After a week of catching up, Brooklyn's case number has reached 70, and the gap with other judges' 70-90 has narrowed significantly.

Michael no longer takes care of him, and he gradually begins to get in touch with normal cases.

After sending a guy who organizes a Ponzi scheme to jail, the guest assistant whispers to him that Michael is waiting for him in the office.

Brooklyn had to adjourn the court and go to the chief justice's office.

As soon as he entered the office, Michael handed him an indictment.

"Ready for a murder trial?"

Brooklyn was a little confused

"Just divide it directly, you don't have to be so serious, right?"

"This one is different."

Michael raised his chin and motioned for Brooklyn to open the indictment.

Brooklyn glanced up at Michael, his expression turned solemn, and he opened the indictment and read it.

"Two days ago, the 'Red Devil' imitator was arrested, and the District Prosecutor's Office filed a lawsuit and designated you to be tried."

"Me?"

Brooklyn pointed to herself.

"That's right."

"Hasn't he already confessed his guilt? What else does this need to be reviewed? ”

Brooklyn turned straight to the last page and asked, pointing to the suspect's signature.

According to the process, after the suspect is handed over to the district prosecutor's office along with the paperwork, if the suspect has pleaded guilty, he only needs to go to court to go through the process.

For example, in this Red Devil imitation murder case, the suspect admitted that he imitated the Red Devil to kill people, and he could directly skip the trial stage in court and enter the verdict.

There seems to be nothing suspicious about this case, the suspect's confession is consistent with the clues found by the police, and the criminal acts described by him are consistent with the crime scene, and there is no dispute at all.

First-degree murder, death penalty or life sentence.

Undisputed!

Brooklyn didn't quite understand what else he needed to try in such a case with clear facts and conclusive evidence.

Any newly appointed new judge can handle this case, right?

"It's not that simple."

Michael shook his head and took another file out of the drawer and handed it to Brooklyn.

It was an opinion that the suspect was likely to be an impostor and that the killer was someone else.

Brooklyn noted that the submission came from a department of the F.B.I. called BU.

"Criminal investigation analysis? Department of Behavioral Analysis? What is this department? ”

Brooklyn looked disgusted.

"Isn't this an NYPD case? How can the FBI still intervene? ”

Brooklyn's instinctive dislike for the FBI's brocade-like department, he doesn't quite understand why such a strange department exists in the 21st century.

"The FBI didn't intervene, it was the director of the NYPD who asked the BAU people to do the analysis, and the head of the homicide team insisted that their judgment was correct."

Michael explained

Brooklyn understood.

This is a disagreement between the director of the NYPD and David on the case, and the director believes that there is something else hidden in the case, but there is no evidence, so he invited experts to do analysis.

The experts came to the same conclusion.

But David insisted on his opinion, so the director compromised.

"Today? Or tomorrow? ”

Brooklyn asked, picking up the indictment.

He took on the case, not only for David, but also for the sake of David, and he himself was interested in the case.

The comeback of the Red Devil and the crime committed by the Red Devil imitator have been in a uproar recently, and people all over New York are paying attention. Brooklyn has heard about it, too.

This case is handled well and can bring him a lot of benefits.

"Afternoon."

“OK。”

Brooklyn waved at Michael and walked out of the office.

Just in time to meet Ruby, Brooklyn nodded politely at her, and the two staggered by.

Brooklyn couldn't help but glance back at Ruby.

……

……

Back in the office, Brooklyn called David as soon as possible.

"What's the matter with the Red Devil Mimics?"

As soon as the phone was connected, Brooklyn asked straight to the point.

"You're the presiding judge?"

David reacted quickly, and after a little thought, he guessed the meaning of the Brooklyn call. I briefly retold the general situation.

"Half a month ago, the first deceased was found. The modus operandi and the layout of the scene are very consistent with the methods of the Red Devil. We immediately launched an investigation. ”

"We first screened the Red Devil's letters, focusing on his fans."

"Wait." Brooklyn called a halt, a little incredulous "Red Devil, that X-dysfunctional murderer, he still has fans?" ”

"Of course, he certainly has fans, and there are quite a few. There are also his fan groups all over the Federation. There was even a special person on the prison side who was responsible for reviewing the Red Devil's letter. ”

"This is not uncommon. Brooklyn. ”

"Why? Why does a murderer have so many followers, and I, an upright judge, have only a few thousand followers on Twitter? ”

Brooklyn is very dissatisfied, the people of the Federation are really weird, they don't fan serious people, they have to be a murderer?

"You almost had a fan base, but you gave up."

David joked.

"If the price of having a fan club is jail, forget it." Brooklyn muttered and continued to ask, "And then?" Did you find anything? ”

"No, it's not that simple."

"He has so many fans. We can only delineate within the state limits of New York. ”

"But this imitator entered a period of excitement after the first case, he began to be bold and continued to commit crimes, and his excitement threshold continued to rise."

"We've interrogated the Red Devil, and he's very difficult and very uncooperative."

"By the seventh day of the crime, he began to stop being satisfied with imitating the red devil and upgraded his modus operandi."

"We used this to find a breakthrough from the Red Devil's side, and we locked on the suspect."

"Did the Red Demon tell you?" Brooklyn asked, spitting out the name of the Red Devil in passing.

"Who took the name? Doesn't he have a name? His parents gave him the name of the Red Devil? It's weird. ”

"The Red Devil's name is Hahn, and the name was given by his fans."

"That's right, the Red Devil told us. He gave us the characteristics of the suspect and the target of the next crime, and we set up the scene in advance and arrested the suspect red-handedly. ”

Audible, David was very proud of this, and even though his voice was tired, he still couldn't hide his smile.

Brooklyn thought about it, straightened his body, and warned

"David, don't rejoice too soon, get ready to reopen the investigation"

David's laughter came to an abrupt end. There was a moment of silence before his voice came faintly.

"Have you read the boss's expert opinion?"

"Hmm."

"You also think the Red Devil is playing tricks on us?"

"It's hard to say. David, I'm just a judge, and my job is to judge the defendant's punishment according to the law, and it's your business to bring the right defendant to court. I'm not good at it. ”