Chapter Seventy-Nine: A Great Victory

Seeing that the prosecution was seated back, Henry stood up and said to the judge, "Your Excellency, please let me show you our new evidence."

Judge Lao Hei, with his hands crossed under his chin, nodded: "Yes."

Then Henry played Ju An's recording, and then said to the jury: "This recording just now was recorded by Mr. Ju, one of my two parties, and everyone noticed that it is basically similar to the recording provided by the police, only two more sentences of Chinese dialogue, and now I want to ask which jury understands Chinese."

One of the middle-aged Chinese jurors raised his hand and said, "I understand Chinese."

Henry smiled and said to the juror: "Then please tell the rest of the jurors, Mr. Liang, what do these two sentences mean in Chinese?"

The Chinese juror translated: "The two defendants, one thought that Officer Cora was the kind of person who introduced guests to the hotel and then took a commission for drinks, and the other thought that Officer Cora wanted to take them on a tour of New York, so he paid Officer Cora a fifty dollars as a deposit, and then asked her to take the two of them on a tour the next night."

After listening to this, Henry waved his hand and said: "If you still have any questions about the previous ones, I think this conversation solves all the problems, that is, my two clients, they are both well-educated, among them, Mr. Ju, who donated money to charity when he came to New York last time, and Mr. Wang, who has a travel company in China, and now cooperates with several ranches in Montana to do tourism, they came to New York, just to visit the scenery of New York, and feel the charm of New York as the world economic capital, But I believe that these two gentlemen may not have much good opinion of New York, because our New York police gentleman has subjectively assumed my client from beginning to end."

The prosecution immediately stood up and said: "We object, the methods used by our police are legal, our officer Cora has repeatedly hinted at the surnames of the two suspects, but the two suspects have not explicitly refused, and the final tape cannot completely deny the behavior of the two, just like the testimony provided by a witness just now, the veterans of buying spring are more cunning, maybe it is just a means for the two suspects to get rid of the lawsuit."

The judge said: "The objection is invalid, the defense lawyer you continue".

Henry nodded at the judge and continued: "First of all, this officer Cora did not refuse in the face of two male invitations to enter other people's cars, and got into the car, the lady above has already mentioned that under normal circumstances, female police officers will not get on the car, so why did our Officer Cora get in the car, I have Officer Cora's information here" picked up a document from the table and handed it to the judge, and then said: "I have just joined the police force for less than a year, I am a newcomer, and I am eager to be recognized by my peers, take a look, The boss's evaluation of the police officer, it was written, dedication and passion for fighting crime. And this officer Cora received two complaints this month about her law enforcement problems, but they did not attract the attention of our police department, and persistence can sometimes turn into extremism, and passion can turn into impulsiveness."

The man in his forties on the prosecution immediately stood up again and loudly objected: "We protest, this is an insult to the hard work of a good police officer, Mr. Judge!" ”。

The judge looked at Henry and said, "The protest is valid."

After listening to this, Henry shifted the topic: "Then let's take a look at the cases in New York that have been convicted in the past year, here are the cases in which more than a dozen female police officers were sentenced after arresting the suspect as bait" After speaking, he pointed to a large stack of thick materials on the table: "Mr. Judge, Mr. Jurors, these cases have a similarity, that is, the suspects have all taken off their clothes, or had further physical contact, and then were found guilty, and the law agrees that the arrest of the police officers is legal, and there is a condition, There was further action, which was conscious physical contact, but my two clients, one of whom was driving at the time, and the other, according to the police sources, did not mention that two or one of them had undressed or had signs of physical contact with Officer Cora".

Upon hearing this, the prosecution argued that "one of the gentlemen had been arrested before they had been contacted".

Henry smiled at the jury: "In what name was arrested?" With a young and beautiful woman**? Of course, the premise is that you don't know that this young girl is a police officer, and wants to catch you and throw you in prison, the police arrest itself is illegal, and my two clients did not show the slightest hint of further physical contact with Officer Cora after handing over fifty dollars to Officer Cora, not to mention that the evidence we provided has proved that my client is just a gentleman's piggyback lady who wants to hitchhike, Nor do I deny that perhaps one of my clients seems to have a crush on Officer Cora from the recording, and that it is a God-given right for a young lad to love a young girl, and that our police want to take advantage of this to send my client to prison."

Henry continued: "My two clients are both graduates of China's famous universities, although I don't know about Chinese universities, I don't know what this university is like, but I checked, this university's domestic acceptance rate in China is one-twelfth, far higher than our Harvard, Yale acceptance rate, looking at their records, completely innocent, not even a speeding ticket, Mr. Ju to buy car insurance is the biggest discount, my two clients are law-abiding good citizens, well-educated, And life is quality-oriented, caring, and they now live in one of the most luxurious hotels in New York, how likely is it that someone like them will be interested in a lowest-level street jamway? ”。

Ju An is a little incomprehensible below, and rich people can't find street girls at the bottom? What kind of logic is this, let you defend us not guilty, what kind of quality of life are you talking about, good education and the like have a dime to do with it.

Henry continued: "Look at the previous case, among so many cases, none of the female police officers got into the suspect's car, so that the suspect was convicted, look at the situation of this female police officer of Kora, in the face of two young and powerful male surnames, when the vast majority of female police officers refused to even get into the car with a male surname, why?" Perhaps Officer Cora told her inwardly that my two clients were not in danger, and even looked like two highly educated and polite gentlemen, and then she got into the car and knitted a trap at my two clients with her Brulinker accent that even many native-born Americans couldn't understand, and the only thing that could be heard clearly in the recording was service, to satisfy you, what kind of crime was that, and when did the English dictionary define service as a surname transaction, and satisfying you as a woman selling her body? Could it be that I'm old and slept last night for decades? ”。

"The defense lawyer is subjectively assuming the opinions of the witnesses, and cannot be used as evidence, Your Excellency."

"Your Excellency! So what prompted this Officer Cora to get in the car? Is it because two of my clients appear to be Asian? ”

"Your Excellency! I protest that in the course of our law enforcement, there is no racial discrimination in the slightest, and the defense lawyer is completely slanderous"

"Pay attention to your rhetoric, defense lawyer, if you have evidence that the police have the slightest bit of racism in the course of this case, then we will have a separate trial on this case, and I would be happy to have those racists punished," the black judge said.

"I'm sorry Your Excellency, I didn't mention racial discrimination, I'm just making assumptions about what drove Officer Cora into the car of my two clients."

The judge replied, "Put aside your reasoning, you know that racial discrimination is much more serious than in this case".

Hearing this, Wang Fan asked in a low voice: "Is the crime of racial discrimination serious?" ”。

"In reality, it's widespread, like people of color aren't as easy to find jobs as white people, and so on, a lot of things, but you can't say it, you can only do it, and if you say it, it's a big problem," Juan said.

Henry said sorry and said: "Even according to the police, at that time my two clients did not have the slightest further action, they were neatly dressed on his body when they were arrested, this arrest itself is illegal, and the police department does not think about their own actions, and wants to forcibly impose the consequences on my two clients, even after we present the most favorable evidence, the prosecution is still looking for excuses, They are still trying to put the charges firmly on my two clients, they don't care about justice, not the two well-educated, clean, law-abiding citizens who are about to be blamed for trumped-up crimes, even if they don't usually have a small speeding ticket, our police gentlemen only care about their image, they only write down what they imagine in their minds, hang it around someone's neck, and then send that person to prison, and then tell the public that we have caught another criminal, Mr. Jurors, look at the records of these two gentlemen, they are as pure as a blank sheet of paper, and I have finished speaking, jurors."

With that, Henry walked over to the long table and did it.

The judge looked at it and said, "The court will be adjourned for ten minutes, and the verdict will be announced in ten minutes, and the two lawyers will come in with me in a while."

Henry smiled and asked Ju An: "The condition I propose is that there is no record of the case, the police department apologizes, the court costs are borne by the police department, and the compensation is 2,000 US dollars per person, what do you think?"

Ju An and Wang Fan looked at it and said, "You can do the compensation, the rest must be done" Wang Fan next to him also nodded.

Henry nodded, and went out of the courtroom, and went to the judge's room, along with the prosecution lawyer.

When the trial reopened, the judge first asked the jury to announce the results, and the jury unanimously decided that Ju An and Wang Fan were not guilty.

Then the judge pronounced the verdict: "Mr. Ju An and Mr. Wang Fan are acquitted, and the police department apologizes to the two gentlemen at the same time and bears all the litigation costs, and compensates the two gentlemen with $3,500 each, and the judgment takes effect immediately!" With that, the judge's little wooden hammer fell.