That evening. Brooklyn sensed a strange storm brewing online. His social media accounts suddenly increased by tens of thousands of followers.

A lot of talk about 017 eucalyptus began to appear on social platforms. To Brooklyn's frequent frowns, a word that disgusted him was repeatedly mentioned along with Peter Johnson's girlfriend's suicide note — feminism.

Late that night, when Brooklyn was about to go to bed, she swiped the latest statement from the social media account of the women's rights protection organization, and the time of the speech was 1 minute ago.

"Thank you fellow women in New York State for the reminder! @巴鲁克学院啦啦队队长克里斯汀娜 Besiri and the brave speeches of the 12 sisters, we will continue to focus on them. Thanks to Peter Johnson, who is a good man who deserves to be entrusted with his life, he should not be treated like this, I heard that e.. Judge Y @Brooklyn Lee is a gentleman of integrity and believes he will make the right judgment. Brooklyn searched for Christina's social account and clicked on the homepage to take a look.

Christina's social account posted a large number of cheerleading training photos, with a text recording the results of the training, in addition to various group photos.

Christina's latest release is shown at noon, with the content of reposting a suicide note with the text 'We are with you', followed by a group photo.

Flipping through the pages casually, Brooklyn stared at Christina's social account name in deep thought. The following day, Tuesday, March 27.

Court No. 9. After confirming that lawyers for both the prosecution and defense and their clients were present, Brooklyn did not announce the opening statement, but instead referred to the Mexican restaurant at noon yesterday.

"Mr. McCarthy." Brooklyn called the chubby young man's name. Maxie wore glasses and kept her head down the whole time, and when she heard her name, she subconsciously trembled.

"Do you know that lady?" Brooklyn asked. McCarthy shook his head

"No, I don't know her, in fact I was about to leave and I didn't bother to spill the sauce on her."

"Your Excellency, I swear, I have not revealed anything to him in connection with the eucalyptus." Brooklyn looked at the plaintiff's bench, his gaze on Jason Bull.

"I want you to be well aware that the power you hold in your hands will easily determine the fate of these young people." Brooklyn withdrew his gaze, reminded him, and announced the opening statement.

There was silence, and no one stood up to speak.

"The prosecution." Brooklyn stared at Benjamin, who was biting his ear with Jason Bull, and his voice raised slightly.

"Oh!" Benjamin hurriedly got up and walked to the jury.

"From the very beginning, the other side tried to explain what they were doing with intimacy, a private taste for playing cards." As the statement began, Benjamin gradually calmed down and his voice returned to a loud voice.

"But no matter how you interpret it, one thing is undeniable - they admitted what they did to my client!"

“obje!！” Louis stood up

"Your Excellency, may I object?"

“callsforspe”

“inmmatory”

"hearsay" [Note 1]

"This is what you said yourself when you pleaded and considered bail. Not hearsay. Benjamin immediately retorted.

"The objection is invalid." Brooklyn ruled. During the arraignment, what the defendant said and did could be used as evidence.

"Under this recognized premise, they violated the subjective will of our client, forcibly had sex with many people in front of them, with multiple people, and recorded video recordings. This is clearly indecent behavior. ”

"In the following meetings, the other party expressed strong contempt for our client, whistling, insulting and insulting gestures whenever our client was mentioned. It can be seen from this that the other party does not think that what he did is wrong at all. In fact, I don't think there is anything good to try at all, and the other party is wasting everyone's time by making a not guilty plea. As if to confirm Benjamin's description, no sooner had he finished speaking than invective rang out in the dock.

One of the team members pointed at Benjamin and shouted, 'Go home,' while another yelled at Benjamin, 'Have you been drained by them?'

''How are they doing?'' Do you want me to teach you two tricks? ''Remember to call me next time,' and the defendants burst out laughing.

Louis's face completely changed, and he was looking up at Coach Berwick Barot and Captain Barrett Barros beside him with a serious face.

Under the pressure of his gaze, the two turned back and whispered something to the defendants, and the crowd quickly fell silent.

But the effects were already there, and the juries looked into the dock with undisguised disgust.

Benjamin nodded to the jury bench and turned back to his seat. Louis clumped up the revised manuscript with a slight irritation and shoved it into the mouth of Barrett, who was talking to him, and shook his hand at the paper, but finally put it down, and threw it on the table.

The ball of paper bounced and rolled to the ground.

"Don't litter." Brooklyn's voice rang out. Louis walked to the jury bench and stiffly bent down to pick up the paper ball and stuff it into his pocket.

"Good morning, ladies and gentlemen." Louis raised the corners of his mouth at 45 degrees, put on his trademark smile and said hello.

The response was mediocre. The jurors stared at him coldly, not responding. He adjusted and continued to speak

"We have evidence that we are in a relationship." Although this was already cracked in advance by the visionary Benjamin, he said it.

"We also have evidence that the coercion said by the other party is false." After a slight pause, Louis said bluntly

"I'm a team of people who love the game, and there are 16 members of the coaching staff and 11 members of the team.

"They're all young lads, they may not be doing well, they only know how to train every day, and even in the general public's mind, they are not only rude and brutal on the field, but also off the field. Perhaps in the popular impression that there are only three things in their lives: parties, training, sex. But I hope that jurors will not look at them in this biased and label-oriented way. They may indeed be rude, and I know this as their defense lawyer. But they are people with independent souls. They are not labels and symbols. ”

"We have a lot of evidence to prove the innocence of my client, and I only hope that ladies and gentlemen will put aside their prejudice and labelling for a while." Louis made one last reiteration and simply returned to his seat.

As soon as one of the team members began to taunt, he realized what a bad impression his client had made on the jurors.

He realized that the manuscript he had prepared was no longer applicable, so he simply stated that he would speak with evidence.

Louis's confident remarks caused a slight commotion among the jurors, who looked at the plaintiffs with a look of scrutiny.

Luis barely stabilized the situation with his extremely rogue unconventional speech! Brooklyn took it all in his eyes and, after questioning the parties without adding anything, announced that the prosecution was opening the door to evidence.

The first evidence Benjamin adduced was the witness. A former cheerleader who graduated from Baruch College.

After swearing by his hand to the Bible, Benjamin came to the slightly uneasy witness.

"Do you know him?" Benjamin turned sideways and reached out to the head coach in the dock. Mr. Coach changed his usual arrogance after the appearance of the witness, bowed his head and said nothing.

"Acquaintance." The witness glanced at Mr. Head Coach and replied through gritted teeth.

"Do you know his name?" Benjamin continued to ask. witness

"Berwick Barot, he's the Meritorious Coach of Baruch Academy." Benjamin

"I heard you were a cheerleader when you were at Baruch Academy?"

"When I was a student at Baruch College, I joined the varsity cheerleading team." The witness kept his eyes on Mr. Head Coach.

The head coach kept his head down and did not make eye contact with the witnesses. Benjamin moved in the direction of the jury to allow for a wider field of view for the witnesses to 'admire'

"What do cheerleaders need to do?" The witness is still staring at the manager

"We have to train our dance moves, and when there's a game, we'll go out with the team and dance in the mall between games."

"We almost live and eat with the team, and we go wherever the team goes."

"We've been on all of New York State's collegiate league courts."

"After the win, we celebrate with the team."

"How to celebrate?" Benjamin asked, seizing the opportunity.

"Champagne, music." The witness's eyes became confused, lost in her memory, and she muttered

"We would have a party at the hotel where we were staying, and we would have a party when we got back to school. Students will be invited to join us. Sometimes it's outside of school, sometimes it's in the school auditorium. ”

"What do you do at the party?" Benjamin asked, in fact, the answer to this question is well known.

It's nothing more than alcohol and sex. Louis is right when he says it. These young men who sweat on the field are very energetic, they are young, they have good physical strength, they have amazing recovery ability, they are impulsive and they don't control their desires.

The witness's answer was as everyone had guessed. Above the party they will party, everyone will party, like crazy people.

The girls were scantily clad and bewitching, and the lads were shirtless or even wearing nothing at all, showing off their hormones to the opposite sex and the same sex naked.

At a party, two people, three people, or four or five people who look at each other quickly get tired of being together, and under the influence of alcohol, desires are amplified and weak self-control is washed away...... Strangely, this well-known thing was released through the mouths of witnesses, and it actually caused a burst of exclamations.

Brooklyn had to bang the gavel to maintain order.

"How did you meet Mr. Coach?" Benjamin throws out one last question. The witness came to her senses as she looked deeply at the coach.

The coach did not respond, but continued to keep his head down, like a child who had done something wrong.

"One time we won a contest against Yeshiva University." Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City that is located in Brooklyn.

"I sprained my ankle while dancing, didn't go to the celebration party, and went back to my room early. In the middle of the night, I couldn't sleep and was about to go out for a walk, when I met him as soon as I opened the door. The witness pointed to Mr. Coach, and his tone suddenly raised.

He was drunk and stepped out of the elevator with the help of his teammates. He saw me, complimented me on my figure, and laughed......"

"How do they compliment you on your figure?" Benjamin asked, seizing the opportunity.

They said...... They said that I danced well, had good body flexibility, and could do many difficult movements. The witness trembled slightly, and continued to speak

"The demon loudly agreed, and he said that he saw us dancing on the field tonight, and he was so old."

"He stared at me and said, 'You're so flexible, you must be able to do more in bed.'"

"I tried to get out of the way, but I was surrounded by them. The three of them pulled me into the room and ** me! ”

"Except for him," Benjamin gestured to the coach

"Aside from him, are the other two still there?" The witness shook his head with red eyes

"The other two are former captains and team members, and they are a year older than me and have graduated." Benjamin nodded, pulled out two tissues and handed them to her, turning to face the jury bench.

"The testimonials are enough to prove everything. At a party celebrating victory, they saw the witnesses and brazenly forced the witnesses to have sex with them. Three people! Benjamin held up three fingers

"No one is surprised! No one hesitated! No one objected! Everything falls into place, as if it were taken for granted! ”

"This is already a 'tradition' of the rugby team! They're used to it! ”

“obje!” Louis got up and shouted

"Trigger prejudice! Speculative speech! ”

"The opposition is valid. Please pay attention to what you have said. ”

"Jurors are invited to ignore the above statements." Brooklyn was quick to make a ruling, and although the words were addressed to Benjamin, his eyes kept going back and forth between the witnesses and the coaches.

According to Benjamin's description, the defendants should have taken everything for granted, and they thought that the cheerleaders, and even the girls who went to the party, were the fat that came to the door, and they were left to their picks and chooses.

If so, they shouldn't feel guilty! No one feels guilty about water after taking a sip of water, right?

But why did Mr. Coach bow his head and be so ashamed? He didn't even dare to look at the witnesses! Who would be so ashamed after taking a sip of water that they don't even have the courage to look at it?

It's so weird! Benjamin had returned to his seat, and Louis confidently approached the witness stand.

He straightened his shirt, buttoned it up, and stood still. This action made Brooklyn a little dazed. Stand up, buckle up, sit down, and unbutton it...... These habits are so similar to Wood Ward!

Wood Ward and Louis seemed to coincide in this moment.

"Do you remember who the other two were?" In Brooklyn's mind-wandering, Louis's first question is thrown out.