Chapter 151, doubts
The next day, Court No. 9. Something came as a slight surprise to Brooklyn. Lyrie Crewe was back in the gallery.
Now some media can't sit still. The bombing of the Baruch College cafeteria has attracted a lot of attention, and Lyry Crewe has appeared in the courtroom twice, what privacy is this expressing?
He expressed displeasure with the Brooklyn judge? Or are you interested in this eucalyptus? In the face of the reporters who were about to move, Lenley Crewe sat there for a long time, and after Brooklyn entered the courtroom, he raised his index finger around - shh~
"Please all stand, e. . Court Y.9 is now in session, presided by the Honourable Judge Brooklyn Lee. Bob stood on the side of the judge's bench and shouted in a neutral voice.
Brooklyn walked up to the judge's seat, waved everyone to sit down, and then put away the thermos cup and other items in his hand, and began to inquire about the presence of the prosecution and defense lawyers and parties.
After receiving a reply from all those present, the trial was declared to continue. Anne Aldington did not adjust her defense strategy, and she continued to present her evidence in a step-by-step manner.
Brooklyn didn't want to hear it. Rigid, sluggish, old-fashioned, slow to react, inflexible. This is Brooklyn's evaluation of today's District Attorney's Office through Ben Yu.
After the loss of Wood Ward and Ben Stone, the capacity of the District Attorney's Office plummeted.
Yesterday, the defense submitted a fake suicide note, which is obviously unfavorable to the defense, and chose to submit evidence even though it knew that it was unfavorable to itself, what does this mean?
It shows that people must have the next move! It shows that people must have the confidence to reverse! It shows that there has been a new change in the eucalyptus!
But none of these things were seen by the local prosecutors. Anne Aldington's initial performance made Brooklyn feel bad for her, but now she doesn't notice it.
It's not her responsibility alone. The District Attorney's Office's handling of the case is not a simple and irrelevant method, and there will be internal communication between them.
Based on the defense's performance yesterday, if one of Ben Stone and Wood Ward had been alive, Brooklyn would have never believed they would have noticed.
With such an obvious anomaly, the District Attorney's Office wouldn't think that the defense was a bunch of big fools who shot themselves in the foot, right?
These thoughts swirled through her mind, and Anne Aldington had already presented the evidence. As Brooklyn expected, the defense didn't dwell on her at all, only rebutted a few glaring holes, and then ended hastily.
When it was the defense's turn to present evidence, they brought Peter Johnson's mailbox. In the deleted email, which has been recovered by technical means, a suicide note lies quietly there.
The contents of the suicide note are exactly the same as those submitted yesterday. The defense then added the sender's email address, which was the email address of Peter Johnson's girlfriend.
The shipping time is shown as February 8. By that time, Peter Johnson's girlfriend had committed suicide. The defense then submitted another supplement, and after technical recovery, Peter Johnson's girlfriend's mailbox also contained the suicide note email.
The difference is that she has two here. One was sent a year ago and the other three months ago.
Three months ago was the time when Peter Johnson's girlfriend committed suicide.
"After several traces, we finally determined that the original source of the suicide note email was Christina Besili, the cheerleader of Baruch College." Quint explained
Peter Johnson's girlfriend had not yet committed suicide when she received the email from Christina Besili. According to the information provided by the school, the day after receiving the email, Peter Johnson's girlfriend applied to the school for a leave of absence. ”
Three months ago, she took a leave of absence. But shortly after the end of the suspension, he took another suspension. The next day, he committed suicide. ”
"After my girlfriend committed suicide, my client, Peter Johnson, kept his girlfriend's mobile phone as a memorial and found this suicide note." After going through the timeline for everyone, Quint continued
"There was clearly misleading information in the suicide note." Quint pointed them out one by one.
"In the suicide note, Christina claimed in the voice of Peter Johnson's girlfriend Lina Young that she had been harassed many times during her time at school, and my client, Peter Johnson, came forward and was beaten in retaliation by the harasser. Lina Young had reported the matter to the school, and the principal interviewed the harassers, who gathered a group of people to push Lina Young and Peter Johnson to the football field that night, and carried them out in front of the coaching staff and several players and cheerleaders. Her boyfriend, Peter Johnson, resisted several times and was stopped by the coaching staff. ”
The above part is the experience of Peter Johnson and his girlfriend Lina Young, and Peter Johnson should be impressed by the above part. But the following part is something that only Lina Young herself knows, and Peter Johnson does not know. ”
Kristina referred to Lina Young as she had been threatened. The abuser also videotaped the whole process and threatened her to be on call, otherwise the video would be posted on the school forum. ”
"The suicide note said that he was forced to participate in many celebratory drinking parties, and finally he was humiliated and chose to commit suicide."
"According to the investigation, Peter Johnson was prosecuted for breaking the heads of three classmates with a plate at a celebration party."
The first half of this suicide note is true, the last sentence is true, and the middle is not true. If you were Peter Johnson, what would you think? Quint didn't intend to give everyone too much time to think, so he said directly
"I'll think it's all the fault of those three classmates!"
"The more I think about it, the angrier I get!"
"As deep as I love Lina Young, I hate them as much."
"I'll do whatever it takes to kill them and avenge Lina Young, right?" Quint snapped his fingers, his expression growing excited.
"It's like a hypnotic technique, and every time Peter Johnson looks at it, he deepens his hatred. It's like I mentioned red repeatedly on the first day. ”
So Peter Johnson decided to put his hatred into action.
"But that's contrary to what we know."
"We only confirmed yesterday that the four suspects are three other people besides the gray wolf mask, and they are the three people that Peter Johnson is going to attack."
"If Peter Johnson's hatred is directed at these three people, why is he pulling them together?"
"Why did these three listen to Peter Johnson?"
"We know from the surveillance footage that the other three were not restrained. They are in a state of complete freedom. If it was really Peter Johnson threatening them, like planting a bomb in their house or something. They could have shouted for help and escaped. ”
No matter how bad it is, when the FBI and NYPD surrounded the cafeteria, the three of them could subdue Peter Johnson and hand him over to the police or the FBI. Instead of staying silent, then detonating a bomb and being stabbed to death with a knife. ”
"It's all very unreasonable, completely unreasonable."
"I'm looking forward to the prosecution giving me and my client a perfect explanation." Quint's statement was more than just a case of evidence, it sounded more like a challenge to the District Attorney's Office.
Questioning their inability to break the case, they casually arrested and convicted individuals. Questioning their incompetence and perfunctory, only thinking about covering up the truth and not thinking about their own work.
Quint's resounding cross-examination caused quite a stir in the courtroom. Brooklyn rang the gavel, stared at Jason in the dock, and sighed in his heart.
If Christina had not disappeared, if Christina had been able to testify in court, the defendant would have almost turned the tables.
It's a pity that Christina is missing! Without Christina's testimony, the defense's conclusion on the 'girlfriend's suicide note' becomes speculation rather than fact, which cannot be completely reversed.
It seems that they delayed the first two days in order to find Christina! Thinking of Christina's disappearance, Brooklyn couldn't help but think of Dexter.
I don't know if he received the report. Now the pressure is on Anne Aldington's side. Before, the two sides were very happy to fight back and forth, but in the blink of an eye, the defense directly leveraged the foundation.
The previous debate between the two sides has been over what Peter Johnson used as a eucalyptus and what his plan was, but now the defense has directly sacrificed a weapon of mass murder and pointed to the core of the problem.
Peter Johnson as a motive! If Peter Johnson's motive exists, it is contrary to the reality that he should not be pulling three targets together.
If Peter Johnson's motive for doing so does not exist...... A person doesn't even have a motive to commit eucalyptus, how can he be a murderer?
It seems that no matter how the prosecution answers, it is wrong. Even better, Quint's last sentence pointed directly at the District Attorney's Office and the police: There are so many problems, why do they end up in a hurry?
This would earn Peter Johnson a lot of sympathy points. Persecuted by the government, wronged by the police, and falsely accused by the District Attorney's Office, three grievances that the federal people like to see are perfectly combined, Peter Johnson is on the verge of becoming a Buddha.
Jason Bull also regrets that their defense strategy was not perfect because of Christina's disappearance, but it is remarkable that they have been able to get to this point.
He smiled and looked at Brooklyn, a little ostentatious in it. only to find that Brooklyn was not looking at him, but at Peter Johnson beside him.
This made Jason Bull frown. He glanced back at Peter Johnson, who shrugged his shoulders, and his joy was swept away.
Why staring at him? This question has been haunting his mind, making him faintly uneasy.
Previously, he believed that the trial had basically ended at this point. All that's left is acquittal, or plea bargaining and things like that.
But Brooklyn's scrutinizing gaze cast a shadow over his joy. He knew all too well what Brooklyn was capable of, both as a lawyer and as a judge.
…………………… Anne Aldington was stunned by the defense's long-planned combination punch.
A crack appeared in her grim mask, and she flipped through the list of evidence with some impatience.
Brooklyn had to remind her
"Prosecution, please pay attention to the time."
"Prosecution, do you have no objection to the defense presenting evidence?" Anne Aldington flipped through the pages for a long time, and mustered up the courage to get up and ask Brooklyn for an adjournment.
Adjournment, of course! She is probably full of pulp now, and she hasn't figured out how she can win one moment, and why she overturns the next moment.
But give her time and she'll figure it out? Brooklyn was skeptical. If you replace it with this ...... Brooklyn shook her head and denied her application.
"We've only been in court for less than two hours." Brooklyn muttered and asked again
"Does the prosecution have no objection to the defense's presentation of evidence in this round?" Anne Aldington shook her head and sat down through gritted teeth.
Brooklyn banged the gavel and announced that it was the prosecution's turn to present evidence. Anne Aldington hesitated for a long time, and finally chose a transcript of the parties.
By the time she made the request, Brooklyn had already been a little impressed with her. As a prosecutor who is strong in detective reasoning thinking, her ability to adapt to emergencies is vividly highlighted.
There is only one feature of this transcript - many. Thick and many! The police made a record of the hostages held in the cafeteria.
It would take a long time just to finish this transcript. After encountering an unexpected move by the defense, Anne's first choice was to apply for an adjournment, and after the adjournment was rejected, she immediately chose this stinking and long transcript to adduce evidence.
Just explaining this transcript can buy her most of the time, and then say something casually according to the transcript, and the time of the day will pass today.
It is not an adjournment, it is better than an adjournment. The truth is exactly what Brooklyn expected. Anne Aldington started the first day like the same exercises.
She read the transcript in an extremely boring tone, in a flat, straightforward tone, pausing from time to time to explain it.
The whole process is as boring as a scumbag in an advanced math class. The auditorium and jury were quickly hypnotized by her, and two jurors even yawned.
She didn't stop, she continued to read and explain. It wasn't until Brooklyn called an adjournment that she read less than a third of the time.
Brooklyn gave her a deep look and turned back to the inner court. This is not the same as the situation where the prosecution and defense go on to talk at length.
She is presenting the evidence, and she can choose to summarize the process as short as possible and summarize it in one sentence, or she can choose to read it out at length and word for word.
This is her power, and the court has no power to prevent either prosecution and defense from presenting evidence. Brooklyn could only let her continue to chant.
On the way back, Bob was already complaining to Brooklyn about Annie's chanting Dafa. Nelly rubbed her fingers, also a little impatient.
She needed to write down every word Anne said. Anne launched the chanting of the scriptures, but it cost her old life.
Lei didn't care, and traveled the whole time with his head held high. Brooklyn waved his hand and shifted the conversation to lunch.
In view of the fact that there may be more people in front of the courthouse who are concerned about the bombing of the cafeteria of Baruch College, after a brief discussion, several people unanimously decided to send someone out to buy lunch.
Then the eyes of the three of them focused on the thunder who was outside the world. Ray was stared at for a long time before he reacted.
"What are you looking at me for?"