Chapter 199, buckle each other's hats
Harvey didn't just say what Brooklyn was thinking, he was also very blunt. There is no federal age limit for witnesses, and Teresa theoretically meets the requirements to testify.
But as long as the jury is in good spirits and the judge's brain is not eaten by zombies, it should be clear how low the credibility of the witness testimony of a 4-year-old child is.
This is especially true when the 4-year-old child is the child of one of the parties. Maybe a piece of candy, a sentence of 'remember to tell Uncle Judge in court what Daddy/Mommy just taught you', and the child's testimony is already 108,000 miles away from the truth.
Brooklyn couldn't understand why Jason Bull continued to bring 4-year-olds to testify in court, and at such an early stage.
He thought that the 4-year-old child was going to appear in the later stage, and when the two sides were unable to argue and fought until there was no substantive evidence to submit, he appeared as a killer weapon to win the sympathy of the jury and tilt the balance of victory.
As a result, he submitted it in the third round! Brooklyn really couldn't guess what Jason Bull was thinking.
The law does not prohibit it, and 4-year-old Teresa was led into the courtroom by Ray. Teresa was a little brown-haired girl who had been looking around since she stepped into the courtroom, showing no nervousness.
This relieved Brooklyn. He wasn't very good at dealing with children, and he had a bad impression of them.
The last time I talked to a little boy who was very self-care, I almost burned to death. Teresa was led to the witness stand by Ray.
A small 4-year-old girl, not as tall as the chair in the witness stand. Winston, who was closest to him, suddenly fell in love and was about to get up to help, but fortunately he remembered his identity as a juror and sat back down.
Brooklyn didn't move, but Ray stood in a chair with Teresa in his arms, half of his head peeking out of the witness table.
Brooklyn crouched down and took the Bible.
"What's your name?" Brooklyn didn't go straight to the process and let the witnesses swear by the Bible.
Harvey was right when he said that Theresa probably wouldn't even understand what she was doing.
"Teresa." Teresa replied. Brooklyn gave a standardized smile and two compliments, successfully causing Teresa to shrink back two steps in fright.
"Do you know what you're doing standing here?" Brooklyn was helpless, but because of his duties, he could only continue to ask.
"Testify." Teresa said, as if she remembered something, a little excited, and the fear of Brooklyn just now was gone
"Tell the judge what Terrissa saw."
"Teresa, honesty is a very good character, so, are you an honest child?" Brooklyn asked.
Teresa nodded vigorously.
"Awesome." Brooklyn praised
"Someone else will ask you a question in a moment, and you have to answer honestly, and if their question makes you feel uncomfortable, you look at me." Brooklyn pointed at herself
"I'm the judge you said, the judge is a big, powerful person, if something makes you uncomfortable, you tell me, and I'll punish them." Teresa nodded vigorously.
Brooklyn said solemnly
"But Teresa, we must remember that we must not lie, even if we do not know the answer to the question." Teresa nodded vigorously again, looking a little silly and cute.
There were already several jurors on the jury bench who couldn't hold back their smiles with their mouths covered. Even the politician Winston looked in a cheerful mood with the corners of his mouth raised.
Brooklyn motioned for Ray to carry Teresa to the witness table and sit down, and in order to prevent Teresa from being dishonest and falling off the witness table, Ray stood beside the witness table.
This obscured the view of many jurors looking at Teressa. Winston quietly stabbed Ray with his pen, and Ray knowingly stepped aside.
Brooklyn returned to the bench to announce
"In view of the fact that the witness is only 4 years old and mentally immature, the court ruled that the witness can not be held accountable for his own testimony, and correspondingly, the jury should note that the testimony of the witnesses in this round is not very credible. It will not be used as key evidence. Actually, it's nonsense.
Brooklyn couldn't guess why Jason Bull had asked Teresa to testify at this time, but one of the purposes of bringing Teresa to testify was to gain sympathy.
No one expects a 4-year-old child's testimony to be used as key evidence, and her presence in court shows that her role is not to testify at all, but to be emotional.
Let's take a look at how everyone on the jury did when Teresa showed up. Neither hand could cover that smile.
"In addition, please note that the witness is a little girl who is only 4 years old, please pay attention to your words and tone when asking questions, if someone asks a 4-year-old girl some questions that should not be asked, I will invite him out of the courtroom, forever."
At the same time, please note that for the sake of the growth and privacy of Tagrisso, the images, photos, and names of Tagrissa shall not be published on any Internet, print media, TV news, etc. Whoever violates the rules, Court 9 will ban all relevant personnel under its umbrella from entering the courtroom. ”
"Alright gentlemen, let's get started." Tronco came to the witness table, half-crouched to eye level with Teresa.
"What's your name?" Trunco asked.
"Teresa." Teresa wasn't afraid of life, and she was clutching the stun gun on Ray's waist and trying to pull it out to play.
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"Teresa, remember that dinner day, you were going to watch Snoopy, and Dad came across a show when he was changing channels, and you asked him 'Are they fighting?' Teresa was a little dazed.
It can be seen that the ATC is unusual, and it really does not conduct 'on-the-job training' for witnesses this time.
"It's just two people, fighting in bed. Remember? Trunco asked. They had Teresa's father ask this question, and Teresa replied 'yes' and clearly recounted what she had seen.
More clearly than her father remembers. Strictly speaking, the problem of Tranco is inducement, but considering that the witness is a 4-year-old child, the relevant boundaries are also infinitely widened.
Teresa continued to shake her head and grabbed at Ray, nearly pulling him off the belt. She developed a keen interest in stun guns.
"Your Excellency, Judge." Instead of continuing to ask, Trunco asked Brooklyn
"Can you show the picture to the witnesses?" Brooklyn looked up and looked at Trunco
"What do you think?" Trunco touched his nose in embarrassment and continued to crouch down to deal with Teressa. After his tireless efforts, Teresa finally lost interest in the stun gun, nodded and described what she had seen on television at the time.
Teresa described the most primitive mission movement of mankind in an innocent voice, causing all the adults present to be embarrassed and embarrassed.
Teresa didn't know what it was, although a 4-year-old child had a sense of shame, but it wasn't much, let alone being ashamed of an act that she couldn't understand at all, even an adult couldn't do it, how could she criticize a 4-year-old girl?
So when Teresa recounted that she had seen the process of X sex later, someone couldn't hold back. The jury had already covered their mouths and exclaimed.
Hearing Teressa's detailed description of the process, a lady who is a teacher by profession couldn't hold back any longer, stood up with her mouth covered and hurried out.
Then the second, then the third...... There were also people leaving the auditorium. These people are disgusted by what they hear.
Especially when these contents came out of the mouth of a cute little girl of 4 years old, they couldn't help but spit it out.
Teresa stopped speaking and looked at Brooklyn with a puzzled expression. Brooklyn had to interrupt the trial and let Ray coax the little girl to play.
After waiting for more than 20 minutes, the people who withdrew returned one after another, and the trial continued. Trenco doesn't need to ask anymore.
He stood up and faced the jury bench
"I'm sorry, this is my profession, and I'm just like you, and I feel sick when I hear this coming out of the mouth of a 4-year-old girl, and I'm actually going to throw up."
"Sex is beautiful, we have always advocated looking at sex with the right eyes, we are in an open world, not in the Middle Ages, not under the rule of the Holy See, we don't have to be ashamed to mention sex, we give sex a beautiful imagination."
"But there should be a limit to this openness, and this openness should not be for a 4-year-old girl!"
"I can't imagine, I'm sorry, I can't imagine how many children like Theresa there are in the Federation and the world, it's just unfortunate."
"The defense has single-handedly created this misfortune, but they are still indifferent, they think it's nothing, yes, of course it's nothing, it's not their children who are suffering all this anyway!" Tranco managed to transfer fire to the head.
The jury, especially the ladies who had just vomited, looked at them differently. Trenco nodded slightly and returned to the plaintiff's seat.
Harvey got up and went to the jury, and instead of questioning Teressa, he went straight to the jury.
"This is indeed sad news. But before we can do that, we should sort out the facts, who is responsible for this misfortune? He gestured to Teressa, who was being held by Ray
"Is it Teresa?"
"Or Teresa's parents?"
"We live in an open world, we have easy access to information, there are countless rumors on the Internet, there are propaganda in support of D sucking, there is a phone number of J girl, and the video store has a CD to play cards."
"According to statistics, 83% of video stores in New York City sell discs. Many of them are located near the school. ”
"But why aren't so many children seeing things they shouldn't?"
"Isn't that the responsibility of parents as guardians?"
"Shouldn't parents help children filter out information they shouldn't?"
"The world is completely open to everyone, good and bad, fashionable and unfashionable, there is no way, we can't build a world made up entirely of children, we can't completely separate adults from minors."
"Parents should play this role in helping children to sift through and distinguish information, rather than putting all the information in front of the child and blaming the person who posted the information when the child is exposed to information that should not be exposed."
"Just like now."
"Parents don't do their part, so they blame others for all this."
"If we follow the plaintiff's logic, we should prohibit the sale and brewing of alcohol, because federal law prohibits the sale of alcohol to minors."
"We did that in the last century. The results are known to all. ”
"We should also ban the recording of cards and prohibit adults from playing cards, because playing cards is likely to be inadvertently broken by children. This has the potential to lead to bad sexual impressions in children. ”
"We should also ban the publication of any information that children should not see, because children may be exposed to it."
"We had better return to the most primitive social state, we want to be backward compatible, for the sake of children, adults should live in the world of children."
"Is that reasonable?" Harvey asked
"Is this really reasonable?"
"Throwing oneself off one's responsibilities and demanding a change from the whole world because of one's own negligence is the most disgusting behavior!"
"In the end, I don't want to ask little Teresa about anything." Harvey said
"Enough, enough."
"Because of the irresponsibility of her parents, little Teresa saw a scene that she shouldn't have seen, and even though I represent the defendant, I still can't bear to let little Teresa remember all this."
"I only hope that little Teresa can forget the bad memories left by her parents' irresponsibility, and I hope she can forget it as soon as possible, instead of being repeatedly questioned and mentioned in front of so many people."
"Although the good judge has long taken this into account and forbade the recording and dissemination of relevant information, it will still be remembered by everyone present." Harvey finally nodded at Brooklyn and returned to his seat.
As you can tell from the faces of the jurors, Harvey succeeded. He succeeded in reversing Fang's decline and put the cauldron on the plaintiff's head in turn.
Brooklyn asked the plaintiff if he needed to add more. Trunco tried to get up, but was pulled by Jason Bull.
So Brooklyn said goodbye to Teresa and watched Ray lead Teresa away and hand her over to her mother.
Obviously, Harvey's response was completely out of Jason Bull's plan, which forced Jason Bull to stop Tranko from continuing the question.
Originally, Teresa's testimony was extremely unfavorable and almost crucified, but Harvey's 'big shift' directly transferred the jury's sympathy and dissatisfaction with Teresa to her parents, believing that it caused unfortunate reasons for her parents.
"It's the defense's turn to present evidence." Brooklyn left a mark on the indictment and spoke. Harvey stood up calmly, smiling.
"Your Excellency, I have a new piece of evidence - a witness who is also a loyal user of a paid channel."
"This witness is similar to Teresa's father, who also has a 6-year-old son."
"He can prove that the plaintiff's claims are groundless and that some things could have been avoided." At this point, Brooklyn has understood that the defense strategy is to attack the point of attribution, so that children can see that the responsibility of adult programs becomes guardians, not program providers.
At the same time, the evidence they submitted was not on the list of evidence, and if Brooklyn guessed correctly, there would be no evidence on the list of evidence in the future.
They have taken a more clever approach than their own application for an adjournment – allowing the other party to apply for an adjournment on their own initiative.