Chapter 355: Something Went Wrong

Ling Li was woken up by the sound, looked up, and searched for the source of the sound.

Outside the window of the table was a huge fiery cloud, golden and brilliant, and the brightness pierced her pupils and contracted rapidly, and for a moment the scene in front of her was blurred again.

A familiar voice sounded in his ears: "Ling Li, today is the last day of evidence in the case of picking quarrels and provoking troubles, I saw that the evidence catalog is still on the photocopier, have you not taken it down at all?" And what about the evidence? ”

Hearing that it was a case, Ling Li's head cleared up a little, her eyes adjusted to the light, and she saw Zhu Jinchuan standing in front of her desk with a calm face and an A4 paper in her hand.

She blinked, her brain a little slow.

"Didn't you submit evidence?" Zhu Jinchuan frowned slightly, "Why is the evidence catalog still on the office?" ”

When he understood what Zhu Jinchuan was talking about, Ling Li suddenly became excited.

The catalogue of evidence was not loaded with information, so what about the evidence she had compiled at that time?

She didn't have time to speak, and after a period of confusion, she only found the original documents on her desktop, and she felt a little at ease.

She clearly remembered that it was copied, dozens of pages of information, and since it was not on the table, it was sure that it was put into an evidence bag.

Ling Li breathed a long sigh of relief, and was about to say that it had been handed over to Assistant Min to submit to the court, but suddenly remembered some of the case files she had destroyed in the afternoon.

Could it be ......

Ling Li walked in front of the shredder in a few steps, and sure enough, she found that in the alley with waste paper strips, there were some shredded paper with content that she was familiar with.

Later, on the phone call to Assistant Min, I learned that there was no evidence at all in the case file materials she got from Ling Li.

Assistant Min was very aggrieved about why he didn't submit the evidence: "Sister Ling, you didn't tell me that you submitted evidence to the court today, I thought it was the ones you gave and they have been handed over to the litigation service center." What should I do now that I'm off work? ”

Ling Li was so confused that she hung up the phone hastily, and when she raised her eyes, she saw Zhu Jinchuan standing at her desk all the time, quietly witnessing her hectic and panicked.

"Master, I'm ......" As soon as she opened her mouth, it turned out to be a slightly choked and hoarse voice, and even she herself was startled.

Zhu Jinchuan shook his head slightly, raised his hand to signal her not to continue, and replied: "It can still be remedied, you prepare things to re-catalog, and I will find someone to solve the problem." ”

Half an hour later, Zhu Jinchuan got the mobile phone number of the presiding judge of the case represented by Ling Li.

He copied the number to Ling Li and said, "Solve it yourself and persuade the judge to postpone." ”

Ling Li opened her mouth, her heart was very bottomless, but she also took it hard.

Ten minutes later, she made up a lot of reasons, and finally said that the judge would delay the presentation of evidence by one day.

Time was running out of time, and there was no other way than to make copies of the various originals and submit them to the court again.

Because of his absent-mindedness, he caused such a mistake today, and almost caused serious losses to the defendant, without Zhu Jinchuan scolding, Ling Li was already ashamed to death.

She finally got the evidence and checked it carefully, and when she looked up, the clock on the wall showed that it was already twelve o'clock in the evening.

A few meters away beside him, the lights in Zhu Jinchuan's office were still on.

Hearing her packing up her things, he also came out, holding a briefcase, locking the door reflexively, with a slightly reproachful look: "Let's go, send you home." ”

Ling Li nodded and silently followed behind him.

The rain that began to fall the night before was still dripping, and it did not have the coolness of the summer rain at all, but became the lingering autumn rain, which made the temperature that had been high a few days ago drop a lot.

From the law firm to the stairwell, there is a long corridor, and the corridor lights overhead are not bright enough, and they are still flashing, which is very ghostly.

It was probably late at night, and the property opened the window at the end of the corridor for ventilation, and the night breeze on the eleventh floor was not just slightly cool.

Ling Li's hair was messed up by the wind, her eyes were almost open, and suddenly she saw the shadow on the wall on one side, remembering the living shadow that Nan Zhiyi said about guiding the way, and remembering the inexplicable dream in the early hours of the morning, she had a chill down her spine, and couldn't help but shrink behind Zhu Jinchuan.

Zhu Jinchuan quietly raised his eyes and looked at the poorly touched street lamp on the top, and said: "I have complained to the property about the problem of this lamp, and it has not been repaired for almost a month." You wait, I'll send them a lawyer's letter tomorrow. ”

His half-joking tone made Ling Li's nervous mood relax slightly, and then said, "Master, the cost of your last court is probably enough to change the light bulb in this building dozens of times." ”

Zhu Jinchuan turned around angrily and knocked her on the head: "When you are joking, your thinking is quite clear, why do you drop the chain when you are working?" ”

Ling Li lowered her head embarrassedly, feeling very ashamed.

He stopped and said solemnly: "You are not in a very good state these days, I don't think you are tired because you are tired, and the work you are given is also within the scope of my control, so I didn't relieve your pressure." The mistakes you made today are completely undeserved, and there is no doubt about the ugly words and comforting words, I hope you will take this as a warning and adjust your state as soon as possible. ”

Ling Li nodded, but was silent after all.

Lu Xiaoxiao has always been very accurate when she looks at people, which makes Ling Li extremely impressed.

That day, Ling Li made a mistake in submitting evidence, and Assistant Min, in addition to showing herself, seemed to be really suspicious of wanting to borrow her to take the position.

Although she took the responsibility on herself afterwards, saying that she didn't check the empty document bag properly, but anyone with a discerning eye knows that the main responsibility is on Ling Li.

It is a good thing to have the courage to take responsibility, but at this time, he jumped out to find a sense of existence in something that obviously has nothing to do with him, and went to Zhu Jinchuan's office to review it with tears in his eyes.

Ling Li didn't want to worry about her. Handling the case well is the most important thing, and she has no heart to deal with the rest of the things that others seem to be tricky, and as for wasting energy by fighting with a little assistant, it is not within the scope of her consideration.

However, she later expressed to Zhu Jinchuan that she did not want an assistant at this stage.

Zhu Jinchuan smiled without saying a word, hugged his arms and raised his sword eyebrows: "You know what it's like to have an assistant who works stupidly every day but can't help anything, right?" You should have complimented me on my good temper for not kicking you away in the first place. ”

Ling Li was ashamed, and just wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into.

A week later, the case she represented went to trial.

There were too many accidents in this case, and it is already the result of the judge's mercy to be able to go to court today.

Ling Li didn't dare to be careless at all, and after the prosecutor read out the indictment, she trembled and began to reply.

The reply has already been written, and both the judge and the prosecution have read it, but today's court is not considered to be a procedure.

The prosecution's ironclad evidence is the Skynet surveillance of the road section where the crime occurred that night, and the two waves of gangsters had a quarrel, and then they got into a mess. The facts of the defendant's crime are almost irrefutable, and although the consequences of the fight with a murder weapon are not serious, and only one person was slightly injured, it has already constituted picking quarrels and provoking trouble.

It is almost impossible to determine the facts of the crime, and it depends on how the sentence is measured.

Judging from the circumstances in which the defendant in the case was not allowed to be released on bail pending trial at the earliest, it is almost certain that the prosecution believes that the actual sentence cannot be escaped.

All Ling Li could do was to strive for a mitigated and lighter punishment.

Therefore, when she made a defense, she specially selected a few points that were easy to break through and emphasized.

The same content, different emphasis, when it is presented in the court investigation for a while, it will make the judge pay special attention because of her preconceived impression, so as to achieve her goal of leniency.

Just read a key point, Ling Li paid great attention to the foothold of the accent, but suddenly saw the mobile phone in his hand, and the screen lit up. There are three big characters on the caller ID - Zhong Zhuowen.

Why is this time coming?

Her gaze shifted, her attention was interrupted, and she almost mispronounced it.

Although it was a big mistake, Ling Li was sweating, for fear that this case would make some waves again.

Because of her appearance in court, her mobile phone was adjusted to silent mode, and the phone did not ring or vibrate, but seeing that the phone kept coming and the screen was always on, it still made her feel a little anxious.

Afraid of being affected again, Ling Li read the reply, touched the mobile phone with one hand, and pressed the button to turn off.

A few seconds later, the mobile phone screen dimmed, and Zhong Zhuowen's three big characters finally disappeared from her eyes.

After the three-hour trial, there were no major accidents, but for the defense, there was a bad thing and a good thing.

The bad thing is that the defendant's performance in court is quite bad, when it is his turn to be questioned, he mutters a lot of words in his mouth, and he also loses control of his emotions and shouts injustice on the spot, basically, such behavior will make the judge think that the attitude of not repenting and admitting guilt is not good enough, and he will not consider leniency in this regard.

Ling Li couldn't help it, and retried the rules that should be paid attention to in court to the defendant many times before the trial, but he just didn't listen, and always thought that he was right, and she had no good way.

Fortunately, there was one thing he still listened to, and he didn't shout in court to go out to give the victim a good look.

The good thing seems to carry a little more weight - the victim is willing to accept the civil part of the settlement, issue an understanding agreement, and put forward a price that is also within the scope that the defendant's family is willing to bear.

If it can be negotiated, then it can basically be concluded that the punishment can be mitigated or commuted.

After talking to the victim's family about reconciliation, and communicating with the prosecutor and the judge, it was almost certain that there was no problem with commutation, and Ling Li breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling uncontrollably tired.

Three cases have been resolved, and there is only one left, and the time is set for court in a week.

There are a lot of trivial things to do in this very small case, I really don't know how Zhu Jinchuan gnawed down the thousands of pages of evidence in those big cases.

Lu Xiaoxiao can say that he didn't even want to bring an assistant before, if it weren't for the fact that the meeting with the felons basically required two lawyers, he would be like a lone wolf.

Including civil cases now, even if there are one or two assistants who help him sort out evidence or check legal provisions, when the court is held, he is often alone.

When will I be able to practice to the point where Zhu Jinchuan can handle any case alone, then I can be regarded as a teacher.

When I returned to the law firm from the court, it was already off work.

Zhu Jinchuan has basically stayed in the place these days, and this time is no exception.

When he saw Ling Li coming back in the office, he didn't get up, tilted his head and hooked his finger at her, as if he had something to say.