Chapter 185, Professional Blind Spots
Jason Gideon did not join the discussion. He leaned over to Dexter's side and took a few autopsy photos and flipped through them.
The number of photographs is large, and in addition to the photographs of the immobilization of the corpse, there are also photographs of forensic autopsies.
"Tsk~" Jason Gideon sighed, glanced at Dexter, and exclaimed
"The technique of going under the knife is really good." In the photo, each knife dissected by the deceased is very precise, and according to the ruler in the photo, the forensic technique of the main knife dissection is very skillful, which can be called superb.
Dexter glanced at Jason Gideon, silently raised a standardized smile, and moved to the side.
Jason Gideon said, pointing to the wound
"The murderer was armed with a gun and a knife, but he did not have systematic training, and the deceased was shot several times, but none of them were fatal, including sharp weapon wounds, here." He picked out the picture of the deceased's forearm, which was the wound
"It can be discerned from the wound, the initial wound is clearly hesitant, the wound is shallow and long, with pauses, and as time goes on, the wound gradually deepens, the length becomes shorter, the wound is straight, and the murderer begins to become excited."
"After being cut, the deceased began to flee, and the murderer chased after him and shot at the deceased—"
"It's more like a hunt."
"It's torture." That is, there are three madman killers in New York Harbor, who are armed with knives and guns, and after the killing, they become agitated and emotionally unstable.
It is likely to continue to commit eucalyptus. ………………………… On Tuesday, Brooklyn's long-awaited class action lawsuit was in its hands.
This type of case is not very popular among lawyers because it requires the lawyer to bear the cost of litigation and can get a higher return if the plaintiff wins the lawsuit.
If you lose the lawsuit, the lawyer will lose all your money. Moreover, class action lawsuits often involve mass incidents, and the people standing opposite the plaintiff are usually large companies or large groups, and they have better legal teams, and these legal teams are proficient in class actions, and they can find excuses to delay in every possible way when they know that the company will not win, so that the plaintiff's lawyer will continue to bear the litigation costs, and finally directly drag the plaintiff down.
Class actions are more like buying lottery tickets for lawyers, and even lawyers who love the profession from the bottom of their hearts will seriously consider taking on a class action lawsuit other than Lyleigh Crewe.
Class actions are not only unpopular with lawyers, but also from the plaintiff community in most cases. The plaintiff community certainly likes class actions, because the nature of class actions means that it is not possible to require all plaintiffs to appear in court, they usually just need to prove that they are attributable to the plaintiffs, and then they don't have to do anything but wait for the outcome of the lawsuit.
If they win, they will also be compensated, and if they lose, they have nothing to lose – perhaps a minute spent filling out the spreadsheet.
However, the plaintiff group is to choose to represent the parties in the trial on behalf of the plaintiff group. Plaintiffs are not willing to attend court for a few dollars, let alone spend months or even years on end for a few dollars in damages.
So, while there are a lot of federal cases that can be used for class actions, not many people actually file class actions.
And in most of these few class action lawsuits, there is no lawyer willing to take over. When a lawyer is found and a lawyer is willing to take over and the indictment is submitted, the court will often take a cautious approach due to various considerations.
Plus summons, preliminary evidence collection, pre-trial hearings, formal hearings, judgments, judgment enforcement...... A civil lawsuit can take months or even years to work for, and even if the plaintiff wins on behalf of the party, he can only receive a small amount of compensation, and the defendant, whether he wins or loses, as long as he is involved in the class action, it is a major blow to his reputation, and the judge takes time and effort to solve only one case.
Class actions are unfriendly to the plaintiff, the defendant and the judge. Brooklyn wants to hold a class action lawsuit, not only to cheer for Lenley Crewe as a member of the judiciary, but also to build up a resume and aim for the position of chief justice.
There are 10 million kinds of bad things about class action lawsuits, but there is only one thing – it can quickly increase its reputation and gain the favor of the public.
Due to the nature of class actions, in practice, most class actions can be decided in favor of the plaintiff with their eyes closed.
Because very few people are willing to spend time and effort suing a behemoth for $2. Even in the capital base camp of the Federation, the people still have little affection for the capitalist class represented by large corporations, and they are more sympathetic to the plaintiffs who stand opposite the capital, and they hope that the plaintiffs will win.
At Brooklyn's behest, Bob selected three class action indictments—no shortage of class action indictments in any court.
The first is that the plaintiff sued on behalf of the parties for the broadcast of adult programs on a pay-per-view channel during dinner time, which had a negative impact on families and minors.
The second is that a consumer sued a chewing gum, saying that it would not completely freshen the breath as advertised.
The last one is special in that it is a lawsuit filed by New Yorkers against the Welfare Lottery for cheating in Powerball, accumulating high prizes and deliberately not allowing people to win.
Representatives of the plaintiffs swore in the complaint that the fucai company was secretly manipulating everything, and they would first count the numbers purchased by lottery players, and then publish a number that no one bought.
Brooklyn read it for only one minute before choosing the first indictment. He chose to accept the class action lawsuit this time with a strong purpose and utilitarianism, he can't really put the cart before the horse, put aside the judge's own duties, go to the camp for promotion, he is a criminal judge, it is impossible to spend too long on civil matters.
The standard of punishment for the chewing gum lawsuit is very similar, and it is a very standard template for a class action lawsuit. There are many plaintiffs – there may be hundreds, tens of millions of chewing gum consumers.
The common problem is that chewing gum doesn't have the fresher breath than advertised. Typical defense or assertion - the chewing gum proposed by several persons acting as parties in the complaint does not achieve the effect claimed in the advertisement, i.e., false advertising.
Representing the parties is able to represent the interests of the group - they are the only ones who sue the gum, and that is enough.
For judges, there is a very difficult point to define, which is the fresh breath. The plaintiff sued the chewing gum for not being as fresh as the advertisement, but in the advertisement attached to the complaint, the gum party did not claim that it could achieve a certain level.
It only says that it can completely freshen its breath. What is a thorough freshening of breath? It's a hard point to define.
Maybe it's the industry standard, maybe it's the law, but that's a little too difficult for the criminal judge in Brooklyn.
As for the last one, Brooklyn believes that not only the lawsuit representative, but all those who have purchased welfare lottery tickets believe that the welfare lottery company is secretly 'cheating' so that they did not win.
What the actual situation is, no one knows. It's going to be a piece of.
Unless the Supreme People's Court issues a similar precedent as the basis for its ruling, this case can be brought to the end of mankind.
So, it only took Brooklyn a minute to select the first book. It's good to sue for adult programming at dinner time.
Check to see if there's an adult show and then check if it's dinner time. Come to an end! The evidence collection is simple, and the adjudication criteria are clear.
What's more, he is an important mouthpiece of the Democratic Party, and he can make good on his promise to help Winston, a Republican who has run for governor of New York to the point where most of them have withdrawn, except for his old rival, a Democratic congressman.
"That's it." Brooklyn picks the indictment for the first TV show lawsuit and asks Bob to send the rest of the indictment back.
The judge on duty has done nothing but read the contents of the indictment and accepted the indictment on behalf of the court after confirming that it meets the standards.
The defendant, CNN, did not even know that he was being charged. Brooklyn learned about the situation and had to ask Bob to go to the judge on duty and remind him that Ben was not done with the preliminary process — you should at least send CNN a court subpoena to inform them of the indictment.
Bob quickly brought back the opinion of the judge on duty.
“…… In short, he meant to put us in charge. Bob concluded after repeating the words of the judge on duty with a strange expression.
The judge on duty in June was unlucky, having been exhausted by the mass 'violence' of New Yorkers last week, tossed by the indictments, and Brooklyn heard that he was too busy to even eat lunch last week.
As a result, a large number of plaintiffs have to withdraw their lawsuits again this week, and he has not been able to eat lunch.
"There are still many people who have withdrawn the lawsuit?" Brooklyn asked. Bob smiled and nodded, describing to Brooklyn the magnificent scene of the judge's office on duty.
"Go and send a subpoena to CNN informing them that they've been charged." After listening to this, Brooklyn decided to help the poor judge on duty, and ordered.
"Inform both parties to come over tomorrow afternoon for the pre-trial." …………………… David's hunch was accurate.
This morning, the NYPD received another call to the police, and three more bodies were found in New York Harbor. The three deceased were in a similar condition to the two deceased yesterday, with defensive stab wounds and bullets in the body, the only difference probably being that they did not fall into the sea, but died at the end of a small alley.
The Eucalyptus team and BAU quickly rushed to the scene to investigate. One of the female deceased caught their attention.
David used the evidence bag to pick up a few transparent fragments from the front of the female deceased's clothes and examined them carefully.
The three deceased were packed into body bags and transported back to NYPD headquarters. Soon the identity of the deceased was verified. The two deceased, who were the same as yesterday's deceased, were also Boris Steamship Cargo Company employees, and were also present in Mr. Seafarer's 'campaign team' and in Mr. Seaman's network.
The female dead were very different from them. The other four deceased, all male, seafarers, middle-aged, able-bodied, and employees of Boris Steamship Freight, were inextricably linked to the shooting of Mr. Seaman.
The female deceased was a student at Baruch College, and she had nothing to do with Mr. Seafarer and the other four deceased.
After a simple investigation, it was found that the female deceased was nothing special, like tens of millions of young people in the Federation, she liked to chase stars, updated her social accounts frequently, was burdened with heavy 'student' loans, liked to watch the team train, had four boyfriends, and the last one broke up a month ago, she loves to surf the Internet and use the latest mobile phone.
By any measure, she had no connection to the other four deceased. The only thing they have in common is about the bullets in their bodies.
The bullets from the bodies of the female deceased have been removed and have been verified to be consistent with some of the bullets found in the bodies of the other two deceased persons found today.
At the seminar, Dexter was once again the first 'lucky one' to speak. He was actually quite reluctant.
"The two deceased are basically the same as the deceased found yesterday," Dexter summed up the situation of the two deceased in one sentence, and then focused on the female deceased.
"She had no defensive wounds on her body, and compared to the other deceased, who were shot before and after, all the bullets in her body came from behind."
"She had a blue mark on the nail of her right index finger, which may have been a pinching wound caused by an irregular posture when she pulled the trigger." After a concise introduction, Dexter handed David the thick autopsy report and walked back to the corner and sat down.
Jason Gideon, who was also sitting in the corner, voiced his guess for Dexter
"She could be one of the murderers." Dexter glanced at Jason Gideon with a standardized smile on his face.
"This speculation is very plausible." David got up, flipped through the autopsy report, and continued
"The clothing of the female deceased was very different from that of the other deceased."
"She's dressed more like an outdoor enthusiast."
"It's June, and it's about to enter July, the temperature in New York has begun to rise, and most people have begun to opt for skirts or shorts, and on this premise, the tights worn by the female deceased make her look like a sports enthusiast who was innocently implicated after accidentally breaking into a crime scene."
"But the fibers we found on her indicate that she was wearing at least one layer of clothing at the time of her eucalyptus."
"And shoes. The female deceased was found barefoot, and based on the shoe prints left at the scene, we compared the shoe prints to confirm that she was wearing a pair of snow combat boots at the time. ”
In addition to this, the burning of the clothes on her back also confirmed this. The female deceased was indeed dressed outside. ”
"We have two directions regarding the whereabouts of the female deceased's coat."
"One is that it was picked up by passers-by. New York Harbor has a lot of people in flux, and there are many wanderers gathering, and her clothes may have been stolen by wanderers. ”
"The second is to be taken away by accomplices."
"This shows that her clothes are likely to give away information about her accomplices."
"Either way, we need to find the clothes as soon as possible." David consulted with Jason Gideon and began to assign tasks.
When the others were almost gone, he rushed to the technical department to ask about the results of the fragments retrieved from the female deceased.