It was already dusk, and Zhu Jinchuan was still discussing the case with Ling Li.

Zhu Jinchuan was the first plane to fly back to the capital from the imperial capital in the morning, and it is said that the expert witnesses who got the job done on this trip were so big that they had never appeared in court before, and this time they agreed to appear in court, and basically the case has been secured.

After winning another agency fee, Zhu Jinchuan did not relax at all, went to the client company and rushed back to the law firm non-stop, pulling Ling Li from noon and began to prepare for the corpse crushing case.

In the days when Zhu Jinchuan was away, Ling Li seized the time to take a good look at those materials, but she had limited qualifications and couldn't do it without forgetting, she forgot about this and that, and only had some general ideas about the occurrence of the whole case, and basically did not grasp the details.

However, from the circumstances of the case that she had learned, Lu Xiaoxiao had previously told Ling Li that the interference of the corpse dismemberment case with the police and the prosecution was vividly reflected in this case.

In criminal cases, it is not common for victims or victims' families to retain lawyers, because most crimes, especially serious violent crimes, are public prosecution cases, and the procuratorate is responsible for proving that the defendant is guilty and should be punished by the criminal law.

The lawyers hired by them do not have the same powerful investigative capabilities as the public security organs, nor do they have the power to stand in court and directly make accusations against the defendants, so most of the lawyers' work is to defend the defendants and protect the rights of the defendants in the proceedings.

In this case, the victim rarely retained a lawyer, and found Zhu Jinchuan, who had done a lot of work in the past few years.

Zhu Jinchuan took the case, and he didn't know how he could convince the family to let Ling Li host it.

It's just that Ling Li doesn't know what she can do in this case, let alone what the purpose of Zhu Jinchuan's consideration is.

The materials that Zhu Jinchuan took out for the second time were thick and there were thousands of pages, from the on-site inspection records, judicial trace identification, the defendant's mental evaluation, and even procedural documents such as police records.

Zhu Jinchuan obviously knew that she couldn't quickly digest these materials in a week, so he picked out some important ones from them and threw them out individually.

The first is the examination report on those residual limbs.

Zhu Jinchuan gave Ling Li three minutes to review it, and then summarized the useful information in it: "Only the victim's mutilated limbs were found at the scene, and there was no part of the torso or head that could prove the exact death of the victim. At the same time, the forensic life reaction experiment showed that the two arms were cut off from the body when the victim was still alive. Therefore, whether anyone died, the police could not give a definite answer. ”

Ling Li finished reading the inspection report, and compared it with the inquest record.

She frowned and was a little puzzled: "It stands to reason that someone died, and the victim Tang Aoxue is only missing, so why should it be transferred for prosecution?" It is impossible for a judge to admit such weak evidence. If, like She Xianglin's case, the victim suddenly appeared a few years later, wouldn't it be another big joke? ”

That's what she's been wondering about these days.

Before leaving, Zhu Jinchuan said that the procuratorate, like the victim's family, was making a big gamble, but she didn't think that there was any chance of winning this case.

Judging from the evidence alone, she actually agreed that the defendant Zheng Qijie was innocent.

Ling Li's doubts were obviously expected by Zhu Jinchuan.

His expression was calm, and he shook his head at Ling Li: "Actually, there is still too much information that has not been written on paper, now that the case has just begun, I will tell you little by little, and you can also learn more." ”

Then, he tapped the desktop with his right hand, and his voice was serious: "Tang Aoxue disappeared two years ago, that night, the city bureau 110 actually received a record very similar to Tang Aoxue's report, she was very scared and called for help at that time, and before the operator could respond, she said on the phone that she was joking, and then hung up." The recording of this phone call is still there, and the police have analyzed it countless times, and in the background sound of Tang Aoxue's call for help, there is a very subtle man's voice, which has been identified as Zheng Qijie. ”

"Doesn't that prove he's at the scene of the crime?" Ling Li perked up, and immediately asked, "Why is this material not in the evidence?" ”

"How can it be so easy," Zhu Jinchuan smiled bitterly, "I haven't found out where the first scene is, and he was talking to someone else at the time, and even judged through the recording that he was more than ten meters away from Tang Aoxue at that time." Isn't it too normal for a teacher, a staff member, to appear in the same school? What's more, the scene of the first crime has not been determined until now, even if there is a recording, it can only prove that Zheng Qijie was at the scene when Tang Aoxue called, how can you deduce that it was him? Such a thing with no probative force will obviously not be favored by the procuratorate, so it is not in the prosecution materials. ”

Ling Li wilted. It's true, there is his voice but not talking to Tang Aoxue, even if they were together at the time, there was no other evidence to prove it, this is at most an indirect evidence, and it can't play a key role at all.

Zhu Jinchuan continued: "In addition, the last time Tang Aoxue was photographed by the school's surveillance was after Tang Aoxue made that phone call, that is to say, during the time period when she called to report false police, she was indeed safe, and her personal freedom was not restricted." ”

"Yes, this goes back to my question just now, why do you have to prosecute with such weak evidence?" Ling Li asked, and it seemed that the case had entered a dead loop.

"The problems you have noticed, the public prosecutors and the law have naturally also noticed them. This case was first handled as soon as possible for fear of causing panic among the students, but the first review did not come to the court at all, and as early as when the procuratorate was reviewing the prosecution, it was stuck due to insufficient evidence and returned to the public security bureau for supplementary investigation twice. And in these two investigations, Zheng Qijie was really found in the case again. ”

Ling Li was in good spirits at first, but then she had some bad premonitions in her heart.

Since it has gone through two supplementary investigations, I am afraid that it is not so easy to find strong evidence.

Sure enough, Zhu Jinchuan's words made her feel more and more frightened the more she listened.

When it came time to return for supplementary investigation, the police had something to gain. In response to the suspect's argument that he and the victim did not know each other, two pieces of negative evidence were found.

First of all, I found the call records of Zheng Qijie and Tang Aoxue, and more than once. A month before Tang Aoxue's disappearance, he had applied for a calling card.

At that time, the real-name system for mobile phone numbers had not been fully implemented, and Tang Aoxue had another commonly used phone number, so the first investigation did not find that she had two phone numbers.

The first time it was returned for supplementary investigation, and Tang Aoxue's office supplies were cleaned up again, and a police officer accidentally found the phone card that was stuck in the gap of the computer desk.

In the call list of that card, there is a record of her calling and calling Zheng Qijie three times, of which the two calls lasted two minutes and the last call lasted thirty seconds.

And the last call was on the night of Tang Aoxue's disappearance.

It stands to reason that this is a real hammer, and the defendant's defense that the two do not know each other is completely denied. didn't expect to be quibbled by Zheng Qijie.

His reason was that it was a call he received to sell insurance, and the first two times he listened patiently to the salesman for a long time because he was polite, and the last time he hung up because he was in a hurry and didn't want to listen anymore.

And the results of the investigation of the other call records of that card actually reflected Zheng Qijie's words.

When they received the call, they all said that it was a sales call, selling insurance. Tang Aoxue's colleague also testified that some time before her disappearance, she suddenly started selling insurance part-time.

"It can also be said that it was Tang Aoxue who sold him insurance before the two met. The last night was just when the defendant wanted to start, so he went out after making an appointment, so the call was so short. Makes sense. Ling Li reasoned.

"Reasonable, but not legal." Zhu Jinchuan shook his head, "The call record can only prove that they spoke that night, there was no content of the call, there were no eyewitnesses in contact with the two, and there is no inference supported by evidence, it is just a castle in the air." Therefore, the procuratorate decided that the standard for prosecution was not met and returned it again. ”

Well, although it is very far-fetched, the interest of the suspicious point belongs to the defendant, and in the absence of other real hammers, it cannot constitute indirect evidence of the chain of evidence, and it does not give enough reason for the procuratorate to transfer it for prosecution.

Ling Li nodded lightly, waiting for Zhu Jinchuan to explain the results of the second supplementary investigation.

The second time it was returned for supplementary investigation, the police were cautious and invested a lot of energy in visiting and investigating many times, and there were still gains.

In addition to the people who come into contact with Zheng Qijie's usual work, few people in the school can notice the existence of such a person. And people who know Zheng Qijie basically say that this person is very weird, he lives in a simple place on weekdays, he doesn't talk much and doesn't like to interact with people, his life trajectory is basically going back and forth between the teaching building and the dormitory, and I haven't seen him have any other hobbies.

When they learned that Zheng Qijie actually had a doctorate, everyone expressed their incredibleness, and they didn't understand why a highly educated person would be willing to be a handyman at the bottom of the school.

And Zheng Qijie's colleague provided such a clue.

When Zheng Qijie commutes to work, he always carries a big denim blue rucksack, and he doesn't know what to pack. Once this colleague followed Zheng Qijie from work and saw that the strap of his backpack was about to break.

A colleague kindly reminded him that Zheng Qijie was full of nervousness at that time, put down his backpack and checked on the ground, and opened the zipper as soon as possible, as if he was looking through the contents to see if there was anything wrong.

It was at that moment that a colleague stumbled upon a jar of things in the backpack.

The jar is familiar, a special glass for storing some corrosive lab supplies in the laboratory, with HNO₃ written on it.

At that time, this colleague didn't care, just a small bottle of concentrated nitric acid, and the staff walked with the lab items everywhere, and there was no need to offend people for something worthless.

In addition to this colleague, there are also several other staff members who have seen Zheng Qijie stealing things.

It was either a glass bottle, a corrosive material, and he was even seen removing a half-human-tall plastic trash can.

Without exception, none of them reported Zheng Qijie. The reason is very simple, everyone's hands are not clean, compared to some small bits and pieces taken by Zheng Qijie, if the school strengthens management because of this, their losses will be great!

In addition, there are several other colleagues who live next door to Zheng Qijie, which proves that Zheng Qijie's house used to have a strange smell for a while.

During that time, through the comparison of the memories of several witnesses, it was inferred that it was probably shortly after Tang Aoxue's disappearance.