The next day, Court No. 9. Jerry Winston entered the courtroom first, sat in the clerk's seat, and waited for the record.

Today he faced the trial transcript alone, and Nelly was already inundated with a large number of folders, and had no time to care about the work of the clerk.

Lei had already entered the courtroom in advance, and after confirming that the jurors, the prosecution and defense, and their lawyers were all present, the door was closed.

Ten past nine. Bob entered the courtroom first.

"Please all stand, e. . Courtroom No. 9 is now in session, presided over by the Honourable Judge Brooklyn Lee" The familiar shouts rang out, accompanied by the sound of a stumbling stand, and Brooklyn, dressed in a robe, with a cup in one hand and a file under his arm in the other, and entered the courtroom.

He stood on the bench and looked around, not waving his usual hand to take a seat. Seeing this, the two bailiffs beside Lei sighed in their hearts, secretly saying that something was wrong.

They had been in Court 9 long enough to know a little bit about Brooklyn's habits. Unusual behavior like this is usually not a good thing.

The truth was just as they guessed — Brooklyn was silent for nearly a minute before waving to sit down.

"Who watched last night's news before the trial began?" Brooklyn asked, holding up his right hand

"News on any channel is fine, if you have not seen the news, please raise your hand." Cedric, Anne Aldington, Ray, Bob, the two bailiffs, and the jury all raised their hands one after another.

Jerry looked around, a little stunned. Everyone raised their hands. He hesitated, wondering whether he should raise his hand too, pretending that he had seen it.

Yesterday he slept in the car, almost froze to death, where is he in the mood to watch the news.

"Good. It looks like everyone should be watching our trial progress on TV. Brooklyn nodded, automatically ignoring Jerry who didn't raise his hand.

"I think I need to remind you that this is a closed trial."

"If you don't understand what a closed trial is, you can show the agreement signed before the trial, and on page 1, line 17 of the agreement, there is a definition of a closed trial." Brooklyn pulled a letter of agreement from the file and showed it to the crowd.

"From page 2, line 10 onwards of the agreement, your obligations are indicated in bold."

"On page 5, line 22 of the agreement, the penalty clause for breach of the agreement is indicated in clearly distinguishing fonts." As soon as the words "punishment clause" came out, there was a lot of discussion in the jury seat.

Brooklyn continued

"On page 7, line 13 of the agreement, the court reserves the right to hold the person responsible for any in-court hearing if any in-court related trial matter is leaked to the outside world."

"When you signed the agreement, the court had a clear reminder and notice. This agreement is voluntarily signed by you with clarity on the above contents. ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, divulging the reasons for the trial related to the closed trial is tantamount to divulging state secrets." With that, Brooklyn looked over to the jury bench.

Cedric and Anne Aldington, one lawyer and the other a prosecutor, were already familiar with such secrecy clauses, and it was impossible for them to be divulged to the outside world.

It was the jury that leaked the news. Sure enough, a juror sitting on the edge of the back row showed obvious unease when he heard the words 'leaking state secrets'.

The juror broke out in a cold sweat when he found out that Brooklyn was watching him.

"I don't want the content of today's trial and beyond to be on the evening news that night." Brooklyn retracted his gaze.

"Otherwise, the court will immediately suspend the hearing and file a lawsuit against the leaker. Ladies and gentlemen, divulging state secrets is a felony. After a warning, Brooklyn did not kick the leaker out of the courtroom, but chose to continue the trial.

Today's jury pool is a sieve, and if you eliminate this, someone else will leak it, and it is impossible to ban it.

The only way to put an end to such incidents is to start with the jury pool. However, federal citizens are willing to attend jury trials, not mandatory, and they have the right to refuse upon receipt of a letter from the court.

Strictly speaking, a 'juror-by-juror' letter issued by the court is more akin to an invitation letter, and the invitee can decide whether or not to accept the invitation according to his or her own circumstances.

If Brooklyn raises the requirements for juries, it is likely that there will be no one available. Although there is a financial subsidy for coming to the court to serve as a juror, it is not much, and correspondingly, they need to spend time sitting in the courtroom and listening to the 'quarrel' for days or even months, and cannot quit halfway.

When encountering cases that have a greater social impact, or cases involving celebrities and celebrities, they are required to be forbidden to contact the outside world, arranged to be arranged in a fixed hotel like a prisoner, and forbidden to return home until the end of the trial, restricting their personal freedom.

It's no different from going to jail. If the requirements are not strict, the courts will become a sieve, and the closed trial will be a joke.

Strict requirements, it is likely to face a situation where no one is available. This is a conundrum for all federal courts.

Most courts turn a blind eye to juror leaks, pretending not to know. Because although the leakage of the contents of the trial is equivalent to the leakage of state secrets, in the final analysis, most of the contents of the trial are not state secrets, and the content of the trial will be known to the outside world sooner or later.

Jurors usually leak to the media, who pay jurors to 'buy' the news. Having such a 'revenue stream' will attract more people to come and serve on jurors.

Why not attract citizens to serve as jurors for free without having to pay for them? The prohibition clause for a closed trial is a sunset clause and is time-limited, and the restriction is automatically lifted at the end of the trial.

Sooner or later, it's all lifted. Brooklyn is nothing if it's not serious.

He would not have thought of restricting the 'freedom of speech' of the jurors before. But this time it's too much of an exaggeration.

It's only the first day of the trial, and the agreement has just been signed! Then the detailed content of the trial appeared on TV!

Nor was Brooklyn's goal to completely ban juror leaks, which he simply couldn't solve.

He only hopes that the leakers will not be so arrogant. After a warning, Brooklyn announced that the trial would continue, but secretly circled the name of the leaked juror.

………………………… Anne Aldington's approach to the trial has not changed, and in the next presentation of evidence, she presented a series of photos of the Chevrolet owner's home.

Wooden doors that were violently destroyed, footprints, chairs that overturned to the floor, a large number of fingerprints taken from the kitchen, refrigerator, etc., blood stains on the floor, smashed living room, and blood droplets scattered irregularly...... She presented more than two dozen pieces of evidence in one go, and Anne Aldington finally conducted a scene reconstruction simulation to tell the suspect's course of action.

"There are clear footprints on the door, which match the scorpion pattern worn by Robert Bales that day." Anne Aldington said, holding up two highly similar shoe prints.

"From the door to the living room, the police extracted a number of footprints and simulated a route of action according to the order of the footprints." Anne Aldington put down two shoe prints and pulled out a piece of cardboard.

On the cardboard is a top view of the Chevrolet owner's home, with a red dotted line on the picture, starting from the door, going straight to the living room, after a small half circle around the sofa in the living room, then turning to the dining room, then back to the living room, followed by a large number of scattered, clueless scurrying, and finally leaving through the door.

Anne Aldington recounted what happened in the room based on a live simulation: Robert Bales kicked open the wooden door and broke into the living room, and the son of the Chevrolet owner panicked when he saw a stranger breaking in, and tried to escape around the sofa, and was then caught by Robert Beers.

He brought a chair to the table, tied the boy to the chair, tortured him, and made a lake of cereal in the meantime, and forcibly poured it on the boy.

The lake of cereal choked into his lungs, causing the little boy to breathe. At this point, Robert Bales panicked, he untied the rope and began to give first aid to the little boy.

But it was too late, and the little boy died. Robert Bales' trajectory can be inferred from the footprints he left at the scene alone.

In the early stage, the soles of his shoes were stained with mud and grass clippings, and when he broke into the Chevrolet owner's home, he guessed that there was standing water.

Later, the cereal lake was scattered on the ground, stepped on by him, and got on the soles of his shoes. If Robert Bales hadn't seen Robert Bales in a bad mental state, no one would have believed that there was such a stupid murderer.

Anne Aldington correlates the evidence of the live simulation with Robert Bales, footprints, fingerprints, bloodstains, DNA, and a few hairs.

All this is a perfect testament to the whole process of Robert Bales's crime.

"Maybe there is a gap between the reconstruction of the site and the actual situation." Anne Aldington concluded

"But that's enough." Enough to convict Robert Bales of first-degree murder. Cedric requested to add an expert witness for questioning, who was Dexter on the first day.

Brooklyn considered it and agreed to his application. Seeing Dexter again, Brooklyn actually tasted a bit of sunshine in his standardized smile.

This came as a surprise to Brooklyn. After taking the oath with his Bible, Dexter sat on the witness stand, waiting for Cedric's questioning.

"How did these blood stains come about?" Cedric asked, picking up the photo from the scene.

"A large amount of scattered, irregular blood stains were found at the scene." Dexter replied

"After DNA comparison, it was confirmed that the bloodstains came from the defendant Robert Bales." Dexter then held up the photos one by one and restored them according to the state of the blood stains on the photos.

This relates to his area of expertise, and he speaks with a lot more confidence than he did when he cut through people.

According to his account, Robert Bales went berserk in the living room, smashing a lot of things and cutting his palms.

Most of the blood stains at the scene were splattered out when something was smashed. These blood stains are scattered everywhere, dragging a small slender tail, which is very cute.

"This one." Dexter picked up a photo of the wooden chair with one leg missing, and pointed to the blood mark on the floor

"This is where the blood trail begins. The suspect first pounded the floor, leaving fist marks on the floor, and then dismantled the chair. ”

"Then go to the couch and overturn the table."

"Then there's the TV, and it's clear that the TV is shattered, and the fragments are pointed at the center point, and we've extracted the same blood here."

"Blood was also found on both sides of the back of the TV." The TV is not hung intact on the wall, but lies under the window, and as you can see from the photo, there are very clear finger marks on the back.

"Then there were the wooden cabinets, the bookcases, and finally the massive scuffing marks and droplets of blood on the wall at the doorway."

"The blood droplets went all the way to the side of the road outside the house and disappeared." Dexter changed the photos one by one, as if he was talking about the pictures, and when he finished speaking, he arranged the photos in order and placed them neatly in front of the right side of the table.

"Thanks, sir." Cedric thanked Dexter and ended the questioning.

This made everyone a little stunned. Cedric seems to have done a lot, but his question proves exactly what Anne Aldington wants to prove - that Robert Bales caused everything in the Chevrolet's owner's home.

In doing so, instead of helping Robert Bales, he put the first nail in the lid of his coffin.

It's better to give up cross-examination. His actions caused a slight commotion in the jury room, but fortunately, the jurors had not forgotten Brooklyn's previous anger, and the commotion quickly subsided.

Brooklyn frowned and glanced at Cedric and asked if Anne Aldington needed a supplement.

After receiving a negative answer, Brooklyn announced that the evidence would continue, while secretly shaking his head in his heart. Cedric's 'capitulation' approach to defense made the trial boring.

Brooklyn already predicted that under Cedric's leadership, the defense would eventually be cornered by Anne Aldington, with no way out.

Then the jury came up with a collegial verdict as quickly as possible, and Robert Bales was found guilty.

If Cedric doesn't give up using Robert Bales' condition as a defense, perhaps by winning sympathy, there is still some room for maneuver.

For example, he can apply to list Robert Bales's former doctor as a witness, and prove that Robert Bales' mental state and emotions have been unstable through the doctor, and then prove that the reckless behavior of the Chevrolet owner stimulated Robert Bales and made Robert Bales sick.

Although the trial was only two days underway, Brooklyn was almost certain that Robert Bales had committed the crime while unconscious.

Whether it is the Chevrolet owner's home, or the scene of her husband's death, it has been wreaked havoc, leaving too many clues.

With Robert Bales' ability to act, if he had committed a crime while awake, he simply wouldn't have left so many clues.

Unfortunately, the road was blocked by Cedric from the start. With that in mind, Brooklyn looked at Cedric and felt that his 'last dignity for Robert Bales' approach seemed a little unworthy.