Chapter 60: Successful Defense
Sima Qiqi saw that Yan Jialing's face was already pale at this time, and ignored Yan Jialing and continued: "Your Excellency, it can be seen from the photos that the witness was wearing a camel-colored dress on the night of the crime, witness, then how do you say that you were wearing the current dress on the night of the crime, did you kill someone so you destroyed the previous dress, and then made a false confession to mislead the court." ”
At this time, the prosecutor immediately stood up and said: "Your Excellency, I object, the defense believes that the witness is lying on the grounds that the color of the witness's clothes is different, but it can be seen from the photo that the whole style is the same as the clothes that the witness is wearing now, except for the color, and such evidence is unreliable." ”
Sima Qiqi retorted: "Your Excellency, as a successful lady, the witness should be very careful about what she wears, and it is impossible to remember a piece of clothing wrongly. The witness asked you to explain why you were mistaken. ”
Yan Jialing thought for a while and replied anxiously: "Ah, I remember, I wore the camel-colored dress I wore to go out to dinner, but during the dinner, my clothes were stained with red wine juice, and the red wine was too difficult to wash, so I changed it when I got home, and then I heard the news that my mother was killed, and I forgot it for a while." ”
Sima Qiqi said with a smile: "Stained with red wine, such a coincidence, the deceased also spilled the red wine when he died, what about the stained clothes of yours, witness?" Yan Jialing thought for a while and said, "Throw it away." ”
When Sima Qiqi heard this, he was very surprised and asked, "Thousands of dollars of clothes were thrown away because they were stained with red wine?" ”
Yan Jialing said disdainfully: "Thousands are nothing, I am the executive director of our company, thousands of clothes are not expensive for me at all, and I have another one that is exactly the same, that is, the one on my body, but the color is different." So I don't think there's anything wrong with throwing it away. ”
Sima Qi nodded and said, "Yes, red wine imprints are difficult to wash." So, Ms. Yan Jialing, what about your brooch? ”
Hearing this, Yan Jialing raised her head suddenly, and her expression was very flustered. At this time, the prosecutor stood up and retorted: "Your Excellency, I object, the defense lawyer has been asking irrelevant questions in an attempt to delay time and waste court resources. ”
Sima Qiqi said slowly: "Your Excellency, there are currently two suspects, one is my client, and the other is a witness. The witness was wearing another piece of clothing at the dinner, but that dress was so coincidentally stained with red wine juice that since the clothes were thrown away, the brooch should not have been thrown away. In order to verify who is the real culprit, I would like to ask witnesses to submit brooches for verification. ”
At this point, the prosecutor stood up and said, "Your Excellency, I object to the defense's provisional application for evidence. ”
After speaking, he glanced at Sima Qiqi, Sima Qiqi stood up and said, "Your Excellency, the verification report of the brooch will only be used as auxiliary evidence. ”
The judge nodded helplessly, took a pen and wrote it down on a piece of paper. Sima Qiqi looked at Yan Jialing and asked, "Witness, you won't throw away the brooch too, this brooch is a commemorative version, but you can't buy it with money!" And this material is easy to clean off when stained with red wine! ”
Yan Jialing frowned when she heard Sima Qiqi say this, sighed and said, "At my house." ”
Sima Qiqi said to the judge: "Your Excellency, the defense requests the relevant departments to collect evidence immediately. ”
The judge nodded in agreement, and when the bailiff took Yan Jialing's brooch back, Sima Qiqi said slowly: "Your Excellency, I have requested that the brooch be verified, and due to the need for time, I request that the trial be postponed to the next Monday again." ”
The judge took notes and said slowly: "This court has approved the adjournment of this case to 9:30 a.m. next Monday." ”
Time passed quickly, and Tian Si's case was reopened.
Sima Qiqi picked up the verification report and said to the judge: "Your Excellency, according to the verification of the surface of the brooch by the testing agency, it was found that the surface of the brooch was stained with red wine, and the composition was the same as that of the deceased. ”
The prosecutor stood up and said, "Your Excellency, I object, the witness said before that he went out to dinner on the night of the crime and drank the same wine, which is not enough evidence to prove that the witness is the murderer. ”
Sima Qiqi seemed to have thought that the prosecutor would object to this, and said with a smile: "Your Excellency, the testing institute also found other substances on the brooch, that is, the cashmere hair on the shawl that killed the deceased. ”
The prosecutor stood up and said, "Your Excellency, it is impossible for a different cashmere to prove that the witness is the murderer, and there are many cashmere clothes now. ”
Sima Qiqi smiled and said, "But a shawl of Shatush is very rare. ”
The judge suddenly stopped his pen, raised his head and asked, "Defense lawyer, what is Shatush?" ”
Sima Qiqi said: "Your Excellency, it is Tibetan antelope wool. The judge nodded and took notes.
Sima Qiqi looked at the prosecutor and said: "Red wine, Shatush wool, according to the witness's previous confession, she only heard her brother, Mr. Yan Zhuangwei, tell her the news of her mother's murder after changing her clothes, that is, from beginning to end, you have not been in contact with your mother at all, where did that cashmere hair come from?" ”
Yan Jialing thought about it and hurriedly said, "Maybe I was in contact with my mother before......"
Sima Qiqi said slowly: "According to the confession you made at the police station, your mother has not worn that shawl since she suffered a stroke. ”
As he spoke, he threw the photocopy of his confession heavily on the table. Yan Jialing didn't speak anymore, and Sima Qiqi didn't speak and sat down slowly. At the end of the second trial, the result was as Sima Qiqi expected, the brooch became the key evidence, and Tian Si was acquitted. Sima Qiqi walked out, took a deep breath, looked at C.K., and smiled with satisfaction.
After the end of the second trial of Tian Si's case for a while, C.K was swiping his mobile phone in the office that day, and suddenly looked at a piece of news and came to Sima Qiqi's office with a shout.
Sima Qiqi looked up at C.K's appearance and hurriedly asked, "What happened, your stock fell?" ”
C.K gasped, straightened it out, and retorted: "Don't talk nonsense, my stock is good, it can rise at any time, and I have pocket money at any time." ”
Sima Qiqi asked, "What the hell is going on?" ”
C.K reacted at this time and said: "I was interrupted by you, Yan Jialing has a trial today, how do you think Yan Jialing will judge?" ”
Sima Qiqi leaned back in the chair and said slowly: "Yan Jialing will definitely find another big case, and that big case will definitely be defended on the charge of manslaughter." ”
C.K held his chin and said suspiciously, "This manslaughter is still an excuse." ”
Sima Qiqi tilted her head and thought for a while and said: "Actually, this is not an excuse, Yan Jialing has been so strictly managed by Yan Su since she was a child, and even Yan Su interfered in love, and now she is not married, and she is dedicated to working for the company. ”
C.K clapped his hands and said, "Ah, then this Yan Jialing is quite lucky, and she will only be sentenced to seven years." ”
Sima Qiqi shook his head and said, "More than that." C.K's eyes widened and he asked suspiciously, "Isn't the maximum sentence for manslaughter to seven years in prison, and can it be more than that?" ”
Sima Qiqi fiddled with her nails and said slowly: "She made a false confession before, and I don't know if she is still guilty of instigating others to make false confessions." The maximum penalty for the crime of obstructing the course of justice is 20 years. ”
C.K opened his mouth wide, and it took a long time to squeeze out a sentence: "What, this is a heavier sentence for a false confession than a direct murder." ”
Sima Qiqi said with contempt: "If you kill and confess to murder, the workload of the police and law enforcement will be less." If you tell a lie, it will interfere with the direction of the police investigation and waste public resources. ”
C.K nodded and exclaimed, "Wow, I can't imagine that it's such a big sin to lie." ”
Sima Qiqi smiled and said, "So, you are still honest." ”
C.K waved his hand and said, "Cut, I'm an honest person and never lie." ”
Sima Qiqi looked at C.K and asked, "Really?" ”
C.K thought for a moment and said hesitantly, "Let's talk about it once in a while!" ”
The two were chatting in the office, when Xiao Yan came to the office and saw that C.K and Sima Qiqi were both saying, "That Ms. Tian Si is here and says that I want to thank you." ”
C.K and Sima Qiqi came to the conference room and saw Tian Si with a basket of fruits, Tian Si immediately smiled and said when he saw the two of them: "Mr. Hao, lawyer Sima, this basket of fruits is a gift from me." Thank you so much for helping me this time. ”
Sima Qiqi hurriedly waved his hand, and C.K immediately took the fruit basket, unceremoniously took down a banana, and said while eating: "You're welcome, this is what Lawyer Sima should do." ”
After eating one, he picked up an orange and peeled it and ate it, ate a few petals and praised: "Ah, Ms. Tian, your orange is so sweet, where did you buy it?" ”
Sima Qiqi looked at C.K with disdain, then looked at Tian Si and said, "Ms. Tian, in fact, you don't have to be so polite, I didn't say it, I didn't want the cases I handled to have no grievances." ”
Tian Si nodded and said, "I'm really sorry, Lawyer Sima, I'm really sorry for letting you tell you about your father." ”
Sima Qiqi was about to say something, C.K said while eating oranges: "Oh, Ms. Tian, you think too much, that's what Lawyer Sima said when he wanted you to appeal." ”
Tian Si looked at Sima Qiqi in surprise, Sima Qiqi smiled embarrassedly, and said embarrassedly: "That, I'm really embarrassed, I didn't listen to any persuasion I tried to persuade you at that time, so I could only tell a lie and let you appeal." ”
Tian Si was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "It's okay, Lawyer Sima, your heart is good." Don't worry, I won't tell it, it's our secret. ”
Tian Si continued: "That, I want to ask, how will the three sisters and brothers of the Yan family judge?" ”
C.K clapped his hands and said, "Ms. Tian, you are quite humane, and you still care about those three guys." ”
Sima Qiqi replied slowly: "Yan Jialing's manslaughter is certain, after all, her experience from childhood to adulthood is inseparable from Yan Su. Therefore, her defense lawyer will definitely use this as a defense point to defend her, and the maximum penalty for manslaughter is seven years, but Yan Jialing made a false confession and misled the investigation and trial, which can be regarded as obstruction of justice, and the maximum penalty for obstructing justice is 20 years, and the punishment for the two crimes is concurrent, I think it is not less than 15 years! ”