Chapter 216, Pure Edition

The Heimlik maneuver is a first aid method to clear a blockage of a foreign body in the upper airway. The specific method is to hold the abdomen from behind, make a fist with one hand, and place the side of the thumb on the patient's abdomen; The other hand is clenched into a fist, and the abdomen is pressed inwards and upwards with rapid impact, repeatedly, rhythmically and forcefully, to form an air flow that flushes the foreign body out.

Dexter explained, and everyone, including Brooklyn, was surprised. Robert Bales was the only one around the deceased, and the indentations on his body proved that it was clearly not himself who used the Heimlich maneuver on him.

It's Robert Bales! In everyone's surprise, Dexter has already begun to explain. He seemed a little too excited and proactive, and directly took the autopsy report, opened it, and showed a few pictures to everyone.

It was an indentation on the deceased's body.

"After measurement and comparison, the finger marks on the deceased's abdomen matched Robert Bales' thumb, and the indentations on both sides of the deceased's chest coincided with the width of Robert Bales' forearm."

"In addition, after further autopsy, it was found that the deceased's sternum was broken, which was caused by compression. Robert Bales DNA was detected in the deceased's mouth. Dexter explained confidently, turning the pages with his hands, not even reading the contents of the report, knowing everything by heart.

"In other words, the deceased had experienced CPR first aid before his death." CPR first aid, also known as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, is due to the need for hard compressions to restore cardiopulmonary function, and the patient is often pressed until the sternum is broken, but the sternum rupture is nothing compared to death.

CPR is a very strenuous task that requires the practitioner to compress at a rate of 80 to 100 compressions per minute and to a depth of 5 to 6 centimeters.

It's CPR again, it's Heimlich maneuver, and it sounds like Robert Bales isn't killing people, he's saving people.

The jurors couldn't help but add the missing storyline to their minds: Robert Bales angrily broke into the Chevrolet owner's home, intending to kill his son, only to find that the Chevrolet owner's son was choking.

Robert Bales looked at the little boy who fell to the ground, breathing painfully and hard, and thought of his own child, and his heart was at war with heaven and man, and his expression changed several times, and finally human nature triumphed over animal nature.

He resolutely put aside his hatred and picked up the poor little boy for treatment. The Heimlich maneuver did not work, and the little boy was already blue and breathing weakly.

He's dying! Robert Bales laid the boy flat on the floor and began CPR.

He pressed hard and shouted loudly: Come on! Breathe! Come alive! Come on! boy!

You can do it! But the reality is cruel, and death ruthlessly takes away the little boy. Robert Bales' compressions gradually stopped.

Perhaps he had slapped the floor hard and cried out in pain. He cried that he couldn't save his own child, and he couldn't save the life of the little boy in front of him.

He blamed it all on the boy's mother. That's when the owner of the Chevrolet was kidnapped. See!

Logical and reasonable! Several jurors covered their mouths and shook their heads to look at Robert Bales in the dock, their eyes filled with infinite sympathy.

What has happened to this man! The reality is harsh, but it is not what the jurors imagined.

"Upon examination, it was found that the cereal was forcibly poured into the mouth of the deceased." Dexter's voice rang out calmly, shattering everything good.

"In addition to this, we found strangulation marks on the deceased's wrists, ankles, thighs, etc., which matched the rope carried by Robert Bales."

"The deceased had slight damage to his mouth, marks of blows on his limbs, and multiple bone cracks." Dexter's words were like a knife that mercilessly pierced the illusions of the jurors.

"The deceased was bound, whipped, and forcibly poured into a lake of cereal." Dexter concluded

"Considering the age of the deceased, these caused the deceased to be extremely frightened, choking on the cereal lake and choking into his lungs during the struggle, causing him to suffer from breathing and eventually death." Dexter then showed several pictures of the deceased's lungs and slices to support his speculation.

With that, he put the autopsy report down, glanced at Brooklyn, and sat back in his chair. In other words, it is true that Robert Bells used the Heimlich maneuver and CPR to rescue the little boy respectively, but it was Robert Bells himself who caused the little boy to need to be rescued.

Went around and around again. If it weren't for Robert Bales, the little boy would still be happily watching cartoons at home, and it wouldn't have been on the autopsy report at all.

Although the existence of the rescue measures suggests that Robert Bales was remorseful – and for whatever reason he did – it does not erase the fact that he caused the death of the little boy.

When Dexter finished, the time had come to twelve o'clock. Brooklyn glanced at Robert Bales, suspended the trial, and adjourned the trial.

Throughout Dexter's story, Robert Bales remained calm except for the first mention of the little boy's obvious mood swings as a child.

No anger or annoyance, no madness. This does not correspond to Dexter's conclusions. If Robert Bales really felt compassion for the little boy because he thought of his own child, and administered first aid measures to the little boy, he should not have been so calm.

………………………… Inside a Mexican restaurant. The Courtroom 9 team gathered around a table. With the addition of Jerry Winston, the number of members has expanded to five, and they can no longer sit in the window position, so they can only change to a large table in the corner.

"Hey." Nibbling on a piece of ribs, Bob sighed.

"Hey." Nelly sipped the corn soup and sighed as Bob learned.

"Hey." Bob sighed as if he was angry.

"Hey!" Nelly raised her voice.

"What do you learn from me?" Bob asked dissatisfied, putting down his greasy hand.

"What are you sighing for?" Nelly also put down the spoon and asked.

I sighed. Bob's eyes bulged

"I sigh what happened to Robert Bales. His wife and children are dead, and he is sick and in debt. ”

"Who let him go to war?" Nelly sneered

"Looking at his methods of murder and kidnapping, you can know that he has done this kind of thing a lot." Today's clerk is Nelly and Jerry, Nelly is worried that Jerry will not be able to adapt and is not worried that he will complete the recording work independently, so Nelly was also at the trial this morning.

"He's sick ......," Bob said urgently, Nelly picked up the paper and wiped the corners of her mouth, speaking slowly and coherently, but the content was to the point

"If he doesn't go to war, he won't get sick, if he doesn't get sick, if he doesn't get sick, if he doesn't get sick, he won't divorce his wife, and if he doesn't divorce his wife, he won't kill people."

"If he hadn't gone to war, maybe he would be picking up his son from school and going home happy to have dinner cooked by his wife."

"......"

"If he hadn't gone to war, maybe the deceased's family would have started preparing the Christmas tree."

"If he hadn't gone to war, maybe the deceased would still be scratching his ears and cheeks anxiously about the exam, or anxious that the girl he liked wouldn't reply to his text messages."

"If he hadn't gone to war, Cedric would probably be worrying about his children's grades, not being beaten like that, and coming here to defend Robert Bales."

"Bullshit war!" Nelly's words were logical and flawless, leaving Bob speechless.

"Alright." Brooklyn stepped up and played the round

"Nelly doesn't have to go to court in the afternoon. I just got a couple of calls in court, probably from the military, you go and see what's going on. ”

"Also, ask for a record of Robert Bales' mission."

"If you don't want it, forget it." After a pause, Brooklyn added. What exactly Robert Bales carried out was his personal curiosity, and it didn't involve any issues, and he didn't want to have much contact with the military because of personal matters.

Nelly nodded, gracefully put down her napkin, and walked into the bathroom with her bag.

"I didn't say it was right to go to war." Bob muttered quietly, full of grievances. He just sympathized with Robert Bales's plight, and he just felt a little emotional, and normal people would have sympathy for Robert Bales when they heard about this kind of thing.

Sympathizing with his plight and disagreeing with his homicide are not in conflict, these are two things that cannot be mixed.

In the afternoon, the Brooklyn court session lasted only two hours. After Cedric asked, Anne Aldington added a few more questions, intent on crucifying the fact that Robert Bales was the murderer of the deceased.

After the two men finished speaking, the first round of evidence was over, and Brooklyn immediately announced an adjournment. Just now Nelly sent a text message, and the results of his confession at noon have been achieved.

The phone calls that were hung up by Brooklyn came from the military, and they received the news of Robert Bales's arrest, and they called to confirm that Robert Bales had not leaked military secrets.

At Brooklyn's request, Nelly tentatively demanded that the military declassify or authorize access to Robert Bales' actions in the military.

Unsurprisingly, it was rejected. But the military did not ask the court, only to confirm that Robert Bales had not violated the secrecy and to consult whether they would be allowed to send two personnel to observe the hearing to ensure that Robert Bales continued to comply with the secrecy.

It was a reasonable request, and Brooklyn couldn't think of a reason to refuse, but he refused anyway. Once the military gets involved, things get complicated.

Brooklyn racked his brains to finally come up with a reason—the subject of the eucalyptus was not necessarily related to the content of Robert Bales's experiences during his service.

After refusing the military, Nelly continued to report. Soon after the military approached them, the Department of Veterans Affairs also approached them.

They demanded a change of counsel for Robert Bales, a stay of the trial, and a public hearing. A strong smell of showmanship came to the face.

Compared with the military, the Department of Veterans Affairs is several levels inferior in terms of attitude, content and conditions of conversation.

The courts and the Ministry of Military or Veterans Affairs are different departments that straddle the power system, and there is no overlap between them in terms of subordinate and subordinate relationships, and their functional coverage does not overlap.

In this case, the Department of Veterans Affairs went so far as to issue an order to Brooklyn. Brooklyn didn't know what the Department of Veterans Affairs thought, but seeing this kind of show of intelligence, Brooklyn was relieved.

He did not hesitate to reject all of the VA requests. After dealing with these two things, Brooklyn breathed a sigh of relief.

Robert Bales's only two departments that could cause uncertainty have been dealt with, and the possibility of twists and turns has been minimized.

Seeing Brooklyn hang up the phone and lie down in a chair with a relaxed look, Nelly immediately trotted to him with a smile on her face.

"Your Excellency Judge Brooklyn, look at the afternoon sun." Nelly pinched her throat and reached out and waved it back and forth in the air, as if caressing the sun

"Look at the blue sky, the beautiful clouds."

"And this delicious coffee." Nelly took Jerry's coffee, sniffed it, and closed her eyes with a look of intoxication.

"And the fragrance of the ink!"

"On such a beautiful afternoon, shouldn't you take care of these first?" Nelly smiled kindly, and handed over seven or eight folders harmlessly.

She trotted out, and a moment later returned with at least twenty folders and placed them on the other side of the table.

"Then we'll deal with that." As he spoke, he took another stack of the crumbs from Jerry's arms, who were following him.

"Finally, let's have some more of this."

"Your Excellency Judge Brooklyn, I wish you a pleasant and fulfilling afternoon!" After saying that, Nelly dragged Jerry back to the outside room, and whispered to help him find the omissions in the afternoon trial records.

Brooklyn looked at the dozens of folders in front of him and smiled wryly. The first eight copies that Nelly handed him were documents from several courtrooms applying for office supplies, which Nellie had reviewed and circled with a pencil to mark the areas that needed to be signed in Brooklyn.

With Nelly's help filtering the information, Brooklyn's time will be greatly saved, and he will only need to look at the 'highlights' of Nelly's drawings.

Even so, when Brooklyn finally finished processing two stacks of papers, he looked up and found that two more stacks had 'grown' on the desktop at some point.

"Nelly!" Brooklyn stared at the stacks of papers and shouted outside.

"What for?" Nelly from the outside responded with a shout.

"When I die, remember to ban the blue color at my funeral! I have a headache when I see this thing now! "Nelly's special habit of purchasing, the folders are all blue.

………………………… Despite the parties' agreement to a closed hearing, and despite Brooklyn's explicit order before the trial began, no one was allowed to mention the trial to unrelated persons, and despite the agreement signed by all.

The trial was leaked out anyway. The media is superb, especially when it comes to dealing with ordinary people.

They didn't know which hapless juror they were targeting, and they took the whole process of the trial from him, and it only cost 500 dollars.

For just $500, a closed trial was televised. Brooklyn painstakingly created a confidential environment, eliminated unfavorable factors, and eliminated the risk of leakage, and prepared a lot for the trial.

As a result, on the first day, everything fell into the water. Watching the news presenter on TV talk to the camera, Brooklyn remembered the conversation with Michael again.

There is really something wrong with the court's reserve jury pool! We must address this issue now!