In less than an hour after the trial began, Ling Li was a little dazed, and she was a little dazed and couldn't catch it, and she blamed herself for not being able to find a more favorable way, and opposed the procuratorate's application for witnesses to appear in court.

Zhu Jinchuan had already told them that although he had not received the prosecution's materials, he could conclude that the witness who suddenly appeared was Qin Xinghai's classmate.

Since he appeared in court as a prosecution witness, there must be some crime in the hands of the procuratorate.

Qin Xinghai has not confessed to him all these years, but obviously this person is a soft egg, since he can appear in court in this case, he has made a confession that is unfavorable to Qin Xinghai on his behalf. For example, on the day of the crime, Qin Xinghai bought drugs.

Once the hallucinations caused by drug use are confirmed, as Zhu Jinchuan said, such a sharp knife holds the prosecutor's hand, even if Qin Xinghai's life can be saved because of the appeal without increasing the sentence, but the acquittal verdict they ambitiously wanted before is hopeless.

Zhu Jinchuan glanced at her, and said slowly: "I can't blame you for this, I'm afraid that this witness has already been held in the hands of the procuratorate, and he has been waiting for me to send it to the door." Sure enough, this one was choked by them. ”

In the end, he actually chuckled and said in a relaxed tone: "I can't imagine that the dignified Changshan Prefecture Prosecutor holds such a grudge and remembers this case for so many years." I also underestimated the enemy, and I didn't pay attention to the young hairy boy surnamed Chen. I inquired just now, and his hometown is from Changshan. ”

Ling Li was confused, but Lu Xiaoxiao nodded understandingly, obviously knowing a lot about the bends and bends, and added: "Because of wishing you back then, Qin Xinghai was not sentenced to death, presumably if people don't come back, they can't retire with peace of mind." ”

They played dumb riddles around and around, Ling Li was confused, but she didn't ask much.

Zhu Jinchuan looked at her, and his voice raised slightly: "Aren't you very interested in why I did the guilty defense back then?" I won't tell you, but you have to ask, and you have asked three times. Now it's time for you to ask, and you don't ask? ”

Lu Xiaoxiao's eyes were full of surprise, and after a while, she sneered: "Xiao Lingzi, I really didn't misunderstand you, you are really quite bold." ”

The two teased her for a while, and Zhu Jinchuan finally said slowly, solving the puzzle that Ling Li had never figured out.

Things have to start when Zhu Jinchuan just received Qin Xinghai's legal aid case. Supposedly, legal aid is conducted within the jurisdiction and does not cross jurisdictions. But at that time, Changshan had just opened up the blocked traffic because of a ladder highway, and the economy had not improved greatly, and there was not a decent law firm in the entire state, and there were even fewer lawyers.

However, this area is also an area with a high incidence of drug cases, and most of the felons are illiterate, and they can't even speak clearly in court, and there are so many cases that need legal aid.

At that time, many cases in Changshan Prefecture could not be heard because they could not wait for a lawyer, so the Provincial Department of Justice issued an opinion to support judicial affairs in Changshan District, and every year a part of the lawyers from the provincial law firm were transferred to take over legal aid cases in Changshan.

Zhu Jinchuan received Qin Xinghai's case in this context.

Originally, he thought that this was just a formality like the previous cases, but with an in-depth understanding of the case, he found that this case was full of suspicions.

However, although he had doubts, he found that the prosecution's evidence could be interlocked and self-justifying, and some of the small flaws he raised could not shake the key point of the evidence chain at all, so that Qin Xinghai was not guilty, but walked towards a dead end step by step.

In particular, in this case, a certain official who had already been dismissed went to Changshan to inspect the work, and accidentally learned about the situation of Qin Xinghai's case, and gave instructions on the spot that "killing one's father and mother, heaven will not tolerate it, and one must be killed to make an example."

And if he let the outcome of the death penalty go unattended and let the case continue to go through the death penalty review procedure in the Supreme Court, it is really hard to say whether it will be passed, or whether it will be remanded for retrial because the evidence is indeed doubtful.

So, he did the opposite, on the one hand, he asked Qin Xinghai to insist on a not-guilty defense, and he did the opposite in court to defend his guilt.

After coming down, he asked Qin Xinghai to appeal, and then explained to Hua Zhao, asking her to go to the government department to report, saying that he disregarded the wishes of the client, sacrificed the interests of the client, catered to the instructions of a certain leader to intervene in a specific case and demand a heavy sentence, and was in cahoots with the procuratorate and disregarded professional ethics.

Under his guidance, Hua Zhao soon became a major petitioner of the Provincial High Court's Litigation Service Center and the Provincial Procuratorate's Petition Center, and was well versed in all kinds of techniques for encircling and intercepting department-level and provincial-level cadres.

In fact, because of the existence of the right to an independent defense, lawyers and clients often disagree on the issue of whether to defend not guilty or to defend a minor crime.

However, the most common situation is that the defendant pleads guilty in order to strive for leniency, and the lawyer makes a not-guilty defense from the perspective of facts and evidence, which can not only allow the client to enjoy the benefits of a good attitude of confession and admission of guilt, but also fight for innocence. It is not uncommon for the defendant to insist that he is innocent and for the lawyer to defend his guilt.

Especially in legal aid cases, because of the small returns, many defense lawyers are not well prepared, and there are actually many, many cases in court in which the defendant pleads not guilty and the lawyer defends his guilt.

It's just that the defendants in legal aid cases are often at the bottom of society, and few people care about this issue. Moreover, most of the aid is just a formality, so almost no one has made a fuss about it.

In this way, the defendant's family did not give up, insisted that the work of the Department of Justice was not in place, and went to various departments to petition regularly every week, and even went to the court to set up a shed outside the court, which was reported every day rain or shine, which also gave the court leaders at that time a headache.

Although the court's decisions are not interfered with by the executive branch, after all, the Department of Justice, which appoints legal aid, can be regarded as a difficult brother to the court.

In order to balance the emotions of the parties' families and wipe the buttocks of the brother units, the Provincial High Court, after some consideration, reduced Qin Xinghai's sentence in the second instance and made a death sentence with a two-year reprieve, so that he could save his life.

Under the circumstances at that time, it was already a great thing that the defendant could escape death, and this result made the chief prosecutor of Changshan Prefecture so angry that he was helpless.

He could not point fingers at the verdict of the Provincial High Court, let alone Zhu Jinchuan, who was far away in the capital. It's just that since then, Zhu Jinchuan has rarely taken on criminal cases.

After all, everyone is not stupid, and over time they will know that this is what he did.

Rather than carefully avoiding the calculations of others, fearing that his affair with the procuratorate would affect the interests of the client, it was better to open up a new battlefield, so he turned to the intellectual property button in the emerging field at that time.

After listening to the cause and effect, Ling Li was so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth.

Lu Xiaoxiao looked at her out-of-body appearance and stabbed her in the face: "Xiao Lingzi, didn't you think you could play like this?" Learn more, I wish you a great head. ”

Ling Li nodded subconsciously, and raised her eyes to look at Zhu Jinchuan again, her eyes full of apologies.

Zhu Jinchuan had a smile on his face, and his voice was soft: "Do you understand?" Do I need to repeat it? ”

Ling Li shook her head stupidly, and when she saw that Zhu Jinchuan no longer looked at her, she lowered her head silently.

She sighed a little, she was still too tender, and her mind was too simple. Seeing is not necessarily believing, let alone hearsay?

Zhu Jinchuan did smash his own golden signboard, but it was a move to find another way when he was unable to stand up to the public authorities. Moreover, he succeeded, and the death reprieve in the second trial is already a good result.

Not to mention anything else, at least Qin Xinghai saved his life, and if he behaved well, Qin Xinghai could be released from prison in at least ten years. And Zhu Jinchuan resolutely broke off his originally prosperous career for a case that had no profit at all, and was forced to move from the criminal defense battlefield to avoid its edge.

Not only did she question Zhu Jinchuan's character with this case without understanding the cause and effect, but she also questioned him three or four times.

Although those who do not know are not guilty, death is not an excuse to always poke the hearts of others.

She was still stunned, but Lu Xiaoxiao stood up suddenly: "When the time comes, I have something important to do, so I'll leave first." ”

After speaking, she squeezed her eyes at Ling Li. Seeing that the wall clock on the wall pointed to five o'clock, Ling Li suddenly realized. Lu Xiaoxiao is going to deliver food to Nan Zhiyi again.

sent Lu Xiaoxiao away, and by the way, she remembered some interesting things about Nanzhiyi, which made her feel relaxed for a while.

However, when she saw Zhu Jinchuan's somewhat thin face on the other side, her heart became heavy again. His behavior of hitching on his future back then, as well as his forbearance that had been dormant for five years, but because the procuratorate found a key person, he was disrupted by a sudden attack, and his efforts over the years are likely to be in vain.

She sighed heavily: "And now, what should I do?" ”

Zhu Jinchuan didn't look like she was preoccupied, he smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, and then explained a lot of things to her, and finally said: "I won't send you home, you go back by yourself, be careful and safe." ”

Seeing Ling Li nodding, Zhu Jinchuan said calmly: "Go home and rest well, don't think about the court for the time being." After that, the task will be heavy. ”

Ling Li's action of packing up the backpack stiffened, her fingers couldn't help but tighten, and her nails pierced her palms with a slight pain.

She moved her lips, but she didn't say anything. Instead of saying something innocuous to comfort him, it is better to put more effort into yourself and share more for him.

Watching her go downstairs and leave, her slender back getting farther and farther away, Zhu Jinchuan's face was slightly gloomy, he raised his hand to press his eyebrows, closed his eyes, and sighed lightly.