On November 30, 2012, the Tokyo District Court held its first trial of the case of Cheng Xiaoyu who killed four people in a row in the food street on the basement floor of the Courtyard Five-Star Hotel. The case was dubbed www.biquge.info "Ten Days of Hell" by the news media.

Before the opening of this major case of the century, it aroused great concern among people all over the world. Especially in Neon, the front pages of major newspapers are full of analysis of the case.

On November 29, the day before the trial, the Yomiuri Shimbun published a front-page headline by veteran reporter Toru Oda detailing the tactics that the prosecution and defense might use during the trial.

In the article, titled "Cheng Xiaoyu's Trial Strategy: How to Prove the Existence of the 'Ten Days of Hell'", the author writes: The prosecution is expected to portray Mr. Cheng Xiaoyu as a person with a strong will to survive and kill others by any means necessary. They would try to convince the jurors that the successive killings of the defenseless Kawaguchi Moto, Yoshimoto Shin, and Koyama brothers were almost a logical consequence of escalating violence.

In contrast, the defence strategy is expected to rely primarily on the failure to find relevant evidence and, more effectively, the failure to find physical evidence in which eyewitnesses could link him to the crime scene.

The prosecution will explain that Cheng Xiaoyu's side, which is absolutely vulnerable on the surface, is actually not just killing for self-preservation, but revenge, hatred, and bloodlust are the truth of the case.

The defense lawyer will argue that Cheng Xiaoyu was forced to do justice and survive. And when it comes to the most critical issue of DNA testing, the article writes: One of the key points in this case is the difficulty of the police in obtaining evidence.

According to the Neon Evidence Law, evidence in criminal cases can generally be divided into two types: direct evidence and circumstantial evidence. Direct evidence refers to evidence that can prove the facts of a case in a direct rather than inferential way. For example, if a witness testifies in court that he saw the killer kill the victim with a sharp blade, this is direct evidence.

The so-called circumstantial evidence refers to evidence that cannot be proved in a direct way, but must be proved in a reasoned way. For example, if blood or fingerprints are found at the scene of a homicide, this is circumstantial evidence, or circumstantial evidence, physical evidence.

Criminal proceedings are highly evidentiary. To be convicted, at least the following conditions must be met: first, there must be evidence to prove that the crime has been committed.

Second, there is evidence to prove that the facts of the crime were committed by the defendant.

Third, all evidence is found to be true beyond reasonable doubt.

In other words, the confession must be combined with certain physical evidence or other means of proof before the perpetrator of the crime can be punished. Even if people all over the world say that Cheng Xiaoyu killed four people, the neon police will have to find physical evidence or other evidence that is stronger than confession before the verdict can be conclusive.

What is more beneficial to Cheng Xiaoyu and Yoshito Kitagawa is that criminal cases are different from ordinary civil cases, and even if Cheng Xiaoyu has admitted to murder, he cannot be convicted.

Since there must be sufficient evidence in a criminal case to establish the sole certainty between the suspect and the criminal act, it is impossible to achieve such a level of proof by a mere confession.

To put it simply, even if Cheng Xiaoyu killed people in front of countless people, the testimony of these 100 people alone cannot be convicted, and the police must find Cheng Xiaoyu's murder weapon, evidence of Cheng Xiaoyu's presence at the time, Cheng Xiaoyu's bloodstains splashed on his clothes, Cheng Xiaoyu's footprints at the scene, Cheng Xiaoyu's fingerprints and other physical evidence to convict Cheng Xiaoyu.

More than a year has passed since the earthquake, and because of the long time has passed, the negative floor of the Courtyard Hotel has been completely renovated when the neon police began to collect evidence, which is an extremely difficult task for the neon police to collect evidence.

In particular, one of the most critical evidences, the bodies of the four people killed by Cheng Xiaoyu and the bodies of Keiko Tachikawa, who died by Yoshito Kitagawa, were found to be the residue of repeated and long-term incineration by pouring gasoline on them, and even being unrecognizable is an exaggeration.

Although the post-disaster scene records of Neon are quite complete, and the police records include the scene when the body was found, the condition of the body, its location, and the surrounding environment, etc., even if only the part of the body that was burned into bone dregs was found and made a detailed record, it is still not enough evidence.

There is also information on the examination of the body, as well as some photos from the time of discovery, but there are various strange ways to die in the earthquake, and burning to death is only the most common one, and it does not explain anything.

Therefore, whether the police can provide strong evidence is the key point of this lawsuit.

In fact, Su Yuxi wanted to burn a few people to ashes at that time, but she couldn't do it with gasoline, because the burning temperature was not enough, but she also thought about this, because after being burned, these corpses had no way to become evidence, so she didn't do more processing.

Therefore, no matter what newspaper has come to the conclusion, the situation is quite favorable for Cheng Xiaoyu and Kitagawa Yoshito.

The mainstream media in China did not report on this matter excessively, after all, some lines cannot be touched excessively, but there are still many reports on the Internet, Cheng Xiaoyu's "Whisper" topic has always been among the best, and "Whisper" also opened a text live broadcast for this lawsuit.

And Cheng Xiaoyu has become the focus of this planet in a different way, which is a special experience that he has never imagined.

On the day of the trial, several family members of the neon victims came to the scene wearing black clothes with solemn expressions and complaining about black and white photos of several victims, and they made a claim for compensation of about 3 billion yen.

At this moment, the small courtroom was full, and there were many reporters sitting in the auditorium who had been lucky enough to enter the venue, but they were not allowed to bring any photographic equipment, and could only take the form of text, in real time.

Of course, there are some fans and fans who came to support Cheng Xiaoyu, if it weren't for the limited seats in the courtroom and the serious rules, I'm afraid this place would have been crowded with people a long time ago.

In the auditorium, Xia Shamo, Xu Qinning, Wang Ou, Chen Haoran and others, who were dressed normally, were silently praying for Cheng Xiaoyu with their hands folded, and Zhou Peipei also came, but they didn't see Su Yuxi's figure.

Not long after, the judge sat down, wearing a black judge's uniform and meticulously combed white hair, the old judge Murata Kenzo presided over the trial, he was considered to be the choice of favoring the prosecution, because everyone knows that Murata Kenzo has always advocated a tough attitude towards China and the United States, and wants to make Neon a big country in the true sense, such a political attitude is impartial on the surface, but in fact it is biased towards the prosecution.

At this moment, he had a calm expression, so that people couldn't see his thoughts, he sat in the position of the presiding judge, and then he looked up at Cheng Xiaoyu, who had a blank face and a natural expression, and the chief prosecutor Ma Chang who was sitting on the other side with a serious and confident face, announced the official opening of the trial.

(To be continued.) )