304. Court confrontation
Time always flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is the day of the second trial.
After a long period of fermentation, the discussion about Thomas's murder case has become more and more intense, not only has it not cooled down, but it has become more and more intense, I don't know if it is because of Thomas's sensitive identity as a superpower, not only in the United States, this case has a certain degree of discussion in the whole world.
Because of this, the media who knew the date of the trial were squatting at the door of the New York court early, and the number of people was almost several times that of the last trial.
And in the corridor of the courthouse, Blackstar, Thomas and the others were already waiting here, and they were about to enter the courtroom.
Just as they were about to enter the door, their opponent today, barrister De Witz, walked slowly with his hands behind his back.
"Mr. DeWeitz?" Blackstar smiled and stopped De Witz.
"What, a substitution?" De Wittz glanced at the black star, and he immediately knew what was going on, but he showed an extremely contemptuous attitude, but the strange thing is that this contemptuous attitude did not seem to have any sense of disobedience in De Weitz's body at all, but it was just as it should be: "It's useless to change people, it's not a dead end to meet me." ”
"Haha, it's not until the end, and the outcome is unknown." Heixing snorted, and then stretched out his hand: "Next, I will give more advice." ”
Dewitz didn't mean to shake hands with Black Star at all, so he ignored it and walked through the corridor and into the courtroom.
Blackstar, who had outstretched his hand, froze, then took his hand back as if nothing had happened, and walked in with De Witz.
Yan Xiuze, who was sitting in the auditorium, raised his head suddenly, he looked at De Weitz and the others who were rushing in, and his spirits were lifted, he had been waiting here for a long time, and it could be regarded as about to start!
After a brief retelling of the case, the two sides officially entered the debate session, which was also the first confrontation between the two of Blackstar and De Weitz!
"Your Excellency, jurors, I believe that after so many days of discussion, you should already know the details of this case, and since this is the case, then I don't have to beat around the bush." De Witz took the lead and said unceremoniously: "Thomas drove his car to kill people in a state of full consciousness, and he himself did not have any history of mental illness, so it can be judged that he can be fully responsible for his actions...... Therefore, I recommend that Thomas's sentence be measured on the charge of intentional homicide. ”
"Wait, have you forgotten to include my client and superpowers?" Blackstar retorted without showing weakness: "Foreseeing the future, being able to see what is coming, such a case is unheard of in the entire history of the United States, and even in the history of the world, if it is really to be judged, there is no precedent to follow at all, and it is not considered too perfunctory to be sentenced only according to ordinary intentional homicide?" ”
"Excuse me, did my client, Mr. Myerron, die as a result of Thomas's drive?"
"Excuse me, did Thomas take the initiative to make the impact?"
"Excuse me, did Myrren not behave aggressively before Thomas crashed into him?"
De Wittz asked three times in a row, with a fierce momentum, and did not give Black Star any respite: "Excuse me, in this case, what is it that is not intentional homicide?" ”
"In that case, I would like to ask you, if a gunman is shot dead by a bodyguard in the process of approaching our president, will the bodyguard also be punished for intentional homicide?" Blackstar sneered.
"You are secretly changing concepts, the two situations are completely different, how can they be discussed together?" De Witz rolled his eyes and said slowly.
"What's the difference? They are all enemies with obvious malice, and they are all self-defense counterattacks in desperation...... Why should Thomas be convicted of intentional homicide, while the president's bodyguards can escape justice? Is there still a privileged class in the United States today? ”
"This is the hat you buttoned for me, I won't take it." De Witz shook his head: "Don't show this level of sophistry to be embarrassing." ”
"Since you know that the situation is different, why would you deliberately classify this case as an ordinary intentional homicide?" Black Star said faintly: "Could it be that 'being able to predict the future' is an ability that other murderers can easily acquire?" ”
"First, the so-called 'predicting the future' is actually predicting things that have not yet happened."
"Second, it is not clear whether Thomas can predict the future, right?" De Wittz snorted coldly: "Maybe it's just a conjecture that I over-brain make up in my head?" ”
"What if it's a fantasy?" Blackstar's eyes shimmered with a meaningful glint as he asked rhetorically.
"Since it is a conjecture, it may not necessarily happen in this matter, let alone as a justifiable reason for self-defense."
"You're right, if it's really just a madman's conjecture, it naturally can't be used as a justifiable defense, because a mentally abnormal person can't be trusted with his confession, but ......" Heixing's face has a smile of "treacherous tricks succeeded": "Patients with mental illness should not have to bear the corresponding legal responsibility, right?" ”
"This ......," De Witz choked for a moment, and was speechless for a moment.
This time, he finally began to look at the Asian lawyer who had just been replaced, and there was a little more serious look in his eyes: "Whether he has mental illness requires an extremely complicated test, and at present, I don't think there is any mental problem with Mr. Thomas." ”
"As I thought, I just made an analogy." Black Star said lazily: "Now, although there are still a lot of disagreements on many details, we can at least reach a consensus on this point - the so-called 'foreseeing the future' is not a conjecture in the mind of a mentally ill person, but a real existence in this real world, right?" ”
"Absolutely." De Witz grimaced and squinted, not knowing what was going on in his mind.
Blackstar smiled, "That's good." ”
"Is this a city back?" Yan Xiuze sat in the auditorium, stunned to listen to the words of Heixing and De Weitz, and couldn't help but think in his heart, if he had the same legal knowledge as Heixing, if he only talked about court defense skills, could he do better?
No, it's too early to draw that conclusion...... Yan Xiuze thought silently in his heart.
In fact, this invisible war has just begun.