036 Trials and Public Opinion

Zhang Xulin shed tears and wiped it away with her hand behind her back: "Auntie, please, can you withdraw the complaint?" Going to jail would ruin my life. ”

"Then have you ever thought that your behavior has ruined Mu Yu's life a long time ago, Mu Yu is dead, she has no time anymore, when she was alive, even before the prosecution, you slandered Mu Yu on the Internet without guilt! Have you ever thought that you also ruined our family! Mu Yu's mother's voice suddenly rose.

Zhang Xulin shook her head: "No, it's not like this, it's netizens, it's netizens who killed her......"

"You too! Each and every one of you is an accomplice! ”

Zhang Xulin continued to pester, and her family ran over and took her away.

Mu Yu's mother also looked at the back of Zhang Xulin leaving, tears fell like rain, and suddenly said, "Lawyer Su, do you know? The relationship between Mu Yu and Xu Lin was very good, they have always been good friends, Mu Yu would tell Xu Lin everything, but she never thought that Xu Lin would suddenly stand up and slander her when Mu Yu was in the most difficult time, and even, after Mu Yu's death, she was still blatantly lying in court, she had no conscience at all! ”

Su Yu's heart was a little blocked, and he didn't say anything.

Su Yu and Lu Yuzhou returned to the law firm.

Huo Ran raised his eyes and glanced at the two, listened to the discussion between the two, squinted, and was noncommittal.

After a while, there was a bit of sarcasm on his lips: "There are many reasons, Mu Yu has a smooth journey, a good family background, a high education, and a good job, but Zhang Xulin is far inferior to her, it may be out of jealousy; The relationship between the two has always been very close, Zhang Xulin was able to substitute herself into a person who could write "Girl's Heart" in 2010, so it is also possible that she deceived people first, and finally even deceived herself, firmly believing that Mu Yu stole her creativity; There is also a possibility that someone spent money to let Zhang Xulin slander Mu Yu. ”

Su Yu was silent, it was really absurd.

Lu Yuzhou's mobile phone rang suddenly, he looked at it, it was an unfamiliar number, but as a lawyer, he often received unfamiliar numbers, so he didn't think much about it, and answered-

He pursed his lips, listened to the other man's words, and frowned slightly.

Walked out to the balcony.

After a while, I came back in.

Lu Yuzhou groaned, looked at Su Yu and Huo Ran, and said: "The case of infringement of the right to reputation that was supposed to be tried the day after tomorrow just now said that the lawyers of several websites wanted to settle. ”

Huo Ran said lightly: "Keep fighting, if you accept the settlement, I don't know how it will be discussed, not to mention that the third case will be hit." ”

"I think so too, but first ask Mu Yu's parents what they think."

Lu Yuzhou said and took out his mobile phone.

Su Yu frowned and glanced at Huo Ran: "The problem is that the victory of the case did not clear Mu Yu's name, and it is still discussed like that on the Internet." ”

Huo Ran glanced at her, he didn't care very much, he said lightly: "Normal." ”

He paused for a moment and then said, "Remember last year's sexual assault case?" The male subordinate said on Weibo that the male boss sexually assaulted him, in fact, the male subordinate did not provide any evidence, but he created enough momentum on the Internet, and the male boss's public relations response was too late. was labeled as a sexual assault, and even if he later sued his subordinates for defamation and was convicted, everyone only thought that the male boss was powerful and won the lawsuit. ”

Su Yu was silent for a while and said, "Could it be because most people don't know how the court is tried and why they won, so they feel that the power is the one who sways the verdict?" ”

However, Lu Yuzhou did not expect that Mu Yu's parents were willing to accept the settlement and withdraw the lawsuit.

On that day, Su Yu and Lu Yuzhou accompanied Mu Yu's parents to meet the heads of several websites, including many well-known portals and video websites.

Mu Yu's father said: "We are willing to withdraw the lawsuit, but there are conditions, each of your websites must publicly apologize to Mu Yu, admit to slandering Mu Yu for plagiarism without any valid evidence, and state that you filed your own lawsuit to withdraw the lawsuit, and Mu Yu's relatives did not ask for any monetary and material compensation." ”

The person in charge of the website agrees.

Lu Yuzhou still drafted the relevant treaties and asked them to sign them.

*

Back at the apartment, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.

Su Yu collapsed on the sofa and shouted, "Aunt Lin." ”

Aunt Lin wore slippers and heat-insulated gloves, and came out of the kitchen with the pork bone soup that had been boiled for a day, and she responded sweetly: "Come here, drink the soup, it's cold outside, Aunt Lin touches your hands to see if they're cold." ”

Aunt Lin shook Su Yu's hand, Su Yu suddenly sat up, hugged her, and rubbed it.

Aunt Lin was slightly stunned, then smiled, stroked Su Yu's hair, and did not speak.

Su Yu's head rested on her neck: "Aunt Lin, I miss you so much, and then when I hold you, I miss my mother very much." ”

Aunt Lin lowered her eyelashes, and her nose was a little sour: "Well, I miss her too." ”

"Every time I go out to work, I feel that the world is so complicated that I don't want to work anymore." Su Yu hung on Aunt Lin like a soft little animal.

"Okay, if you don't work, you don't work."

The curvature of Aunt Lin's lips curved.

No matter what Su Yu said, she followed.

"But if I don't work, my father wants me to marry, I don't want to marry Yan Ze, Yan Ze doesn't like me, I don't like him, how can two people be happy together?"

When Aunt Lin heard this, she pulled away Su Yu's body slightly and looked at her eyes: "Why do you think Yan Ze doesn't like you?" ”

Su Yu lowered his eyes, curled his lips and smiled: "It's nothing, Aunt Lin, you just need to know that I love you very much." ”

Aunt Lin was amused: "It's just your sweet mouth." ”

Su Yu suddenly remembered the unfamiliar courier before, and asked, "Aunt Lin, have you received any strange couriers at home recently?" ”

"No, I don't."

Aunt Lin glanced at the soup next to her and said, "Come, hurry up and drink the soup, I'll go put the bath water for you." ”

After boiling all day, it was particularly fresh and sweet, and when it entered the stomach, I only felt that the whole chest and abdomen were warm, dispelling the original cold and exhaustion.

SHE CLICKED ON THE MICROBLOG ON THE IPAD WHILE DRINKING, AND FOUND THAT SEVERAL WEBSITES HAD ISSUED STATEMENTS AS AGREED, WITH SINCERE WORDING, ADMITTING THAT THEY TOOK THE INITIATIVE TO ASK THE OTHER PARTY TO WITHDRAW THE LAWSUIT, THANKING MU YU'S PARENTS FOR THEIR TOLERANCE AND GENEROSITY, AND THEN EXPLAINED THE REASON FOR THE MATTER, CLAIMING THAT THEY FORWARDED IT AT WILL WITHOUT CAREFUL THINKING, AND MADE AN UNFORGIVABLE MISTAKE IN ORDER TO INCREASE THE POPULARITY.

When Su Yu was scrolling Weibo in the square, he also saw the Weibo posted by the girls who went to listen that day.

These girls are warm-hearted and kind, not extreme, they said: "That day, a few of our anti-plagiarism girls went to listen to the trial together, because the scene could not be recorded or anything, so we relied on our memories to restore the situation at that time." ”

First of all, Lazy Yun, her novels and Mu Yu's novels are very similar in terms of characters, character relationships, plots and outlines, and the way to identify from multiple angles is more reasonable than a single color palette, and it is not easy to misjudge, the color palette is only suitable for identifying copy-and-paste plagiarism. Moreover, Lazy Yun once claimed that she had never read Mu Yu's novel before writing the tassel biography, but Mu Yu's lawyer put up evidence - she used to like and imitate Mu Yu's novel. ”

"Then there is Mu Yu's high school friend Zhang Xulin, because Mu Yu's lawyer in court gave evidence that Mu Yu created "Girl's Heart" earlier than Zhang Xulin, so Zhang Xulin constituted a crime of defamation and is about to face prison."

"Several websites took the initiative to withdraw the lawsuit and sincerely apologized, and whether Mu Yu's novel was plagiarized or not, Mu Yu's parents have disclosed the appraisal of Mu Yu's "Legend of the Phoenix Chick" on Weibo, and we will also re-make a systematic judgment according to the specific nodes such as character design, plot and outline."

"Watching pirated versions is an act that harms the rights and interests of the author, and the same as plagiarists, it is harming the rights and interests of the author, so we have to understand how much Mu Feng hates reading pirated readers as a full-time author, even if Mu Feng scolds and shows off her wealth, it has nothing to do with whether she plagiarizes or not, character and plagiarism are two different things, and they should be separated from the theory, so I hope the girls can be rational and love you."

"Let's popularize science again, defamation is a criminal offense, and reputation infringement belongs to the civil category, why do several websites only sue for reputation infringement? Because the subject of the crime of defamation can only be a natural person, and the website is a legal person, the reason for only suing Zhang Xulin is not that she deliberately bullied Zhang Xulin for her lack of power and power. ”

"We will continue to insist on anti-plagiarism, but we must be rational anti-plagiarism, oppose overkill, when you see some plagiarism, please take a serious look, make a judgment, and then forward the comments; We are also against the same party, we are against plagiarism, not individuals, we can't hurt innocent authors in the name of anti-plagiarism, and before anything is determined, we start to scold plagiarism and follow the trend to abuse, even if the author is the person you hate; We also oppose double standards, such as large-scale copy-and-paste descriptive paragraphs, which insult plagiarism in authors you don't care about, and citations and references in authors you love. ”

"We are well aware of how difficult it is to use the law to fight plagiarism and protect rights, but we can't choose to give up the legal way because of the difficulties, and the progress of intellectual property law requires the efforts of every rational anti-plagiarist, only in this way can we better protect the original and encourage each other."

After reading it, Su Yu liked it, and turned off Weibo.

After thinking about it, I opened it again and shared this Weibo with Huo Ran's WeChat.

The mobile phone quieted down, Su Yu finished the soup, and went to take a bath, she was humming a song and playing with bubbles, and the mobile phone on the side suddenly vibrate.

There is information coming.

Su Yu wiped his hands and lit up the screen.

There is only one sentence: "A moral carnival has come to an end." ”

Cut.

Su Yu pursed his lips and smiled.

She swiped her phone again and saw that Xie Suixing's mother had launched a signature campaign on the Internet requesting Liu Muyang's death sentence, and the number of retweets had reached more than 200,000, and there were already nearly 200,000 signatures.

Su Yu's first thought was that Xie's mother wanted to use public opinion to interfere in the judiciary, and then remembered that some time ago, public opinion unanimously demanded Su Sheng's death penalty, and then thought that Mu Yu was forced to commit suicide by jumping off the building under the pressure of public opinion.

But public opinion also played a role in promoting the creation of the Megan Law and the Suwon Law to protect young children.

Public opinion is like this, a typical double-edged sword.

She thought about it, and still signed for Xie Suixing, Liu Muyang is suspected of intentional homicide and rape, and it is most likely that he will only be sentenced to life, but it is still too light.

Su Yu quit Weibo, opened the dialog box with Huo Ran, moved his fingers slightly, and said: "The relationship between public opinion and justice is really complicated. ”

There was silence for a while, and then the news came: "Don't care about the evaluation of public opinion, in the last case, you are a righteous lawyer, and in the next case, you are an accomplice of the wicked, the public does not care about procedural justice, they just want to vent their emotions for moral self-satisfaction." Most of the reasons for the emergence of public opinion are the defects of legal knowledge, the one-sided information obtained, the high sense of morality and the passionate indignation, and the trial only pays attention to the law and evidence, so public opinion and trial are two completely unrelated fields, and the trial needs independence, no matter how noisy public opinion is, the judge only needs to pay attention to the law and evidence in the court, and exclude the interference of public opinion. ”

Su Yu typed a line: "Xie Suixing's mother launched a signature campaign requesting the death penalty on the Internet." ”

Huo Ran: "Hmm. ”

Su Yu: "I signed it too." ”

“……”

"Do you think I'm pushing public opinion to interfere in the trial?"

Without waiting for Huo Ran to answer, she continued: "But I think that the law allows the public to express their thoughts in a legal way, and Xie Suixing's mother can launch a public opinion signature on the Internet to express her anger as a mother and never forgive the female murderer, which is her right, and it is the judge's legal obligation to ensure that the trial result is not affected by public opinion." ”

Huo Ran said in a calm tone: "Well, but this is just your ideal state, and on the one hand, you have incited public opinion, and on the other hand, you hope that the judge will not be affected and can judge independently, that is to say, you hope that the result is that public opinion will not affect the trial, so you have done useless work with public opinion?" The only role is to let the victim vent his emotions? ”

Su Yu: "......"

"What's more, you should know how big the negative impact of public opinion is, when he was not yet convicted, he wrongfully insulted Su Sheng; When things were unclear, he insulted, smeared and even forced Mu Yu to death; Perhaps public opinion is useful, for example, public opinion has promoted the criminalization of drunk driving and the creation of the Suyuan Law, that is, public opinion can promote legislation, rather than interfere with trials. ”

Huo Ran replied again: "You're just a lawyer, you can't change public opinion." ”

"Of course, if public opinion hurts your legitimate rights and interests, such as rumors, slander and insults, public opinion warfare is useless, the people are forgetful, and only by taking up the weapon of the law can you protect your interests to the greatest extent."

“…… Huo Ran, initiating a signature is the way given by law. The law allows the injured party to petition, so that he can pursue justice in his heart in this way. ”

Huo Ran still hasn't replied.

Su Yu has never been able to win Huo Ran.

In the past, when the two were in love, he would never let her in the discussion of legal opinions, and Lu Yuzhou often said: "Unconvinced, a man like Huo Ran can also have a girlfriend?" ”

She puffed out her cheeks, and her fingers continued to move: "Huo Ran, do you remember when you were in college, Teacher Sixiu told us what to avoid the most?" ”

Huo Ran: "? ”

Su Yu bent his eyes: "Good teacher, hehehe." ”

After Su Yu finished sending it, he laughed, turned off his mobile phone, and ignored Huo Ran.

It's better to him off.

To her disappointment, by the next morning, she turned on her fully charged phone, and there was no new message on WeChat, that is, Huo Ran did not reply to her.

Shh

Su Yu rolled over and covered his head with a pillow.