Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Courtroom Defense
Wang Fan nodded and said, "Don't worry, I won't be so tasteless, I just think that Cora, a foreign girl, has a bit of a surname, I appreciate it more, and I really have a bit of a pursuit."
Ju An glanced at Wang Fan: "You are a slut, you don't like it if you are good, you are worried about you if you are more powerful, it makes it like a poor aunt's novel, I feel pain when I read it."
After breakfast, the two of them watched TV for a while, Henry brought a young white man over, introduced it and found out that it was Henry's assistant, Ju An took out his mobile phone and handed it to Henry, Henry put it in a bag, sealed it, and then explained to the two people about going to court, and left.
The two of them didn't go out to play today, waiting for the court, they really didn't have any interest in going out, so they stayed in the hotel to surf the Internet and play games, and Wang Fan also continued to hold his big pineapple for three generations.
Finally waited for the day of the trial, Ju An and Wang Fan got up early, washed up, changed into suits, got into Henry's car, and came to the New York courtroom.
When he entered the courtroom, Ju An found that it was different from what he saw on TV, the space was very small, and there were not a few rows of auditoriums at the back, only a high judge's seat, two rows of wooden tables facing the judge, and the other was the jury seat.
Henry took Ju An and Wang Fan to do it in front of the wooden table on his right hand, and then Henry said to the two of them: "When the control asks you questions, you look at me first, if I nod your head you are answering, if I don't nod my head is protesting, the judge asks you to answer you are answering, basically that's it."
Ju An looked around and said to Henry: "Why are there so few people, I think that every trial of the case is like a lot of people on TV."
Henry explained with a smile: "Our small case has no influence, basically no media attention, and will not be arranged to be tried in court."
Ju An nodded, and then looked around, the wood-colored wall skirt that was more than one person high, the top and the ceiling were snow-white, and the entire courtroom was two colors, dark maroon and white, giving people a more solemn feeling.
After waiting for a few minutes, a few men in suits and ties came in, and then they watched Henry shake hands with them, and then came back and said to Juan, "The prosecution is here." Ju An thought about it, maybe it was equivalent to our domestic procuratorate.
After a while, the judge arrived, and everyone stood up and waited for an old black judge in his fifties to arrive. Waiting for the judge to sit down, he announced: "The Brooklynk Elementary Court in New York, the trial of Ju'an Wang Fan's crime of indecency is now in session, and the prosecution is invited to state the charges."
Then he watched a white man in a suit stand up from the long wooden table: "We accused Mr. Ju An and Mr. Wang Fan of trading their surnames on the night of X, X, X, and were caught red-handed by our policemen in makeup, and we have the recording evidence recorded by Officer Cora, as well as the evidence of fifty dollars that Mr. Wang Fan handed over to Officer Cora." We believe that these two gentlemen have indeed violated the law." After that, he sat down.
The judge asked, "What does the defense lawyer have to say?"
Henry stood up and said: "Both of my clients are innocent, and both of my clients are well educated, and no one will believe that my two clients would make such a thing, Mr. Judge, this is a slander against my two clients."
The judge looked at the empty space and said, "The prosecution presents evidence."
Then the man in the white suit got up again and said to the judge, "Your Excellency, I beg that my witness, Officer Corah, appear in court."
The judge nodded, and then Ju An saw yesterday's street blocking girl, today's police uniform, this look, Ju An found that Wang Fan really has some vision, blonde hair, big blue eyes, healthy wheat skin, the figure is not the kind of sickly thinness of urban girls, a blue police uniform adds a bit of sassy taste, the face is a bit like Blay Lively, although the face looks a little old, but it has a different style.
Cora, the policewoman, stood on the witness stand, took the oath, and sat down.
The white man for the prosecution asked, "Please tell me what happened before the judges, Mr. Judges, and the jury."
Then he heard Officer Cora tell the story, and Ju An listened to it, and felt that this woman did not add fuel to the fire, and it was basically true.
The prosecution man followed, "Then please point out the man who drove the car and the man who gave you fifty dollars." Then Cora stretched out her finger and pointed at Ju An and Wang Fan.
At the judge's suggestion, Henry walked over to the witness stand and asked, "This is the first time Officer Cora has done this kind of work."
The prosecution immediately stood up and shouted: "I object, Mr. Judge, this has nothing to do with this case".
The judge asked, "Defense, please give reasons".
Who knew that Henry immediately said, sorry. Then he asked, "So how did you communicate with the buyers, is it like the accent in the tape just now?"
"Yes," Cora said.
Henry asked, "Then you know?" Where did this Mr. Wang Fan who you were talking to come from?"
Cora replied, "I'm visiting New York from China."
Henry looked at Cora and smiled and said, "Then what do you think of the English of my two clients?"
"It's all good, and I speak it fluently"
Henry turned around and said, "Mr. Judge, please summon our witnesses to appear in court" looked at the judge and nodded. A white woman in her thirties sat on the witness stand.
Henry walked over and asked, "Have you ever worked at the Manhattan Police Department, and in the past few years of work, you have also made up as a street blockade to arrest spring buyers."
The woman replied, "Yes."
"If the two young men on the other side invited you into his car, would you enter?" asked Henry, pointing to Ju An and Wang Fan.
"No, it would be dangerous," the woman replied, shaking her head.
"Suppose you get in the car, how would you talk to the men, and what means would you use to get them to speak their minds," Henry asked.
The woman said, "It's very difficult in this case, the buyers who let you get on the car are generally veterans, and they generally make a request after getting in the car, that is, to let you show them your **, so as to judge whether you are a police officer or not." If they don't mention it, then I'll ask him to say a word or implication with a surname deal."
Henry said, "Just like Officer Cora did? ”。
The woman nodded and said, "Yes."
Henry nodded and continued to ask, "Then will they directly mention the words "scoop ah" or something."
"No, they don't mention it, they avoid it when they talk, they give you money and they say, 'This is the money I gave your child to go to college, or buy toys or something, so that even if I catch you, I can't accuse him.'"
"Then based on your personal experience, after listening to the prosecution's evidence just now, what chance do you think the two people over there are looking for a family?" Henry asked again.
The woman replied, "I don't think it's very likely, that one of the two men barely interjected into the subject, and that the other man did not mention the exculpatory word of circumvention of the law throughout the conversation".
Henry looked at the jury and asked, "Is it because you don't let the policewoman get into the suspect's car because you try not to get into someone else's car for the purpose of protecting the policewoman?" ”。
"Yes, the vast majority of women who block the street are unable to file a complaint in the end, and in order for the policewoman to face one or several men alone, the personal safety will be threatened to a certain extent, which is why it is required not to let the policewoman get on the pleasure bus as much as possible."
Henry said, "Mr. Judge, I'm done."
Then the judge tried to signal the prosecution again, and then the prosecution got up and asked, "When did you join the police station?"
The woman replied, "Seven years ago".
The prosecution asked, "Why did you leave the police station?" ”。
"I'm married and have children, and I need to take care of them," the woman replied. Then he motioned for the judge to finish his questioning and returned to his seat.
Henry stood up again and asked the judge to ask Juan some questions, and when Juan arrived at the witness stand, he asked, "Why did you stop and let this lady into the car?"
Ju An said: "At that time, I was in a town in Montana, and it was raining heavily as soon as I got out of the airport, and I couldn't find a taxi, so a person drove me to the place enthusiastically, so if someone wanted to take a ride, I would stop and take them on the way."
Henry asked, "Then do you think this Officer Cora wants a ride?"
Ju An nodded and said, "Yes." Then Henry motioned to the judge that he was done with the question, and returned to his seat.
At this time, the prosecution asked to question Wang Fan, and when Wang Fan got on the witness stand, the prosecution walked up to Wang Fan and asked: "Why do you think that this situation was a girl with leaky clothes who wanted to take a ride?"
Before he could finish speaking, Henry jumped up and said, "Mr. Judge, I object, dress cannot be the standard for judging street girls, the prosecution is to lure witnesses".
The judge said: "The objection is valid, and the prosecution pays attention to your words".
The prosecution then asked, "Then how do you usually distinguish between street girls?" ”。
Wang Fan glanced at Henry, saw him nodded and said: "At that time, the lights on the side of the road were very bright, and the surrounding shops were all lit up, in our country, the street girl would not appear under such bright lights, because the police are very serious and crack down on illegal crimes, and the exposure of the clothes I think is her own business." Wang Fan's answer made the prosecution a little embarrassed, this is a clear slap in the face, the Chinese street blocking girls have been driven to the black lights and blind places, the American street blocking women are brilliantly lit, how can you make the American police embarrassed.
Then he asked a few more questions, and the controller sat back at the table.