Section 665 Morality triumphs over law
This was a trial of Zhang Zuolin's smuggling case, but the barrister did not defend Zhang Zuolin, or even the smuggling case itself, but kept staring at the legitimacy of the smuggling to defend it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
In his final statement, he said: "Yes, there is a lot of smuggling in the border areas. But why is there no such smuggling at our border with North Korea? We don't have this kind of smuggling on our border with the Russian Empire? Only on the northwestern borders, on the border with Soviet Russia, is full of such smuggling. Why?
Because reasonable. Because the Russians forbade their people to trade freely with our people, but if their people did not trade, they would have no food to eat, and even the seeds were collected by their government, so they had no reason to try to get food from their neighbors? Do they deserve to starve to death?
Have you ever been hungry, I think some of you may remember that in the Xinhai year, the Shanghai Youth Gang went around robbing houses and houses, saying that it was revolution, and you couldn't buy food at that time, so you may have been hungry for a few days. But can you understand the situation where you don't starve for a few days, but starve to death, without seeing any hope.
I still have a lot of pictures here, and I haven't shown them to you because I'm afraid you'll have nightmares at night. Ancient books often say, 'The world is hungry, and the child eats it', I didn't believe it in the past, because the tiger poison doesn't eat the child, but now I believe it, because many ordinary people in Soviet Russia don't eat the child, but directly eat their own children. ”
Saying this, the barrister choked up and gasped for a long time before finally raising his head and glaring at everyone with red eyes.
"Tell me, what are we doing here, trying these smugglers who deliver food to the starving dead? If they are found guilty today, then I dare say that each and every one of us is guilty. Honorable jury, you are noble, you are the council of the court, you are jealous and hateful, and you have no mercy for evil. But what I want to say is that if today we convict them, this is not justice of justice, it is a shame of the system of death law, it is a shame for each of us. The blood of the Russian people will be soaked in such a verdict. ”
The prosecution lawyer tried to interrupt the barrister many times and wanted to refute it, but suddenly he lost his courage, and he was convinced.
In the end, the young prosecution lawyer made only a very monotonous and feeble statement, and he only asked the judge and the jury to base their verdict on the basis of the law and to take into account the dignity of the law.
In the face of the barrister hired by the Zhang family at a high price, he has no experience, which is not to blame. This is the legal system of the free world, where the rich can buy the most justice. Because no experienced lawyer wants to stay in the justice system with a very average salary. They prefer to work in a law firm, with a high salary, to serve the richest people.
In the resolution hall, the judge summoned the jury, explained the letter of the law to them in detail, guided them professionally, and informed them of the clear provisions of the law on smuggling.
However, in the end, the jury still unanimously ruled that this time the Northwest smuggling case was not guilty, and they had the right to decide guilty or not guilty, but it was the judge's power to convict.
But they were acquitted, and the judge had no way to sentence him.
The judge can rule that the jury's verdict is clearly contrary to the law, so as not to accept the jury's verdict and re-select the jury, but this requires courage, and it is obvious that this judge lacks such courage, if he had come from the revolutionary era, a judge like Wu Tingfang, he might have done this, but he is a judge who grew up in peacetime, and he is afraid of being condemned by society and condemned by his conscience, so he does not dare.
In the end, the verdict found that Zhang Zuolin's smuggling case was not established, not only was he not guilty, but the other smugglers were also released in court.
This incident has caused widespread controversy in society, and such a verdict may even lead to a terrible result, that is, smuggling on the northwest border is legal, and anyone can go wherever to smuggle with the Russians, as long as they are not caught by the Russians, they are innocent.
At the same time, the rigor of China's judicial system has been questioned, whether it is the people's rebellion or the letter of the law to determine whether a person is guilty or not. If the letter of the law conflicts with the people's cognition, which one shall prevail?
These questions are thought-provoking, and they were also asked in front of Yang Chao.
Yang Chao was in Yingkou at this time, and he was also adjudicating a lawsuit, not a legal lawsuit, but an administrative issue.
The reason is the problem of the falling dragon in Yingkou, last year there was a strange dragon here, first alive, then dead, when the local people were alive, they were noticed by the media after their death, and the result caused a dispute, Fengtian wanted to pull the rotten keel back to Shenyang to establish a museum exhibition, but Yingkou did not agree, they wanted to build their own museum, Fengtian thought they were a provincial city, and brought the dragon to Fengtian for exhibition, which could attract people to watch, Yingkou also wanted to use this dragon to increase their popularity.
So the dispute continued, so Yang Chao decided to reconcile in person.
But they have been arguing for more than a day or two, and why Yang Chao came to reconcile at this time, and why he reconciled at the time of the trial of Zhang Zuolin's smuggling case, of course, is not a coincidence, but intentional.
Yingkou falling dragon is a hot thing, attracting widespread social attention, previously by Zhang Zuolin's big case to take away some eyeballs, Yang Chao came here at this time, and increased the influence of the falling dragon incident, so as to divert the people's attention from the Shanghai trial.
However, under the freedom of speech, the media has their own hobbies, the people also have their own concerns, and more importantly, they are both concerned, so Zhang Zuolin's major case cannot be completely ignored, and it is still a hot issue.
So when the verdict came out, he immediately remembered to ask Yang Chao this question.
This problem, Yang Chao knows very well what is going on, he did not touch the judiciary, did not use illegal means to interfere with or influence the behavior of judges and lawyers, and it is likely that he will not be able to influence it, Wang Chonghui and those people took 20 years to build a relatively independent judicial system, Yang Chao is not able to intervene at all, rubbing his face, it is very likely to be slapped in the face.
So he didn't bother himself, he just sent his own team of lawyers to secretly give legal guidance to some people, telling them what to say and what not to say, but in the end, he still had to cooperate with them, or to say that they wanted to share some responsibility for Zhang Zuolin, if they couldn't do it, Zhang Zuolin would still be difficult to save, so Yang Chao asked Zhang Zuolin if Yang Yuting was reliable, if Yang Yuting was reliable, those old guys were naturally more reliable.
In the end, it was the barrister named Zhang Yang who was more powerful, and successfully moved the jury with emotion, put the jury on the balance of morality, and kidnapped the judiciary with morality.
Yang Chao's evaluation is also more objective, and he remembers: "This is just morality, which defeats the law." (To be continued.) )