Jiang Hanting's eyes were shining, his lips were tight, and he explained: "The law enforcement recorder generally needs to upload the information to the bureau's system every day, but I was on a business trip to run the case some time ago, and it was blocked, the information communication was inconvenient, and the network was not developed, so I couldn't upload the information in time, and the bureau asked me to upload the relevant information in time within 24 hours of returning to the public security bureau." On the day of the arrest of Zhou Zhengu, I just came back from other places, and I originally planned to go to the bureau to upload the information of the law enforcement recorder, but I happened to receive a call from the masses to report that the crowd was gathering to take drugs, so I hurriedly followed the police, and did not check the situation of the recorder in time. ”

Huo Ran added: "The camera at the door of the bar can only capture the footage of Zhou Zhengu being subdued when he escaped for the first time, and when he was subdued for the second escape, he was already out of the camera area. ”

Su Yu pursed his lips, frowned slightly, and inevitably sighed in his heart, this is also ...... What a coincidence, right?

Huo Ran's gaze moved away from the case file, and his eyes were gloomy: "Zhou Zhengu's autopsy report has also come out." ”

"What was the cause of death?" Jiang Hanting asked.

"Zhou Zhengu's death appraisal opinion is: gastric contents were amided into the respiratory tract and caused suffocation."

Jiang Hanting has worked on the front line for many years and has experienced many cases, so he naturally knows what conditions will cause stomach contents to enter the respiratory tract and suffocate.

Su Yu directly read out the appraisal opinion of the autopsy report: "The expert's explanation is that the stomach contents are vomit, and under normal circumstances, people generally do not have vomit into the respiratory tract by mistake, because the human epiglottis reflex is very sensitive, and when the vomit enters the respiratory tract, it will produce a violent coughing reaction, and it will naturally not be stuck and cause suffocation." ”

"However, if a person has a head injury, drunkenness, etc., the epiglottis reflex will be less sensitive, and it is easy to cause vomit to enter the respiratory tract and suffocate. In addition, if a person is beaten by external forces, it will also cause vomit to be unable to be discharged in time and suffocate. ”

Jiang Hanting's face was expressionless, he understood the connotation of his words, he was silent for a while, and said calmly: "I promise, the coercive measures I took against Zhou Zhengu are all legal. ”

"For your guarantee to be valid in court, it must be evidenced." Huo Ran's eyebrows moved slightly, "Another point, Zhou Zhengu's autopsy report shows that no drug components have been detected in his blood. ”

Jiang Hanting's cold black eyes shrank heavily, and his jaw tensed slightly.

Zhou Zhengu didn't take drugs, so why didn't he cooperate with the urine test that night? Running away many times?

"Now the prosecution can completely defeat you morally and trample you under the feet legally." Huo Ran said lightly, "Public opinion has also pointed to you, and from the attack on your public opinion to the doubt of the credibility of the police, you have worked in the Public Security Bureau for so many years, I believe you also understand the importance of credibility." If the punishment imposed on you by the police is not satisfactory to the public, the police will not be able to protect themselves. ”

There was a hint of sarcasm in his tone.

Jiang Hanting leaned back on the back of the chair, his expression was cold, his outline was cold and hard, and his thin lips were slightly pursed.

Huo Ran looked at him: "The public is easy to forget, but the media is not, your case will not be officially opened until the year later, and the public may gradually forget about you under the impact of information, but you only need the media to send a draft, do a special topic, and retouch it slightly, and it will soon provoke the public to crusade against you." Legal professionals have been calling for an independent judiciary, but in practice, public opinion can influence trials to a greater or lesser extent, regardless of whether these influences come from pressure from higher authorities or from the media. ”

Jiang Hanting gritted his teeth and didn't say a word.

Huo Ran saw that Jiang Hanting was silent, and he didn't say anything more, he said these words, just to fulfill the obligation to inform as a qualified lawyer, and a qualified lawyer would not directly guarantee the result of the trial in front of the court.

*

On the eve of the trial, Huo Ran was usually busy until the early hours of the morning, Su Yu poured two cups of coffee and put them lightly on his table, Huo Ran didn't look up, he didn't speak for a long time, his voice was a little hoarse: "It's hard." ”

His desk was full of open files and markings, and his desktop computer had a glossy sheen that softened his silhouette and cast a shallow shadow of the frame beneath his glasses.

As he spoke, he tore off a post-it note, recording something in a fluttering manner, and his thin lips pursed into a straight line solemnly.

Su Yu returned to his desk.

As a paralegal, she can play the greatest role in the early stage of data sorting and collection, tonight, Huo Ran did not assign her another task, she lowered her head, and decided to sort out the case again, focusing on the written information of the prosecution's evidence.

Just thinking about it, her phone screen lit up, and someone sent a WeChat message.

Su Yu clicked on.

Lin Xianyu: "Haven't you gotten off work yet?" ”

Su Yu: "Well, I'm still preparing for tomorrow's case." ”

Lin Xianyu: "I really want to complain about two sentences...... It is really not easy for public officials to make up some articles anonymously on the Internet, such as asking for help, but the police don't care, and leave a sarcastic message - your country wants to play, and then combine self-media and marketing accounts, and you can set off a wave of public opinion. ”

Su Yu lowered his eyes, yes, but in the final analysis, it is still a matter of credibility.

Lin Xianyu continued: "However, in Jiang Hanting's case, the prosecution's evidence is very sufficient, and there is a problem with the law enforcement recorder again...... I'm just worried that if I blindly deny it, I will not only be found guilty, but also sentenced to a heavy sentence. ”

Su Yu pursed his lips, not knowing what to say, and made a hugging expression.

*

The next day, Huo Ran's eyes were slightly red, and when he arrived at the courtroom, Su Yu went to the surrounding area first and brought him a cup of coffee.

Huo Ran took the coffee, his slender fingers around the cup, and the heat warmed his hands.

He tilted his head and took a sip.

Su Yu smiled, took out a Thai nose stick from his bag, and said, "Smell this, refresh your mind." ”

Huo Ran glanced at his nose and smiled.

Su Yu has always had the habit of using a nose stick, and when she was in college, she needed this to calm down before every exam.

As soon as the eyes of the two met, the next second, Su Yu gently hugged him and quickly let go.

She laughed: "Come on!" ”

"Hmm."

As he was talking, Qin Yu and another female prosecutor came to him, Qin Yu saw Su Yu at a glance, he pursed his lips and shouted, "Su Yu." ”

Su Yu bent his eyebrows: "Qin Jian." Her eyes paused on the prosecutor next to Qin Yu, this was Prosecutor Lin who was in charge of Jiang Hanting's case, and she greeted: "Lin Inspector." ”

Prosecutor Lin didn't smile, but nodded lightly: "Hello." After speaking, she looked at Huo Ran, her expression was flat: "Is Lawyer Huo still going to continue to defend his innocence today?" ”

Huo Ran didn't answer directly, his eyebrows were indifferent: "Lin Jian, good morning." ”

Lin Jian curled his lips, and the arc was very shallow: "Lawyer Huo, the procuratorate's prosecution is based on sufficient evidence, and sometimes, you don't have to fight with the court and the procuratorate all the time in order to make a reputation." If you have to go to court like this and plead not guilty, it will not benefit your client at all. ”

Huo Ran smiled and didn't say anything more.

*

The auditorium was almost full, and Jiang Hanting's mother, Jian Yun, sat in the first row, she looked worried, and looked intently at Jiang Hanting who was sitting in the defendant's seat. Across the aisle, sitting was the father of the victim Zhou Zhengu, with a straight face, his back straight, his hands tightly clenched, and placed on his knees.

Jiang Hanting looked at his mother silently, and then withdrew his gaze, and on his left and right sides, there was a bailiff sitting on each side.

Huo Ran's defense seat was behind Jiang Hanting, and Su Yu sat next to Huo Ran, and she was responsible for recording without speaking.

When the judge entered, everyone in the courtroom stood up respectfully before sitting down and the court officially opened.

Prosecutor Lin first interrogated Jiang Hanting.

"Why did you arrest the victim Zhou Zhengu?"

Jiang Hanting pursed his thin lips: "Because the bureau received an anonymous report call, saying that it was a crowd of people taking drugs in multiple boxes of the LAN bar, so we sent the police, and the box where Zhou Zhengu was located also had the phenomenon of crowds taking drugs." ”

"But Zhou Zhengu's autopsy report shows that he did not take drugs on the night of the crime."

There was a faint sigh in the auditorium: "I didn't take drugs...... That's still dead...... It was enough to be wronged, but now it's even more ......"

Jiang Hanting was very calm: "We were not sure whether he was involved in drug use at the time, and the reason why we arrested him was precisely this, Zhou Zhengu did not cooperate with the urine test, so we could only take him back to the Public Security Bureau for testing first." ”

Prosecutor Lin stared at him and smiled: "How did you control him?" ”

"Use your hand to clasp Zhou Zhengu's hand."

"No handcuffs?"

"No, there are not enough handcuffs, and some people are not handcuffed."

"When Zhou Zhengu first tried to escape, how many of you controlled him together?"

"I'm alone."

Prosecutor Lin spoke a little faster: "Are you wearing a law enforcement camera?" ”

"Wear it."

"Then did you know that the body camera recording was interrupted?"

Jiang Hanting's dark eyes were fixed: "I just learned yesterday that I haven't been in contact with the law enforcement recorder since the incident." ”

"The law enforcement recorder is because the memory is too full, can not be stored, resulting in the interruption of recording, before you go to the police, in accordance with the regulations, the law enforcement recorder is checked?"

Jiang Hanting fell silent, his Adam's apple moved, and he didn't speak.

Prosecutor Lin repeated, and then said, "So, you didn't check the recorder, did you?" ”

Jiang Hanting still didn't speak.

Su Yu's hand that was recording paused, and then continued to memorize key phrases.

Prosecutor Lin's lips were a little curvature, she looked at the file again, and asked: "On the day of the crime, you just came back from a business trip, and the bureau would not have arranged for you to go to the police, so why did you participate in the operation that night?" ”

Jiang Hanting's throat moved slightly: "Because there are not enough people in the bureau." ”

Prosecutor Lin went back to the coercive measures taken against Jiang Hanting against Zhou Zhengu: "How did you suppress Zhou Zhengu at that time?" ”

Jiang Hanting's chin was slightly retracted: "The grappling style is in line with the regulations." ”

Prosecutor Lin nodded, turned his head to look at the presiding judge, and said, "Apply to show the prosecution's evidence No. 20." ”

Everyone looked up and looked at the projection cloth, on which a video was played, and Prosecutor Lin explained: "This is a clip recorded by a law enforcement recorder. ”

The camera shook for a while, and the picture was a little chaotic, but it was vaguely clear that the person who was caught was Zhou Zhengu, Zhou Zhengu's face was very bad, his whole body was weak, he didn't know why he suddenly wanted to run away and struggled, but soon, Jiang Hanting reacted, a pair of powerful long legs kicked Zhou Zhengu's knee at once, and he buckled with one hand, and as soon as the picture turned, Zhou Zhengu was suppressed on the cold floor.

Jiang Hanting's knees pressed against his back.