224 trials

The case was heard in the midst of all the attention. On the day of the trial, the wind and the sun were beautiful, neither hot nor cold, and when I heard that the "Australians" were going to question the case, the people from all over the country and the workers and clerks who did not go to work came to the merchant house one after another. The ground floor here is the East City Summary Court, where the case will be heard. The courtroom is small and modern, but it has only 60 seats in the auditorium. For this reason, Li Mei sent people to set up a number of benches in the corridor in the middle and back rows as additional seats.

Even so, from early in the morning, more and more people came, according to Mu Min's estimates, at 8 o'clock in the morning, more than 1,000 people gathered at the entrance of the merchant hall to prepare for the trial, and there were still people coming. It is expected that three thousand people will eventually gather near the merchant hall.

There are only a handful of people who can get a seat, and all tickets are available for free at the entrance of the mall, but the person who picks up the ticket must show his ID and leave his number. In order to prevent any movement, according to Mu Min's request, the garrison company and battalion headquarters in Dongshi were all put on alert. The personnel of the police station have canceled their shifts and are all on duty. The Ministry of Military Industry prepared a large number of pepper tear gas canisters for the assault of the garrison company, and the internal and external personnel of the General Administration of Political Security were also dispatched to mingle in the crowd as plainclothes personnel.

The Emergency Response Headquarters for Emergency Prevention is located on the second floor of the Dongshi Police Station, with a special observation room. The main heads of the judiciary, the police, the Ministry of Political Security and the army are here, ready to respond to emergencies at any time.

The trial had not yet begun, but an uneasy atmosphere began to permeate among the elders of the headquarters of the countermeasures that were slowly gathering in the streets. People seem to be coming too much! On the East Avenue at the entrance of the merchant house and the police station, the crowd has already become crowded, and the police have to start intervening to maintain order.

Most of the elders of the countermeasure headquarters had never seen such a battle, and they could no longer sit on rattan sofas and talk about whether the new marriage law was monogamous, polygamous, or polyandry as they had just done. Li Mei was particularly uneasy, for fear that a stir would make a mess of the market. On that day, the army and navy group fight caused by sailors beating their wives on the street caused a lot of property and business in Dongshi. Later, the army and navy compensated for the damage, but it still made the business jīng's heart beat - the people who did business were most afraid of making trouble. The first thing that suffers is the store.

"Do you want to let the garrison camp enter the field to maintain order, will so many people cause a stampede?"

"No need, it's enough for the garrison battalion to stand outside," Mu Min was confident, "If they stand there in uniform and straight, it can play a great deterrent role, you can rest assured, this scene is normal at present." There is no sign of any loss of control. ”

"There are so many people, there will not be more than 100 tickets, what about the others?" The vest was a little worried.

"It's okay, do we have a cable broadcast, it's a live broadcast."

In order to ensure that as many people as possible could hear the trial, Tintin had microphones installed in the courtroom and the lines were connected to the original broadcast network system set up on the streets of Dongshi, so that the entire trial could be heard even on the streets. In order to make it easier for the naturalized people to understand the background information, Zhang Yu was also specially called to give a broadcast explanation.

The crowd was shunned to the loudspeakers all over the street, where they could stand and listen to the whole trial, and the slightly wealthy ones occupied teahouses, restaurants, and small tea and rice shops according to their own financial capabilities, brewed a pot of tea in them, and occupied a seat to listen to the excitement comfortably. As for the people who sit or stand on the streets, sidewalks and wastelands, there are also hawkers who take care of them.

"Cigarettes! Melon seeds! Dried sweet potatoes! ”

"Soda! Kombucha! ”

"Bopu's dried octopus, you want to eat the second bite after one bite!"

"Rent a small stool! Listen to the trial comfortably! ”

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Several police officers checked the tickets of each person with a ticket and their ID cards at the entrance of the courtroom, making sure that each seat was real name. With 30 minutes to go, the courtroom was already packed, and many people were sweating profusely. The windows were all open, one for ventilation and the other to prevent those who climbed on the windows from smashing the glass. A row of police cadets transferred from the police training course stood side by side at the courtroom wall, staring at the overcrowded auditorium.

It was nearly 9 o'clock when a police officer shouted, "Please be quiet!" Put out the smoke! Rise! With the sound of a stool dragging down, the presiding judge allowed permission to enter through a door behind the seat.

Permission to wear the latest custom-made robe, the robe is a British style, pure black chest with a fierce seated statue, wearing a black-Song Dynasty style long legs, looking a combination of Chinese and Western, majestic. The people were immediately impressed, and some even knelt down with weak legs and feet.

Xu Xu held a huge black-leather codex with the words "Laws of the Song Dynasty" written in gilded letters, which fully demonstrated the dignity of the law represented by the code he held.

Xu Xu ascended to the highest judge's seat with a solemn demeanor, and looked at everyone looking at him, and felt a little proud in his heart - does it feel good to be a judge? It's just that the shaking sensation of this strange long leg is a little uncomfortable. Permission picks up the gavel and strikes down: then silences the courtroom with a long bass: "Now the court is open!" ”

The hapless young man was then brought into the courtroom by the police, where he stood in the defendant's seat and was identified as usual. The first round of discussion rang out from the auditorium. Everyone was surprised that the "Jiān couple" did not appear together in this case. And the most important "Benfu" did not appear. Many people were even disappointed - knowing that the trial of the Tongjin case had always been entertaining for the people. Now there is only one "jiānfu" in the scene.

In accordance with the proceeding, as a rule, the District Attorney is the first to speak. An Xi was a little trembling when he stood up from the prosecutor's seat - probably nervous. Xu Xu knew that this person's professional level could be called "indiscriminate", and many basic laws could not be memorized, and several people in the Law Society said that this person claimed to be a law degree holder, but no matter how you look at it, he was a law undergraduate student who did not work hard. If it weren't for the fact that he was running around in front of the saddle for the vest and behind the horse, and made a great contribution to the Law Society, the Law Society probably wouldn't have accepted this person at all.

Although he read according to the script, An Xi's speech still stumbled. He first explained the entire course of the case, including the facts of the confession, and presented the transcripts of the confessions of each party. The transcript was read out by the secretary one by one. The first is the suspect's own confession. At first, people thought the interrogation was a bit boring, but after hearing the detailed transcript of the confession, many people became interested again - this kind of intimate content is always very attractive. Zuihou, An Xi presented the client's own confession, admitting that there was an act of communication between her and the suspect.

He then asked the suspect if he had any objections to his statement that had just been read.

The suspect said no, and then the prosecution began to call witnesses, including a good villager in Meiyang Village, a colleague who worked in the shop. They all gave relevant circumstantial evidence.

“…… This concludes my statement, Your Excellency Judge Xiexie. An Xi wiped the sweat from his forehead, although he just read out the prosecution materials step by step, he still made him nervous.

An adjournment was then granted - it was almost noon. The people in the auditorium began to disperse, and many people were talking about it, but there were not many people discussing the case itself, but the most discussed was the entire trial process, including a large number of confessions, testimonies, and circumstantial evidence, which seemed to be much more elegant than the case questioned in the lobby in the past -- there were no vicious servants, and there were no various scenes of exciting torture and torture. The absence of these cases is somewhat boring, but the abundance of detailed descriptions of confessions and testimony arouses additional interest.

Li Mei had already asked the cooperative restaurant to make a large number of boxed lunches to sell around the commercial hall, which was quickly sold out, making the cooperative make a small profit, and of course, the business of the surrounding restaurant restaurants was also very popular.

The court session resumed at 12 o'clock - in the eyes of the Traveling Group, the lunch break in the old time and space was time-consuming. In their daily routine, the lunch break ends at 12 o'clock.

The case is actually over here, but the defense process still has to go through again. This is also the place where the people who hear the trial are most interested, and it is really the first time that people are allowed to defend the prisoners. In the past, it was only a question of whether the prisoner admitted it or not. So everyone wants to see what the defense of Australians means.

What Ji Shin did was to ask for a lighter sentence - after all, the suspect had already pleaded guilty, and the case was already decided, so he didn't need to make any other gimmicks.

He focused on the suspect's family situation and spoke of the family's misfortune - of course, the cause of the death of the two brothers was concealed, so as not to make an unpleasant impression of industrialization. Then he called a number of witnesses, showing that the suspect had always been "honest and duty" in the village, and had not done anything hurtful, let alone molested women. This time, the "destruction of military marriage" was mainly because the family was poor and could not afford to marry a wife, and the person was young, so he accidentally lost his footing. And he pointed out that in the circumstances that form the Tongjiān relationship, the NV parties also have certain responsibilities.

Ji Shin's gentle rhetoric and well-founded eloquence made him ten times better in court than An Xi's - the atmosphere in the auditorium clearly showed great pity for the suspect. I think that if this case were to be decided by a jury, his performance alone would be enough to impress the jury.