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"I ...... I don't think there...... In the clear. The female juror, after listening to Blackstar's overall statement, changed her tone again.
At first her voice was faint and staccato but after a while, her voice grew louder and firmer.
"Not guilty!"
I don't know which person in the auditorium took the lead in shouting, and some of the people sitting next to him began to echo one after another......
"I think it's innocent too."
"You can't ask him to be a saint."
"That's it, think about it from another perspective, I'll hit it if I change it!"
"Not guilty! In the clear! Not guilty!"
At first, such voices were only quietly circulated within a certain range, but soon, the originally sporadic shouts condensed into a huge wave, and the many onlookers in the entire auditorium stood up and shouted for innocence!
Yan Xiuze was not driven by this frenzied atmosphere, but turned his head sharply and stared at the person who was the first to make a sound.
"This guy...... In order to win the lawsuit, he really made a lot of small moves...... "Almost at a glance, Yan Xiuze can confirm 100% that the person who shouted "not guilty" in the auditorium at the beginning is one of the people planted by Black Star.
And the rest of the people...... It's clear that it's been brought to a rhythm.
Of course, this kind of rhythm is not easy to bring out, although people have a herd mentality, but they are definitely not idiots who let Black Star control at will...... At present, everything is finally based on the metaphor of the "cockroach in the cream cake" of the previous Black Star, which is both accurate and precise, easy to understand, very convincing and incitative, and can successfully build momentum, forming such an almost one-sided "support for innocence" situation.
"Silence! Quiet! The old judge in the middle of the courtroom struck the small hammer in his hand hard, trying to control the already boiling situation, I have to say that as the highest status representative in the court, the judge's deterrent power is still quite strong, and the scene that was still a little out of control gradually calmed down in the sound of a few small hammer strikes, and people's originally high emotions were gradually calmed down, and it didn't take long for the entire court to return to calm.
From the first person who shouted innocence, to the wave of the group, and then to the restoration of calm, the whole period did not exceed five minutes, violent and swift, in addition to causing a great impact on the hearts of everyone, it was more of an illusory sense of unreality.
From the beginning to the end, De Witz just stood there quietly, without the slightest change in expression due to the appearance of the wave, and did not show any real concern about such a direction that was extremely unfavorable to him.
He just stood there, his face showing some signs of age like frost, his eyes looking straight ahead, as if he were staring at the spectators there, and he didn't seem to look at anything, but took them as air.
"Plaintiff's lawyer, is there anything else you have to say?" The old judge spoke very slowly, but the words were very clear, and he said word by word: "Do you have anything to refute the defendant's lawyer's previous statement?" ”
De Witz did not speak.
"Plaintiff's lawyer?" The old judge asked again, but De Witz still didn't respond.
"Did he give up......" Yan Xiuze looked at De Weitz, who bowed his head and was silent, and frowned and thought, in his opinion, De Weitz is not the kind of person who admits defeat lightly, but because of this, he is particularly abnormal when he has no sharp counterattack at this time, could it be that this is the calm of the moment before the storm?
"Plaintiff's lawyer, if you ......"
"Your Excellency, what do you think is the meaning of the existence of the law?" A sudden sentence interrupted the judge's originally organized language, and he was obviously stunned for a moment, he really didn't expect that the first sentence of De Weitz, who was originally silent, would be such an abrupt question.
Seeing that the judge didn't mean to answer (of course, De Weitz didn't intend for him to answer), he turned to the auditorium again and looked at all the observers, including Yan Xiuze: "What about you?" What do you think is the meaning of the existence of the law? ”
Everyone in the auditorium didn't know how to answer this question for a while, and after a while, De Witz finally locked his eyes back on Blackstar: "Tell me, what is the meaning of the law for you?" ”
"Does this have anything to do with this case?" Blackstar was obviously a little absent-minded about this kind of problem, because he had just succeeded in bringing a wave of rhythm and bringing the public's inclination in his favor, and many members of the jurors were instigated by himself, for him, the case had already won most of the time, so there was no need to pay too much attention to De Witz's brainless and nonsense question, so he just said lazily: "Are you here to fight a lawsuit, or are you here to take a philosophy class?" ”
As if he didn't hear the ridicule of the black star, De Witz still said to himself: "If the sense of morality in people's hearts is the light of human civilization, then the law is the cornerstone that holds up this light source, and it is not dazzling." ”
"A morally despicable person may not break the law, and many times, the lower moral limit involved in the law is even lower than many people think."
But on the other hand, many people who break the law are not necessarily dark in their hearts, and they may even have some noble purpose...... This is why crime dramas are an enduring genre, and due to the complexity of human character, many criminals can shine with rare humanity in many cases. ”
"The law is measured, and it won't take you to jail just because you dumped your boyfriend/girlfriend; But I won't let you go after you've committed murder and arson......
"The law is fair and meticulous...... It will determine you impartially to the number of days and hours based on every action you make, every fact of breaking the law and committing a crime...... Even the sentence of minutes. ”
"If the court members who enforce the judgment are fair enough and are not disturbed by practical interests, then all beings are equal before the law."
"Human beings claim to be the higher animals on the earth, but animals are always animals and always act according to instinct, and it is precisely human beings who have overcome the instincts of this animal in the development of modern civilization and society...... The only thing that legal justice can rely on is impersonal and rigid regulations. ”
"But what did I just see?" De Witz said with a look of disbelief on his face: "A group of intellectuals with modern higher education and bathed in social civilization, like illiterate peasants in the Middle Ages, cheered by the cross as they watched the witches who were about to be burned to death? ”
"I'm sorry, but even though you shouted 'not guilty' before, maybe I have a problem with this analogy...... But it's not about what you're shouting. ”
"It's about ...... act of 'shouting' itself."