Chapter Seventy-Six: Trial (1)
"Relax, Mr. Zhong, you did a good job the day before, as long as we follow our established strategy, I believe that the jury will make a fair sentence!" After walking into the courthouse, Allen. Sean seemed to see that Zhong Shi's love was a little nervous, and couldn't help but comfort him softly.
Allan. Sean is seventy years old this year, but he looks no more than fifty years old from the outside, and his long-term pampered life has made him very well maintained. He was not too tall, but his waist was straight, and there was no rickety at all; With meticulously groomed hair and a vest forever between a shirt and coat, it presents an old-school retro and traditional. His eyes are blazing, his voice is like a bell, his logic is clear, and his mouth is like a river; Although it will not make the other party speechless, but unconsciously let the other party fall into your own trap.
This is an extremely powerful character, otherwise Zhong Shi's huge team of lawyers would not have made him the chief defender, like Jason. A rising star like Butler can only play a game. And when the prosecution heard that the bell stone party had invited Allen. Sean's time was decisively replaced by their most powerful prosecutor.
After bypassing the surrounded press media and the overwhelming spotlight, Zhong Shi's expression was inevitably a little unnatural, this kind of exposure was not what he wanted, but there was no way, this kind of thing that happened to him was what the media was most willing to track and report. Although the prosecution and defense have unanimously decided not to allow the media to appear inside the courtroom, outside the courtroom, the media is constantly chasing and intercepting them.
This unnatural fall of Bell Stone into Allen. In Sean's eyes, he thought that his client was worried about the lawsuit, so he comforted him. In the trial, which ended yesterday, the prosecution and defense began the first round of confrontation on whether Tianyu Fund and Zhongshi had insider trading against Stanley. Naturally, the prosecution pointed out in stern terms that Tianyu Fund and Zhong Shi himself were involved in insider trading. And illegal profit-making, the amount of money is huge. And Allen. Sean, for his part, indignantly refuted the accusations, arguing that the prosecution's accusations were entirely intended to add to the guilt.
In today's trial, key witnesses will be present, which puts a lot of pressure on Zhong Shi's side.
"Your Excellency, I would like to summon my witnesses to testify!"
After standing to greet the presiding judge. The prosecution's lawyer was the first to come forward and demand evidence. This burly, young prosecutor is called Mead. Wolfsky, 40 years old, is an Eastern European immigrant from Boston. A graduate of Yale Law School, he is proficient in civil and criminal litigation, and after more than a decade of working in the legal profession, he resolutely jumped into the legal profession because he was ready to run for state legislature and then march to the governor's throne.
What he does now may be his political capital in the future. So he went all out this time and vowed to remove Zhongshi, an external "moth" in the capital market.
The presiding judge was in his fifties, senile, with a white beard, wearing a pair of reading glasses, not smiling, sitting on a high legal table, looking majestic and solemn. He first looked in the direction of the jury. Then he glanced at the defense lawyer team and saw that the other party did not raise any objections. He nodded slightly.
Soon, the two bailiffs were armed with Tom. Dalaire appeared in court, perhaps because he was swept away by the Stanley Company, and at this time he had lost his former vigor and was only wearing a simple casual outfit. After arriving at the witness stand, he put his hand on the Bible and made a vow akin to "telling the truth." Then he sat quietly and waited for the prosecution and defense to take turns to cross-examine him.
"Mr. Dalare, do you know the suspect?" Mead walked over to Tom. In front of Dalaire, he stared at the other party's eyes for a long time, and suddenly pointed to Zhong Shi, who was sitting next to the defense lawyer's team, with his hand, and said loudly in the direction of the jury. "Maybe I should ask, did you have any business contact with the suspect, or did you have any interest involved?"
The twelve jury members were all residents of New York State, white and black, and one Asian American. Occupations include real estate agents, housewives, office workers, truck drivers, etc. After the court had given them a message about the jury, the men came to the courtroom for the prosecution and defense lawyers to choose. In other words, these jurors are now selected from a randomly selected group of people who can attend jury duty, and some of whom the lawyers on both sides believe are most likely to be in their interests.
Once the members of these juries have been selected, they are managed by special personnel and forbidden to communicate with the outside world, in order to prevent public opinion from influencing their judgment during the trial. In this process, the government will bear the costs of lost work, food and lodging, and this part of the cost is part of the cost of litigation.
Mead. When Wolfsky said this, he naturally put Tom Murphy first. Dalaire plucked the whole thing out of it and let the jury know that this man had nothing to do with the case and that he had no motive to frame a person. Tom. Naturally, Dalaire understood, and replied without hesitation: "Yes, I have no business dealings with Mr. Zhong Shi, and we have never met even before that. ”
"Okay!" In Tom. In the course of Dalare's narration, Mead. Wolfsky's eyes kept staring at the members of the jury, and when he saw that several members of the jury showed thoughtful expressions, he was overjoyed in his heart, and hit the railroad while it was hot, "Then Mr. Dalare, tell me in detail about your mistake at work, and how this mistake led to the Tianyu Fund and the suspect taking the opportunity to short the stock of Stanley Company." ”
"Good!" Tom. Doulaill naturally couldn't ask for it, and after sorting out his thoughts a little, he told the "reason" of the matter, "I was originally the chief risk officer of Stanley Company, and I was in ......."
As he narrated, the whole story gradually became clear. In the minds of the jury, it became that Bell Stone began to deliberately short the stock of Stanley Company after the negotiation failed, because they learned that Stanley had a huge loss in subordinated debt. And behind while Tom. Dolaire's work made a mistake, but instead of warning the other party, Zhong Shi took this opportunity to short-sell for profit more unscrupulously until he was targeted by the SEC. (To be continued......)
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