The Battle for Identity Chapter 129: The Battle in the Courtroom
The evidence presented by Mr. Fei suddenly made the witness Liu Daguang speechless, but he did not expect that Mr. Fei would be able to consult so many past case files and find suitable evidence. It is important to know that decades-old files were paper-based, and not all evidence is kept on the web, which requires a lot of effort to conduct manual searches.
The jurors exchanged views for a short time before notifying the judge, who nodded and then began to announce: "In view of the evidence presented by the suspect's defender, the testimony of the witness Liu Daguang is not true and will not be considered in this case." ”
"Your Excellency, there were only a few of us in the café at that time, and he didn't kill us, but we killed us?" Liu Daguang shouted anxiously while standing on the witness stand.
"It is forbidden to make noise in the courtroom, witness Liu Daguang, if there is any new testimony, please show it, otherwise you can go down now." The judge said very sternly to Liu Daguang.
"I—I don't have anything to say. Liu Daguang's eyes were blank and replied decadently.
With Liu Daguang's departure from the witness stand, the first phase of the public trial ended.
Hao Yun didn't expect it to go so smoothly, and at this pace, he would soon be acquitted.
The prosecutor went out to take some phone calls, and Mr. Fei did not feel much joy as he sat on the defense bench.
During the break, various advertisements began to play on the light screen, and special guests commented on the first phase of the public trial.
The special guest invited this time was Mr. Jan, the historian of the previous meeting. According to the surveillance video, it can be seen that there was no one else in the café at that time, except for the owner and a waiter, if it were not a suspect, the spearhead must have been pointed at several police officers present. Although the police did not see the suspect personally killing the person at the scene, it cannot be denied that it is possible for the suspect to initiate a ban, and if it can be activated with just a prop, it is possible for anyone present. But in the final analysis, Sima Qiuzhen died under the prohibition of cultivators, and the prohibition of cultivators is not something that anyone can do. In the final analysis, it was the cultivator who killed Sima Qiuzhen, but the judge did not consider the testimony of the witness Liu Daguang, which deeply hurt the credibility of the Xifeng judicial department, which was a very bad move.
The second phase of the trial officially began, and this time the prosecutor asked the witness Su Yujin, the owner of the café. Hao Yun had an impulse when he saw Su Yujin's serious face, this guy almost let him return to the long river of time, originally he wanted to use the time magic trick and punch Su Yujin in the face, but after thinking about it, if this guy didn't say anything in court, it would be quite unfavorable to himself.
The witness Su Yujin, the owner of Time Cafe, saw the whole process completely in his eyes. The prosecutor stood up and introduced the witnesses.
"Hello witness, you did see the suspect sitting with the victim at that time. The prosecutor asked.
"Yes. Su Yujin replied.
"Did the suspect and the victim behave suspiciously before the police arrived?" the prosecutor then asked him.
"Nothing suspicious, did I? Su Yujin was a little confused.
"Through the video, we can see that the suspect suddenly grabbed the victim's arm with his hand, when was that?" the prosecutor reminded Su Yujin.
"Oh, it seems like at that time, you can hear the sound of sirens. Su Yujin thought for a while and said.
The prosecutor said to the judge that he had finished asking his question. Mr. Fei told the judge that he had no problems.
After Su Yujin went down, Xiao Tang, a café waiter, appeared in court as a witness. The prosecutor's question to Xiao Tang is basically the same as Su Yujin's, and the focus is still on, when did Hao Yun grab Sima Qiuzhen's arm? Xiao Tang's answer was the same as Su Yujin's, after hearing the sound of the police car.
The prosecutor based on the testimony of Su Yujin and Xiao Tang, which means that the suspect imposed a restraining on the victim when he learned that the police were coming. At the same time, the procurator also retrieved relevant information from the past, indicating that if a cultivator wants to issue a ban, he must contact people. This shows that because of the sudden arrival of the police, the suspect found that if he wanted to kill people and kill him, he could still let himself escape, so he could only adopt a relatively covert method, that is, prohibition. In fact, the arrival of the police also broke the suspect's plan, the police wanted to protect the victim immediately, because the victim was about to flee from the suspect's perspective, the suspect had no choice but to trigger a ban on killing the victim.
The prosecutor's reasoning was reasonable, and the jurors on the jury bench nodded their heads, feeling that what the prosecutor said made sense. Hao Yun knew that he had finally come to the main event. In the final analysis, the focus of this case is who actually issued this ban, and nothing else is a problem.
Mr. Fei began his defense, and he expressed his doubts based on the prosecutor's reasoning. The prosecutor believes that the suspect killed the victim in order to kill the victim. This shows that there is a relationship between the suspect and the victim, and at least the victim has some ulterior secret about the suspect. However, according to the evidence currently available, the suspect did not come to Xijing from Lingdu for a long time, and the suspect was also a member of the Lingdu patrol team for identity authentication by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. May I ask how Sima Qiuzhen mastered the secret of the suspect's ulterior, killing people requires a motive to kill, and the suspect not only did not get any benefits by killing the victim, but also went directly to prison.
Mr. Fei took out the confessions of Xiao Tang, a waiter at the café, and Su Yujin, the owner, which included the conversation between the suspect and the victim at that time, as well as the conversation between the victim and the police. Although there are some differences between Xiao Tang's confessions and Su Yujin's confessions, the overall meaning is similar. It can be roughly seen that Sima Qiuzhen and Hao Yun are friends, and Sima Qiuzhen came to Hao Yun for help, not because he was threatened by the suspect, and before the victim left, he also asked the police not to be difficult for his friends. There are indications that the suspect had no motive to kill the victim at all, and that the victim himself sought help from the suspect because he was in danger.
The prosecutor did not question Mr. Fei's arguments, but stood up and said they did not know the motive for why the suspect killed the victim. But now the focus is on who gave Sima Qiuzhen the ban? If it is not a suspect, then the suspect needs to produce evidence.
Mr. Fei invited an important witness, Mr. Zhou Lu, the former Chief Justice, and Zhou Lu walked into the courtroom, and the audience was in an uproar, and even the presiding judge stood up and saluted Justice Zhou. Zhou Lu's aura was very large, and when he came to the witness stand, he pressed his hand twice to signal the audience to be silent. When the audience was silent, Judge Zhou said two sentences before testifying: "The law of the west wind is fair and just, everything speaks according to the facts, and I swear that my testimony is absolutely true and reliable." ”
Mr. Fei stood up, saluted Judge Zhou, and then asked: "Judge Zhou, you haven't come out for a long time, everyone knows that although you are a cultivator, you have made a lot of contributions to the people of Xifeng, I don't know how you feel about coming to the court after so many years." ”
"First of all, I want to say that I am an ordinary citizen of Zephyr, and Xiuzhen is just my hobby, and in the era when I was born, Xifeng cultivators were more common. Secondly, I came to the court this time, and I was very happy, because I saw the progress of the times, and the suspect, as a cultivator of the Lingdu Continent, was able to resist the law without using force and accept a fair trial under the West Wind Law, which in itself showed that it was the victory of our West Wind Law. Only when the law is recognized by more people in the spiritual world can it be implemented worldwide, otherwise it will always be a dead letter. I hope that this is a good start, and I also hope that the cultivators of the Lingdu Continent will increasingly recognize our laws of the west wind, the technology of our west wind, and the people of our west wind. "Zhou Lu's speech is very level.
"I hope that with the auspicious words of Justice Zhou, we can make the development of Xifeng better and faster. Okay, let's get down to business now, I don't know what Justice Zhou's opinion is on the prohibition of the victim. Mr. Fei applauded in agreement and began to ask important questions.
"I personally examined the victim's body, and found that the prohibition on killing the victim was very old, and it was definitely not exerted by the suspect on the victim for a short period of time, so the argument that the suspect was restrained through contact with the victim is not valid. Zhou Lu said the answer directly.
After Mr. Fei reached his conclusion, he returned to the defense bench. The prosecutor stood up and saluted Zhou Lu, after all, Zhou Lu's seniority is too high in the legal profession.
"May I ask Justice Zhou, since the prohibition on killing the victim is not new, is it possible that the suspect gave the victim a long time ago?" The prosecutor did not give up splashing dirty water on Hao Yun's head.
"If the suspect has been on the West Wind Continent for less than a month, there is no impossibility, and that prohibition will last at least two years. Zhou Lu directly denied the prosecutor's speculation.
"Can you determine who gave this ban?" the prosecutor asked.
"It's very difficult, and it's going to require you to re-investigate. But I can confirm that this ban has absolutely nothing to do with the suspects. Zhou Lu stressed that the ban had nothing to do with Hao Yun.
The prosecutor smiled wryly and returned to his seat and sat down.
The stone in Hao Yun's heart finally fell to the ground, it seems that he will definitely be acquitted, this public trial is not as dangerous as imagined, the prosecutor feels that his heart is not high, it is estimated that after knowing that Justice Zhou Lu will come forward to testify, they also know that the general trend has gone, there is no need to hold on to Hao Yun.
The judge declares the end of the second phase of the public trial and begins a break if the prosecutor has no new evidence to submit. The next stage is the turn of the prosecutor and the defense counsel to present their case.
During the live broadcast of the light curtain, the guests expressed a lot of opinions on the second phase of the current public trial. Some people said that Justice Zhou Lu suddenly appeared to testify for the suspect, which was not the protection of the cultivators for the cultivators. Some people also said that identity is not important, Justice Zhou Lu has always made significant contributions to the cause of Xifeng law, and he is the person who upholds the Xifeng law the most in the world, and he will definitely not discredit the Xifeng law he upholds because of favoritism.
Soon it was time for a break. Sure enough, the prosecutor did not submit new evidence and went straight to his case. The prosecutor came to the center of the courtroom and saluted the judge and the jurors in the jury.
"This case is about the murder of an excellent parliamentarian of the Zephyr government, although the police arrived in time, they still failed to save the victim's life, and we still don't know who killed the victim so far. The current evidence suggests that the prohibition may not be associated with the suspect, nor does it prove that the prohibition was initiated by the suspect. But the death of the parliamentarian is indeed related to the cultivators, and only the means of the cultivators can kill each other unknowingly, and Justice Zhou Lu has already given testimony, the victim was banned by the cultivators at least two years ago, I don't know how many of the parliamentarians or important department staff of the Zephyr government are banned without knowing it. I hope this case can give you a good hint, and suggest that the government should conduct a comprehensive investigation as soon as possible, otherwise once it is banned by the cultivators, it will cause the paralysis of the Zephyr government, which is very terrible. In this case, due to the lack of evidence, we withdrew all claims against the suspect, and the suspect was unconditionally acquitted. The prosecutor's words made Hao Yun in the defendant's seat break out in a cold sweat, so it turned out, people have long known that it is very difficult to defeat Hao Yun, and the purpose of the public trial is to conclude this paragraph, although his language is not exaggerated, but the words are showing that the cultivator is already preparing for the next big game of chess, but everyone doesn't know.