Zhu Jinchuan stared at a letter of resignation on the mahogany table, his face a little gloomy.

Ling Li stood in front of him, his back was still straight, but it didn't seem to be the kind of nervous tension that he was a little unconfident before, but more like a support from the inside out.

He was a little stunned, but it was only a week, and this little rookie who didn't understand anything and could only poke the basket everywhere seemed to be a little different.

Ling Li had a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, and her voice was very calm: "Last time, I was angry and said that I was going to resign, but this time, I really thought about it clearly." ”

She looked directly into Zhu Jinchuan's eyes, and her expression was sincere and sincere: "Director Zhu, thank you for taking care of me this year, although there have been some unpleasantness, but I have still learned a lot." ”

After listening to her statement, Zhu Jinchuan was still silent, but there was a movement in his hand.

He pulled an envelope out of the drawer and slowly pushed it down the table to her.

Ling Li didn't know what to do, lowered his eyes and looked at the envelope that seemed to be not thin, and was a little confused: "This is ......"

Zhu Jinchuan finally spoke: "This is the agency fee repaid by Qu Jia's parents. Although Xiao Lu is in charge of the case, you are running around in the early stage, and you should have a share. ”

She suddenly realized, but she didn't pick up the envelope, only smiled: "I'm a salaried lawyer, and I shouldn't have it." This money is not my share, I can't take it, and I shouldn't take it. ”

Zhu Jinchuan frowned and stared at her for a long time, until he was sure that she really didn't want the money, he slowly took back the envelope and asked, "You want to leave twice, and you have already made up your mind to come and go." Don't blame me for asking more, though. Have you found a place to go? Or rather, what intentions have been set? ”

Ling Li shook her head, but the blankness in her eyes was no longer there. Nanzhiyi is right, if there is no sense of belonging and no sense of achievement, then, you should consider a different path.

Even if you want to continue to be a lawyer, you should change your firm, contact some different people, different ways of working, learn more and work harder, perhaps, you can find a suitable one for her after all.

She didn't know if she was the right one, but if she kept spinning and chasing her tail, she would never grow.

Thinking of this, Ling Li also had the confidence to say, "It's not decided yet, but I think I'll be able to find the direction soon." ”

A hint of surprise flashed in Zhu Jinchuan's eyes, and he pursed his lips and knocked on the table: "In this case, you are involved in danger and catch the real murderer, but it makes you a lot more confident." However, I still have to warn you that this is not a normal way to handle cases. ”

Ling Li was noncommittal to his words, and she didn't want to argue, still maintaining a faint smile.

The ancients said that differences do not conspire with each other, since Zhu Jinchuan thinks that she is not the material to be a lawyer, and he has no intention of taking her, so why should he lose his persistence because of his evaluation?

She raised her wrist and looked at the time, it was almost noon, so she said goodbye to Zhu Jinchuan: "Director Zhu, I will leave first, if I have the opportunity in the future, I hope to get your advice again." ”

Looking at Ling Li's back as she turned to leave, Zhu Jinchuan's eyes tightened, and she called out to her: "Ling Li, I have a retrial criminal case in my hand, you can see if you are interested." ”

Ling Li turned to look at him, a little puzzled in his eyes.

Zhu Jinchuan took out a cigarette and lit it slowly: "An intentional homicide case, the death penalty in the first instance, and the death penalty in the second instance are suspended." The defendant has been appealing for four years, and finally, the Provincial High Court initiated the retrial procedure ex officio. ”

He paused, and there was a deep meaning in his eyes: "The defendant in the case is called Qin Xinghai, a native of Changshan, according to the opinion of ordinary people, this person's crime of killing his father and mother is unforgivable. However, I don't think so. ”

Ling Li was a little stunned, not knowing why he suddenly brought up such a case.

She was about to refuse, but Zhu Jinchuan spoke again: "This case is the one I insisted on defending my guilt five years ago despite the wishes of the parties. Moreover, there are some similarities compared to your family's case. If you have doubts about the verdict, if you want to try to look at a felony from a different perspective, consider the next step. ”

At that moment, it was as if the wound on his chest that had been scabbed had been torn open again, and all his limbs were in pain.

There is also the deep unwillingness that swells to strike. However, no matter how unwilling she is, what can she do?

The verdict has clearly told her that the test report, the source of the poison, and the method of poisoning cannot be verified, and there is still a possibility of torture to extract confessions in the case, and some key evidence cannot be strengthened because of its age.

Even though Ling Li knew that the murderer was Zhong Chengheng, he couldn't see the punishment of him by the law.

And when she asked the judge why she succumbed to public opinion and did not uphold justice, the judge asked her rhetorically, what is justice? Is the majority of people's thinking justice, public opinion justice, or the facts of the case justice?

Everyone is not a god, and they can't go back to the past to see the scene on the day of the crime, who is qualified to take the defendant's life to make a big gamble, and it is actually okay to bet on the evidence obtained by the police illegally obtained evidence? Can the boundaries of public power be extended indefinitely in this way?

It really stopped her. There is no doubt about guilt, no presumption of guilt is made, and illegal evidence shall be excluded...... These criminal law terms, which are often on the lips like oaths, are actually on their own family members when it comes time to put them into practice.

Whether in terms of legal theory or procedure, Ling Li knew that there was no problem with this judgment.

She's a lawyer, and she understands all these things.

However, when all this happened to her own family, when the cries of the crowd in support of procedural justice overwhelmed her voice of being alone and wanting to hate her family, no one could understand the pain and powerlessness.

No one can be responsible for the souls who sleep underground in the name of shame, Hugejiletu and Nie Shubin, the lessons brought to people by these names are tragic enough.

But who is responsible for her family?

If it's not Zhong Chengheng, then who should it be?

Ling Li still didn't leave, and Zhu Jinchuan's words made her original determination to go, but suddenly wavered again.

It took Ling Li an afternoon to read the case materials over and over again, downloading similar judgment documents, until six o'clock in the afternoon, when everyone in the office was gone, and Ling Li closed the thick file in his hand.

She closed her aching eyes and pieced together fragments of the case in her mind.

The complainant, Qin Xinghai, was a 30-year-old man at the time of the offence.

Qin Xinghai is a native of Changshan City, a prefecture-level city about 400 kilometers away from the capital of Funan Province, close to the border of another province, and its economy is not very developed.

Qin Xinghai was originally a farmer who worked at home, his education was not high, he didn't finish junior high school, and he didn't have any skills. Later, like the young people around him, he drifted to the capital to work.

He returned to his hometown at the age of twenty-five and got married, and at the age of twenty-seven he divorced again and had no children.

Divorced, Qin Xinghai is still floating outside, anyway, he has no children and no daughters, but he eats alone and the whole family is not hungry.

Later, because his hometown was close to the city, and that area was included in the construction of the new city to be relocated, although Qin Xinghai's house was dilapidated, it was big enough, and he lost a house at the junction of urban and rural areas and hundreds of thousands of compensation at once.

The house was left to his parents, and Qin Xinghai took more than half of the compensation and returned to the capital.

Qin Xinghai is an alcoholic, a good gambler, can't save money in his hands, and has no serious job, it is said that when he was working outside when he was young, he had some things to do with some indiscriminate women, and he also came back with a disease to infect his ex-wife, so there was a later divorce.

Everyone else has money to buy a house, buy a car, and start a small business, but Qin Xinghai, who is not in tune, spent it in less than two years eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling.

This time it was even worse, two years of idleness and no work, because I couldn't pay the rent, and was swept out of the house by the landlord.

Moreover, because of his gambling habits, he also owed a debt, which was chased and begged, so he had to return to his hometown for refuge.

Two weeks after returning home, Qin Xinghai's mother was found dead in the pond behind the house. And his father, in the process of fighting him, fell downstairs and died.

Judging from the prosecution's accusations, Qin Xinghai was anxious to ask for money because of gambling debts, so he started the idea of demolition compensation in his parents' hands.

That night, he tricked his mother into going out, knocked her unconscious with the handle of a kitchen knife and threw her into a pond in an attempt to create the illusion of drowning.

However, his father discovered his actions, so the two father and son got into a fight, and his father fell from the roof to the ground, and died on the way to the hospital.

In addition, two years before the incident, Qin Xinghai's parents had purchased life accident insurance separately under the promotion of relatives who sold insurance, and Qin Xinghai also knew about this matter, and it was not ruled out that he also had the idea of accidental death insurance.

At first glance, there is no resemblance between this case and her family's situation, but Qin Xinghai, a son of evil, was able to be sentenced to a suspended death sentence in the second instance under the death sentence of the first instance, and Zhong Chengheng escaped punishment in the end after four death sentences, which is very similar.

Moreover, the woman who supports Qin Xinghai behind his back is also his ex-wife, whose name is Hua Zhao.

It's just that, after all, she is a woman with low education in the countryside, and her family conditions are not good, so she can't promote media attention like Shi Meina, so she can only run around in the most primitive way to petition for grievances.

I don't know why, this time, Hua Zhao actually found Zhu Jinchuan, who defended Qin Xinghai with legal aid in the first instance. Moreover, the retrial application she submitted according to Zhu Jinchuan's instructions was really passed.

Judging from the prosecution's evidence, Qin Xinghai's previous guilty confession, polygraph results, fingerprints on the tools used to commit the crime, the blood stains of the victim on his body, and his casual conversations with the inmates in the same room after entering the detention center......

All the evidence points to the fact that he did kill someone. However, at the beginning of the first trial, he suddenly retracted his confession and denied his guilty confession.

However, due to the rigor of the evidence, Qin Xinghai was sentenced to death in the first instance and immediately executed, and was sentenced to a suspended death sentence in the second instance.

Ling Li slowly opened her eyes. Although it is inevitable that this case will bring back her bleak memories, she actually has a little expectation for handling this difficult case.

She frowned and thought about the case, carefully combing through what she thought was suspicious. It wasn't until I found out that it was completely dark outside the window that I packed up my things and went home.

Now that she has entered the retrial, there seem to be many doubts in this case that she has not noticed?

After tidying up the desktop, when she looked up, she found that in the corner of the desk farthest from her, there was a burgundy thermos cup, and a note was pressed under the paper cup.

She picked up the cup and looked at the note, and there was a row of words dancing at the top of the note: "Xiao Lingzi, this palace will give you a cup of hot chocolate, don't be grateful, Qin this." ”

In the lower right corner is a stick figure of a smiling face, and next to the smiling face is a bunch of small words: "I'm glad you're back, we're fighting side by side, Fighting!" ”

Ling Li saw the words on it clearly, three points helpless and seven points funny. In addition, there is a feeling of satisfaction.

This must have been left behind by Lu Xiaoxiao when she left, probably because she was obsessed with work at the time, so it didn't bother her.

On the way home, she held the cup and kept smiling at the corner of her mouth. In winter, the temperature at night is getting lower and lower, and the night breeze is bitterly cold, but the hot and sweet drink in the cup warms her body and heart.