Chapter 75 "This Chamber hereby authorizes the clerk to expel these questions and answers from the testimony!"
Solomon hung up the phone and smiled at his assistant Henry Puzell, "What a clever fellow, I really like him!" ”
"Yes, it's awe-inspiring, but he's still young, and if it's ten years from now, I don't know what he'll become?"
"Ten years?" Solomon smiled, "I wish he had lived until then." It is not necessarily a good thing for a person to be too smart and outstanding, and of course compared to old Europe, the United States has been very kind and friendly to the protection of such genius, which is why this young country has been able to become the leader of the free world in just over a hundred years. Outstanding Ethics & Values. ”
"yes. Seriously, I want to just find someone to kill him. "Henry Puzell told the truth.
A case that was originally caught by this guy was so stirred up that the Federal Prosecutor's Office came to express "concern" and asked if it needed "help".
The translation is, "Stinky fool, you have made things bigger, hurry up and smooth it out, otherwise I will replace it!" ”
Of course, this is just an expression of attitude, the power behind Solomon will make anyone think twice, but being so "concerned" is that after all, there is no shame on the face.
"No, no, Henry, don't think so! That's the mafia faction, we are lawyers, we are law enforcers, we are the guardians of the United States, and we should try to solve problems within the legal framework as much as possible, not with knives and guns. ”
Henry Puzell smuttered, "I know, I'm just whining. But your persuasion of Judge Arnold has worked. ”
"Of course," Solomon leaned back triumphantly, "At the end of the day, prosecutors and judges are government employees, and although they are paid federal and local salaries respectively, they all work for the government, and naturally they think about the same." Stability comes first, and we all want to leave our name in history, but only in a cautious and reliable way, so we still have some common language. ”
"As long as we have a reasonable question, he must also consider it and weigh it again. We must at least have a practical starting point for the lawsuit to be brought to the fore. ”
"Yes!" Henry Puzell replied, muttering to himself, "As long as you have such a good starting point, you can mobilize the power behind you to 'convince' the judge!" You don't even need to do it deliberately, you just need to use a little technical means to solve the big problem at a critical time. ”
Solomon did not know what his assistant was thinking, and continued: "Actually, they did a beautiful job this time, but they also made a fatal mistake, and if they played the recording in court, even if Judge Arnold was angry, they would have to hold back, and at this time they could convince him skillfully. ”
"I would definitely do it, after all, they are almost completely at a disadvantage, and only in this way can they turn the tables, be sincere, and then take a few past judgments, and Arnold will probably admit it."
"It's a pity, Edward is still too tender," Henry Puzell pouted.
"Thankfully, he's still young, and if we're meeting him ten years from now, hehe......," Solomon smiled, "but thankfully, God still cares for us." ”
……
What Edward didn't expect was that the locker room negotiations almost pushed him to the brink, so much so that when he wrote in his Memoirs, "This was the most dangerous moment of my legal career." My legal life almost ended here. ”
As soon as he sat down in the locker room, Solomon's deputy, Henry Puzeer, stood up and gave a well-choreographed speech accusing the defense team of "...... From beginning to end, he completely coaxed the court, coaxed the witness Santo, provoked the law with the trap of words, and turned Santo from a good police officer into a liar in the eyes of the public, causing his near-social death! This is the greatest blasphemy against the lawyer's code and the law, and the malice in it is so strong that you can almost smell it with your nose! ”
Solomon was silent, but his face was trivial, and it was clear that most of the speech was written by him.
"Mr. Kamazepin deliberately read words that did not actually exist on the tape to confuse Mr. Santo, this is a malicious fraud! It's an inducement! is evidence of invalidity. ”
"I obviously disagree with you," Edward began.
But before he could unleash his defense.
"This is a great mistake," said Judge Arnold, "and on the basis of these practices, you have tarnished the image of the witness [referring to Santo], which led me to conclude that he was a liar, so you have deceived the court as well." ”
"But this is the tape and Santo's own words and deeds...... "Edward noticed that the situation was not good, and began to go on the defensive"...... It wasn't our 'doing' that proved that he was a liar. He has always been from beginning to end. ”
"If he wasn't lying, why did he collapse like that? Everyone saw the scene at that time. ”
"Santo admitted everything in substance. He himself admits that he is a vile liar. ”
But Judge Arnold did not want to admit this.
He began to see Santo as a victim, and portrayed Edward and Camaci as the Jewish mob that had conspired with the Italian mafia.
"Now, I would like to suggest to you, Mr. Edward, that at least in this courtroom, one should expect a lawyer to punch above the belt. ”
Boxing rules, the boxer must punch the opponent above the belt, otherwise the violation of the deduction points.
"Are you stupid fork awakening the soul of cosplay in this case, using yourself as a defense lawyer to question Santo in court, and now incarnating as a federal prosecutor? Could it be the outbreak of Alzheimer's disease? Edward's anger suddenly came up, and he cursed incessantly in his heart.
Suppressing his anger, he said, "Your Excellency, I don't think we've hit our fists below our belts. ”
"Oh?" Arnold straightened up from his chair and stared at Edward with a threatening tone, "Then you and I, sir." There are two very different standards for the way we think about doing the law..."
"I just don't understand your argument, Your Excellency." Edward felt that he could no longer resist like this, and his words softened slightly, trying to find common ground while reserving differences.
"Don't make the mistake of thinking the court is arguing with you!" Judge Arnold's usual condescending demeanor appeared, "Sir." The court is stating its conclusions. ”
His old habit of always using the court as a first-person pronoun has to say that this hand is very shocking to the layman.
In Edward's eyes, it seemed very pediatric, and he even pondered the idea of simply writing an article to satirize the judge's ridiculous self-feeling.
But now is not the time.
He had to convince the other party that:
"If, in fact, he thinks that there are no tapes, he testifies in one way - denies them altogether; When he thinks he has our tapes and uses another method to testify - a fussy confession, I don't understand how this can lead to real results, or how to judge which of the two types of testimony is credible? ”
There is suspicion of sophistry, but it cannot be said that it is completely unreasonable. Although it avoids the deliberate inducement of carbamazepine, the core focus of contradiction.
Judge Arnold was unmoved.
"The way you think you are that you can ask questions that you actually get from wiretapping or recordings. In between these real problems, let's say, make up another little problem that you added yourself that never existed..."
"What do you think of as 'never existed'? Is it a fabrication?"
"Yes. That's what the court thinks."
Solomon and Henry Puzell stood by and did not say a word.
Apparently they had already convinced His Excellency the "Tribunal" before, and as for what method it would be used, God knows.
Of course, this is also within the scope of the law.
Before the case is tried, both the prosecution and the defense have the right to present their views to the judge separately as a supplement to the courtroom debate.
These conversations are also recorded and kept on file.
Solomon was not going to sit still, and when he discovered Edward's scheme, he was keenly aware of the gray area, that is, the suspicion that "the defense used 'false information' to induce confessions".
"No, that's not quite right. If you're asking if it's appropriate to add tapes between conversations that the witness thinks are recorded, and we ask him if it's appropriate to have some conversations that we think have already happened that aren't recorded, I'm sure that's a very appropriate and lawful practice. ”
The "court" said again rudely: "Even if you deliberately show your behavior, speech, and demeanor in the courtroom, as if they were all recorded?" Is it appropriate behavior too?! ”
Edward: "Of course, it's appropriate. ”
"Court": "You and the court's views are incompatible. ”
At this point, Edward was cornered.
There is no other way but a hard cap
"But I still think it's all in accordance with the law."
"Tribunal": "The Tribunal considers that this practice is impermissible. ”
Edward: "If you can explain ......"
"Court": "The court is not here to answer questions!" Don't you understand that? I am the court! ”
Edward said dryly, "I don't understand what's wrong with that?"
"Court": "Then I can't help it." Mr. I'm not your professor of criminal procedure. ”
Edward was still too young to think he was justified, so he began to try to argue with Arnold before the judge again.
But for the vaunted "tribunal", this is clearly a provocation.
At this point, Edward finally realized how foolish it was to not take the initiative to explain on the spot that day that the transcription was different from the tape.
If you were a judge, you would obviously think that the defense lawyer was deliberately deceiving and misleading.
No judge likes to be teased in court by a lawyer or prosecutor, or he doesn't admit to being tricked.
Usually people smile faintly after being teased and say they don't mind, it's just that they don't have the channels and methods to retaliate, and once they have these two things...... Hehe, the ugliness of human nature will soon take over.
What the lawyer thought was a simple trick of cross-examination was now determined by Judge Arnold to be a fraud, and revenge came......
When Edward finally figured it out, he broke out in a cold sweat and begged Judge Arnold not to rush to a conclusion on the issue, but at least wait for the defense to have a chance to give a written answer to the prosecutor's accusations.
However, the "court" was impatient to make a "judgment on the spot":
"The Tribunal hereby authorizes the clerk to expunge these questions and answers from the testimony!"
"No!" Edward shouted
Judge Arnold almost sneered, and said, "I've made it very clear, very clear. Now I want to spare the defender the burden of writing a written defence, after all, you have spent a lot of effort to make up the transcript of the recording. Now this court has ruled that it is completely incompatible with the legal process! It's over. If this court had made a mistake, the Court of Appeal would have told me that! And not the defense lawyer! ”
"At the same time, I would like to remind you that, as the Court has been saying, the decisions of the Court have never been overturned by the Court of Appeal! Never! ”
Edward was cold.
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