Chapter I: Homicide
The hallway was silent, and nothing could be heard except for the sound of footsteps and shackles colliding with the guards. The depression of the bleak loneliness made Chenping can't help but want to shout out loud and break the damn silence. It's just that when the courage just came up, the cold shackles on his hands mercilessly reminded him that this was not a place where he could be presumptuous. In the end, his courage was slowly squeezed to the ground, and he followed the prison guards in front of him like a puppet towards the interview room.
"Dad, save me!" As soon as he stepped into the interview room, Chenping saw his father, so he immediately rushed over, and tears flowed out of his eyes. After all, he was just a child who had just turned fifteen, and now that he was guilty of murder, he had already scared the six gods!
"Don't worry, Dad has hired a barrister, and he will definitely save you!" Seeing his son's haggard appearance, Chen Haichao's heart ached. But he didn't dare to show it too much, because he was afraid that his son would be even more uncomfortable when he saw his uneasy appearance.
"Sit down and tell me what's going on?" At this time, a middle-aged man in a suit beside Chen Haichao asked calmly.
"This is Lu Yiming, a barrister invited by Dad, you explain everything clearly, and you can't hide a little." Chen Haichao obviously has a lot of respect for the lawyer.
This person exudes a strong sense of self-confidence, which makes the people around him involuntarily infected. When Chenping saw this lawyer, he felt relieved for no reason, but in a panic, he didn't notice that his father had emphasized the big word "barrister" three times and twice when he introduced him. He sat down and calmed down for a moment before he began to talk about the events of the previous two days in earnest.
What happened was very simple, Chenping went to the game center with his friends to play until the evening, and when he came home, the kid was afraid of being taught a lesson by his father, so he walked a dark alley that he rarely walked. Maybe you were in a hurry, and you accidentally kicked something and fell. When I got up, it turned out to be a drunk. He didn't care about it at the time, and when he was about to leave, he noticed that the drunk man was a little abnormal, and when he looked closely, he found that the man had already lost his breath, and he was almost scared half to death at that time. In a panic, he called the police, but as soon as the police came, they arrested him, and inexplicably became a suspect and was put in a detention center......
"You said you called the police, but there is no information about your report in the police records?" Lawyer Lu looked through the case records and said with a frown.
"How is that possible?" Chenping was taken aback when he heard this, for fear that the lawyer would not believe his words, so he quickly explained: "I really have a report ......."
"You just need to check the records on your communication phone, you don't have to worry!" Although Lu Yiming said so, he knew in his heart that it would not be so simple. If this kid is telling the truth, and the other party can delete the internal police report records, can the communication phone records still exist? It's just that the kid in front of him was already frightened at this time, so it's better not to stimulate him too much!
"Lawyer Lu, I really didn't kill anyone......" Chenping added excitedly.
"I believe in you!" Lu Yiming smiled at Chenping and nodded seriously.
"Thank you!" Hearing that Lu Yiming believed in himself, a far-fetched smile appeared on the morning plane.
"After signing this document, I will officially become your defense lawyer!" Lu Yiming took out a document and put it in front of Chenping. And just when Chenping picked up the pen and was about to sign, Lu Yiming pressed Chenping's hand and added seriously: "Let me remind you in advance that while you entrust me, you must believe me." If you don't have faith in me, don't sign this agreement!
"yes, I see!" Chenping looked at his father hesitantly, and when he saw his father nodding affirmatively to him, he signed his name on the agreement with trepidation. Then Chen Haichao also signed his name in the guardian column.
After Lu Yiming left the detention center, he returned to the hotel by car. He is not a native of Juyan City, he still came to Juyan City on a business trip, and was inexplicably entangled by the morning sea tide, and only agreed to help Chenping, an unlucky bastard, after his begging. It's just that what he didn't expect was that when he returned to the hotel, there were already people waiting for him in the lobby.
"Lu Yiming, Barrister Lu?" A man in a suit greeted him and asked enthusiastically.
"Are you ......" Lu Yiming politely shook the other party's hand and asked suspiciously.
"I'm a messenger, you don't care who I am. Someone asked me to talk to Mr. Lu about something, I wonder if it can take up a little time? It only takes two or three minutes! The man was polite, but there was a hint of non-refusal in his attitude.
"Just two minutes!" Although he didn't like this person's attitude, Lu Yiming still agreed. Because he had a gut feeling that what this person was going to say was related to the case he had just taken on. The aura of the same kind on this guy was too strong, and he could tell at a glance that the other party was also a lawyer, so he couldn't help but be interested in what he was about to say.
After the two sat down on the sofa in the lobby, the man in the suit took out a card and put it in front of Lu Yiming. Lu Yiming is not an ordinary person, and he immediately recognized that the card was still an anonymous cash card of an interstellar bank, and the minimum amount was millions of star coins. And this time he took Chenping's case, and the fee was only 200,000 star coins (this is already all the funds that the Chen family went bankrupt)!
"Two million star coins, which is considered the consultation fee for this conversation, I hope Lu Zhuang will raise his noble hand!" The man in the suit said with a smile.
"What do you mean, let me not take this case?" Lu Yiming's face sank and he asked coldly.
"Lu Zheng has signed an agreement, and it is not good to regret it. It's better to ......."
"Humph!" Lu Yiming stood up with a dark face and immediately prepared to leave. He thinks that he has never been a good person, and he has even done a lot of immoral things secretly, but he will never be able to do this kind of stupid thing that destroys his sign.
"Ten times, the reward is ten times after the deed!" Seeing that Lu Yiming wanted to leave, the guy hurriedly said. If it were another lawyer, he would never have made such a request. Because this is undoubtedly ruining people's futures, who would be so stupid? But Lu Yiming in front of him is different, this person is not only famous in the industry for loving money, but also acting absurdly. There are many seemingly unreasonable demands, as long as there is enough money, he dares to agree to them one by one.
"Please come back, you've seen the wrong person!" Lu Yiming glanced at the man in disgust and strode away.
"Reckless! Actually, we can ......" The guy quickly chased after Lu Yiming and said seriously.
"Mr. Liu, it's too early to talk about this!" Lu Yiming stretched out his hand to signal the other party to stop, and said with a sneer.
Looking at the back of Lu Yiming leaving, this time the man did not catch up. In just a few minutes, the other party figured out his identity, and I have to say that this surnamed Lu does have some ability. And thinking of the meaning of the other party's words just now, he couldn't help but feel a trace of pride on his face!
Five days later, Chenping's murder case officially opened. Chenping walked up to the dock nervously and sat down cautiously.
"Don't worry, just trust me!" Lu Yiming, who was next to him, smiled and patted Chenping's shoulder and comforted him.
Chenping took a deep breath, nodded to Lu Yiming, and then looked at where his parents were, trying to squeeze out a smile at his family.
After the trial began, as the judge spoke and the prosecutor filed the complaint, it was the turn of the defendant's lawyer to speak. This paragraph was originally just an opening statement, and both parties probably knew each other's intentions before the trial, so it stands to reason that there was no accident. But this time it's a bit strange, there are many people in the court who have a playful look on their faces, staring at Lu Yiming who is about to speak with interest, as if something interesting is about to happen.
"Your Excellency, on behalf of my client, I plead guilty to the charge of intentional homicide. My client was premeditated and motivated to carry out this murder! Lu Yiming swore endlessly, and everyone in the court was stunned!
"Now that you're a prosecutor or I'm a prosecutor, why are you saying that so smoothly?" The prosecutor opened his mouth, and although he didn't say a word, he spat unnaturally in his heart.
"Lawyer for the defendant, do you know what you're talking about?" In addition to the shock, the judge was angry in his heart. You're too blatant and unprofessional. Although you know that the defendant is guilty of this crime, you also give others a way to live! Doesn't it make it clear that the defendant is going to be put to death?
"Your Excellency, I have made it very clear. On behalf of the defendant, I plead guilty to the murder charge......"
Before Lu Yiming's words were finished, Chenping next to him was so frightened by him that he fainted directly!