little money, it's not a big deal? This seems to have provoked a lot of people!

Chris Kelly on the phone smiled apologetically at Xiao Peng: "Mr. Xiao, I'm sorry, it's our work mistake that something like this happened." ”

Xiao Peng smiled: "This is not your business, everyone is responsible for their own actions, just like me, although I am from Huaxia, but I have arrived in your Stars and Stripes Country, and I must abide by the laws of your Stars and Stripes Country." If I hadn't put a few beers in the car, would I have them have caught us here? Of course, I'm extremely unhappy with the verdict. I admit that I don't care about this money, but no one wants to be wronged, and if I am asked to pay more than ten times the compensation without the right reason, I will be asked to do social labor for a longer time. This is unacceptable to me. ”

Chris Kelly thought for a while and said, "Mr. Xiao, you're right. Judge Liu, according to your verdict, how should this matter be decided?"

Liu Hongwei thought for a while and replied: "Actually, what Ms. Catherine just said is quite correct, many Chinese people who are not familiar with the laws of the Stars and Stripes often violate our laws inexplicably because they do not understand the laws of the Stars and Stripes, and Mr. Xiao's incident can indeed serve as a warning. ”

Hearing this, Xiao Peng frowned, what does this Nima mean? Ready to trap me? Liu Hongwei continued: "But after all, I am also of Chinese descent, and according to my understanding of our nation, for Chinese people, fines are the most effective way. So there is no need for such a thing as community service. A fine of $200. But Mr. Xiao, please note that this ticket must be dealt with in a timely manner. Because if the ticket is not processed on time, it will not only affect the purchase of car insurance and the renewal of the driver's license, but also as time spreads, the degree of punishment will gradually increase, the fine will be doubled, etc., if you do not deal with it in time, the court will sue you for contempt of court, and finally will directly issue an arrest warrant and leave a case record. ”

Xiao Peng smiled: "Thank you, Judge Liu." "This is clearly helping Xiao Peng speak, $200 is indeed the maximum limit of such a fine. But for Xiao Peng, the money is not a thing. You don't have to do community service, which is a lot easier.

"No, no, no, it's our responsibility to apologize for making you feel so unhappy. ”

Xiao Peng smiled and waved his hand: "It's me who should say I'm sorry, you have to worry about a little person like me." ”

"Mr. Xiao, you are polite, you are still a small person? The dispute between you and the Philip family in the past two days may not be known to others, but as practitioners in the judicial industry, how can we not know? Mr. Xiao, you don't know, when Mr. Patrick contacted us and told us about the matter, we felt ashamed that such a person appeared in our California judicial system. Chris smiled and said, Xiao Peng wanted to like this official play.

However, Xiao Peng did not break it, but said with a smile: "What I appreciate most about your Stars and Stripes is that you like to talk about the legal system everywhere, which is great, I like this kind of country that stresses the legal system, and under the promotion of you legal workers, the whole country has truly achieved equality before the law." ”

Chris and the other three were in a good mood when they heard it, as the so-called thousands of clothes don't wear sycophants, Xiao Peng said this, and the three of them must be in a good mood after listening to it.

However, after listening to Xiao Peng's next sentence, the good mood of the three people was gone. I saw that Xiao Peng thought for a while, and then said to the three people on the mobile phone screen: "It just so happens that I'm idle, so let's just do it, you see this situation." How about we make this bigger? Why don't I just take the money and take this group of people to court?"

When everyone heard this, they scolded Xiao Peng in their hearts. This Nima, you are idle and idle, but this is a big fuss, this is a slap in the face of the entire California justice system, from the police department to the public defense system to the grassroots courts. This is a collective embarrassment! This matter is going to make a big fuss, and the little face of the entire California judicial system is being slapped by someone!