January 20th.

Jerry's interlocutory appeal came down.

Comply with the original judge's opinion.

Monrika Russell is 15 years old.

The trial of case 017-EDNY09-084 continues. In Courtroom No. 9, after the interlocutory appeal was announced, Brooklyn glanced around the tumultuous jury bench and coughed dryly

"The jury is asked to ignore all previous questions raised by the prosecution regarding Monrika Russell's age."

The jury was isolated for more than ten days, and his mood was a little irritable.

Brooklyn took in the expressions of each of the jurors, and began to be wary in his heart.

Tom was thrilled that he had won the game. He shook his fist, then lowered his head and said something to his client.

"We submitted the street surveillance video at the time of the crime as evidence, which can prove that the defendant had sufficient time and intent to commit the crime."

Jerry shouted.

There's no shortage of Brooklyn.

Video recording of the time before and after the crime is also one of the core issues.

Bob commands the other two bailiffs to move out of the big screen, and he comes to Jerry's side and reaches out to help Jerry, but Jerry dodges him.

Bob paused and looked back at Brooklyn.

Brooklyn shook his head at him.

Bob silently returned to the judge's seat.

The audience stared at Jerry in silence as Jerry smoothly stuffed the tape into the player, but there was no image on the screen.

He tinkered for a while, but there was still no image on the screen.

Jerry's face began to turn red, his breathing became rapid, his anger level rose, and just as he was about to reach a tipping point, Brooklyn spoke out in time.

"Bob, go help Prosecutor Jerry."

“NO！ No, you don't! ”

Jerry stiffly refused, and continued to keep his head down and tinker with himself.

"Jerry, this is the courtroom," Brooklyn said helplessly, "You've wasted ten minutes, how long will so many people continue to wait for you?" Five minutes? Ten minutes? Or half an hour? ”

“FXXK！”

Jerry slammed the player hard, making a loud noise.

Then he reacted and hurriedly raised his hands.

Brooklyn looked at him with a look of disappointment.

When he first met Jerry and Tom, he had a good impression of Jerry, and even if Jerry later revealed his flaws, the most he could do was call Ben Stone and complain privately.

As a judge, he could have made a work call to the District Attorney's Office, asked to speak to the boss of the District Attorney's Office, and officially informed him in an official tone of how bad their Jerry was.

But he didn't.

Now it seems that he should be on business.

Give young people a chance or something...... Sure enough, it wasn't for him.

He's a young man himself!

"If you continue to stare at me like this, I'll have the clerk record your contempt of court, Prosecutor Jerry."

Brooklyn and Jerry looked at each other and spoke.

Jerry was not convinced by Brooklyn's warning, and he turned around angrily and stared at Brooklyn.

The two began to look at each other through the air.

There was a lot of discussion in the auditorium and the jury bench.

"Be quiet!"

Brooklyn rang the gavel and continued to stare at Jerry, "If the auditorium disrupts the rhythm of the trial again, please leave consciously, if the jury bench can't keep quiet, take the initiative to propose, and we have alternate members who can replace you." ”

"Nelly, for the record, Prosecutor Jerry is in contempt of court."

"Jerry, after this case is over, I will write a letter of advice to your boss about your performance in this case, written just for you."

Brooklyn's barrage of threats nearly caused Jerry to explode on the spot, and Bob rushed to help.

Under Bob's skillful operation, the image finally appeared on the screen normally.

"Please go back to your seat."

As soon as the footage began to play, Brooklyn's voice rang out again.

Brush Brush Brush –

All eyes were on Jerry.

Jerry's face turned red again, and his rage continued to soar.

Fortunately, his self-control was not bad and he didn't yell at Brooklyn. Instead, he turned around and walked back to the plaintiff's dock, deliberately making a loud noise on the way, and the tables and chairs collided and clanged.

"Quiet!"

This is a video from a street corner, the quality of the picture is not clear, and the people in the picture can only be identified by their appearance, and the face is a mosaic.

Just after 9 p.m., a group of people appeared across from the GOOD fast food restaurant, revealing their identities with Monrika's signature colorful braids.

They probed around the GOOD fast-food restaurant, stood across the street and began to stone the glass of the fast-food restaurant.

The beautiful snowflake pattern on the window of the GOOD fast food restaurant was smashed first, then the life-size Santa Claus statue inside was smashed, and the Christmas tree was smashed off its branches.

The 'stone-throwing activity' lasted for nearly half an hour, and at 9:28 a.m., the crowd dispersed. The footage was empty.

Since it was Christmas, it was actually quite reasonable that there was no one on the street.

As if the pause button had been pressed, the screen remained motionless until 9:43.

The original white lights in the GOOD fast food restaurant are dyed orange, and the orange is getting brighter and brighter, and the fire snake peeks out of the store through the leaky window.

Then the whole fast-food restaurant was in flames.

In the lower left corner of the screen, Monrica rushes into the frame, standing in front of the sea of fire, yelling at something in a panic, and then being dragged away by an arm.

This concludes the recording.

"This is a picture that has been restored after being processed by technical means."

Jerry seemed to calm down and pointed to the screen

"Before the restoration, from 9:28 to 9:45, for 17 minutes, the picture was completely still and was replaced by technical means."

"In fact, we were only able to fix the last two minutes of footage, and the long silence we had before still couldn't be repaired."

"In the picture, Monrica and other accomplices first smashed the GOOD fast food restaurant with stones and other objects, and then when the fire spread at the fast food restaurant, she reappeared at the scene, but the accomplices around her were gone."

"It's likely that she secretly returned after pretending to leave with her accomplices and set fire to the GOOD fast food restaurant."

“Objection!”

"Speculative statement! What the other party said is speculation, not fact! ”

Tom objected.

Brooklyn stared at the screen and did not immediately give a ruling.

Jerry's statement is indeed speculative, but it is plausible.

Except for Monrika and the owner of the last arm to appear, everyone didn't know what was going on, and could only rely on evidence to speculate.

But at the same time, the image of the fire at the GOOD fast-food restaurant was particularly familiar to Brooklyn, and he thought of another possibility.

"The opposition is valid."

"Prosecutor Jerry, please pay attention to what you say."

In a word, Jerry's pent-up anger rose again.

Even if he was not prejudiced against Jerry, Brooklyn felt that Jerry's statement was terrible.

The footage is clearly a double-edged sword, lacking the most crucial part, which is the footage of Monrika setting the fire – if the killer is really Monrika.

In other words, this video cannot have the effect of determining the final word, and completely nailing Monrika to death.

The use of this kind of evidence requires a lot of skill.

For example, it is simply displayed in the form of pictures, and only the pictures of Monrica at the scene before the fire and the pictures of Monrica at the scene after the fire are excerpted.

For example, put out the original video without repairing it.

For example, the irreparable parts were cut out and the front and back were played together, creating the optical illusion that Monrica had been on the scene.

No matter what the method, in short, it shouldn't be like Jerry's and don't cut it.

Such a complete video not only cannot nail Monrika, but is easy to be bitten by the other party and become a sharp weapon against yourself.

"Your Excellency, I request a simulation of the restoration of the fire scene, which can prove that my client cannot be the arsonist at all."