The lawyer didn't care what the judge thought about rebutting the witnesses, even though Brooklyn's hatred for the host he hated was already overflowing.

What they need to do now is please the jury, as for the judge...... That's something to think about after pleasing the jury.

And given how hot Brooklyn is arguing with host A, they don't have much hope for it.

In fact, pessimistic about the lawsuit. Under normal circumstances, in the face of this kind of lawsuit, the worst thing they can do is to delay time, keep submitting new evidence, and if it drags on for ten or eight years, the plaintiff himself will withdraw the lawsuit.

But it fell into Brooklyn's hands. I was recently taught power functions in Brooklyn and didn't want to take math classes anymore.

In front of Brooklyn, they can't think of an effective off-court move for the time being, so they can only cooperate with the trial in a proper manner.

Losing the advantage of off-court moves makes you think they are at a disadvantage. Although some in-house counsel have argued that they are not the underdog in a normal trial.

After interacting with the moderator with a few unrelated questions, the lawyer got to the point.

"Is that what you're talking about when you're hosting the show?" The lawyer asked as he played the collection again.

"Yes." The moderator replied. This is different from his performance on the show, his answers are very concise, not eyebrows, and not emotional to the point of exaggeration.

"Are you reporting this to kill Cedric?" The lawyer asked again.

“what？” The moderator was stunned by this question.

"Are you reporting this to kill Cedric?" The lawyer repeated the question again.

“no！” The host finally confirmed that there was no problem with his hearing, and he hurriedly shook his head in denial

"Why would I do that?" The lawyer shrugged and pointed sideways at the plaintiff

"I don't know, that's why we're here." After a pause, he continued

"Do you know Cedric? I mean privately, or in life. ”

"Nope." The moderator shook his head

"I haven't even met him, we don't know each other at all."

"Where were you on the night of December 15th and 16th?" The lawyer asked again. The host recalled for a long time and said uncertainly

"I think I should be in the studio, my show starts at eight o'clock in the evening, and after the live broadcast we go to dinner, and then we seem to go to the bar." After a pause, the host frowned

"We played at the bar until two o'clock, and then it was like heading home." The lawyer nodded, turning to face the jury bench

"Obviously, he doesn't have what it takes to be a eucalyptus."

"He's not there, he's not in contact with Cedric, he doesn't even know Cedric. He didn't think about killing Cedric either. ”

"It is already clear that Cedric's death by suicide has nothing to do with the news reports."

"Thank you for testifying." After thanking the moderator, the lawyer concluded his remarks.

"You can leave your seat." Brooklyn didn't raise his head, and said with a look of disgrace. A rebuttal witness may not be questioned, he is only to refute the evidence and opinions put forward by the other party, and then testify in court, and is not a witness to the evidence of a certain party.

"Is there anything the plaintiff needs to add?" Brooklyn asked.

"Yes, Your Excellency." The plaintiff's lawyer did not intend to let it go, and he returned to the jury to make a statement.

"The rebuttal witness who just applied for by the other party is the host of the broadcaster's news program, and these clips in my hands are all from him."

"The rebuttal witness is a good expression of his subjective desire not to put Cedric to death, but there are two problems here."

"The first problem is that the federal government has never had a law or precedent to support a rule that one can not be held accountable for one's actions if there is no subjective injury to others."

Second, the other party has also admitted before that their news information is moderated, and any content that is broadcast is allowed to be played through moderation. is a broadcaster, and the rebuttal witness is the host of a news program, and the press release used by the host comes from a review that is not necessarily related to the host. ”

"Consider this content to meet their moderation standards and be suitable for being placed on a news program for all audiences." Pearson's lawyers emphasized that the respondent should be the moderator, not the moderator.

In his questioning after the other party applied to refute the witness, he heard the intention of trying to shift the blame to the rebuttal witness, that is, the presiding officer.

"The Defense." After confirming that there are no additions between the two sides, Brooklyn Road. 's lawyer didn't get up immediately, he consulted with his companion and called in the forensic doctor who would issue a report on Cedric's death.

The medical examiner's name was Henry, and he was a middle-aged man in his forties, strong and unsmiling. After taking the oath, sit on the witness stand and wait for questioning.

The lawyer came to Henry

"Did you determine Cedric's cause of death?"

"That's right, it's me." Henry nodded.

"Can you elaborate on that?"

"The body of the deceased was naked, the corpse was in a natural state, the sac was shrunken, and the corpse spots on the body surface were bright red, and the bright red corpse spots could be seen, and the corpse spots changed from bright red to purple red after thawing."

"Wait." The lawyer called a stop

"What does it mean when a corpse is in its natural state?"

"It's a natural stretch. There are no abnormalities such as curling, curling, spasms, etc. Abnormalities are usually caused by factors such as disease, extreme external environment, etc. The state of the corpse often reflects the physiological state of the deceased before his death. ”

"I'm a little muddy." The lawyer asked, confused

"You just said that corpses in extreme external conditions will be in an abnormal state?"

"That's right."

"You said Cedric's body was in its natural state, sorry, I don't really understand." Henry paused and explained

"Freezing to death is different from other extreme environments, and freezing to death usually goes through four phases: the excitatory phase, the excitability diminished phase, the inhibition phase, and the complete paralysis phase."

"During the excitatory period, people will feel obvious cold, shivering, rapid breathing, heartbeat, increased blood pressure and other physiological reactions, nerves are in a state of excitement, and these physiological reactions can produce more heat to maintain the dropped body temperature."

"Most people feel cold because their bodies are in a period of excitement, which reminds you that cold environments are not suitable for long-term stays, and you need to find warmer places."

"If you continue to stay in a cold environment, after the initial period of excitement, the body will enter a long period of weakening of excitement, during which blood circulation and respiratory function gradually weaken, breathing, heart rate slows down, and blood pressure drops. Fatigue occurs, movement is inflexible, and consciousness is impaired. ”

"It is very dangerous to be in a period of low excitement for a long time, and many reflections of the body remind you that the cold external environment is about to break through the limits of physiology, and the body is almost unable to withstand the cold environment."

"After the period of weakened excitement, the body will enter a period of inhibition, heart rate, breathing and blood pressure will gradually decrease, the response to external stimuli will be sluggish, and the consciousness will be in a hazy state. An unusually hot sensation occurs. ”

"The feeling is fatal. It gives you the illusion that you're in a cold environment, but you're feeling hot. In this state, people unconsciously take off their clothes and expose their bodies to the cold. ”

"Continued exposure to extreme environments can lead to increased capillary permeability, interstitial edema, visceral congestion, decreased circulating blood volume, decreased cardiac stroke volume, shortened refractory period in the cardiac conduction system, and eventually death from ventricular fibrillation."

"After the inhibition period, you will enter a period of complete paralysis, during which the body's basic energy will be fully struck, the body temperature regulation center will fail, breathing and heartbeat will be suppressed, blood pressure will drop almost in a straight line, various reflexes will disappear, and there will be no response to external stimuli. Eventually, it leads to paralysis of the vascular motor center and respiratory center and death. ”

"The deceased was in a cold environment for a long time, and the body no longer felt cold after entering the inhibition period, so the body was not in the state of curling up as people imagined." The lawyer nodded in understanding and motioned for him to continue.

"The deceased's cranial brain was altered, and the brain and meninges were congested and edematous. The left ventricle blood is bright red, the left ventricle blood is bright red, and the right ventricle blood is dark red. ”

"After the heart was removed, the blood from the left and right ventricles was different, and the blood coming out of the pulmonary veins was bright red and the blood coming out of the pulmonary arteries was dark red."

"Spots of bleeding in the digestive tract, visible visnes of the gastric mucosa along the blood vessels."

"After the lung section was squeezed, it was seen that there was a spill of bright red bloody fluid and foam, and there was pink foam in the trachea."

"All of the above are typical organ changes that freeze to death."

"In addition, we also performed histopathological and biochemical tests, and the results were consistent with low temperature death."

"That said, you can be 100% sure that Cedric froze to death and not for some other reason, right?" The lawyer asked.

"Yes. All the characteristics of the deceased's body are consistent with the characteristics of hypothermia-induced death. Henry said firmly.

The lawyer nodded, and after a moment of silence, asked

"Was the process of freezing to death painful?"

"Of course." Henry was somewhat surprised by the lawyer's question

"Imagine stripping naked and being stuffed in the fridge. We can't stand it for a long time when we stand outside in warm enough clothes, let alone strip naked and stay in the cold. ”

"It would be a hundred times more painful than we thought."

"We know you've got seventeen years of experience." The lawyer continued

"In the past 17 years, have you ever seen an example of someone choosing to freeze to death as a means of suicide?" Henry thought for a moment and shook his head

"Nope. Suicide usually chooses methods that are less painful or have a shorter duration, such as cutting your wrists or jumping off a building, and people usually choose suicide to end their pain rather than feel it. The lawyer nodded and came to the jury

"Henry Forensic Medicine has used his seventeen years of experience to prove to us that normal people do not choose to freeze to death when they commit suicide."

"Cedric chose this method of suicide that was painful enough and cruel enough."

"I can only guess that something is wrong with his spirit,"

“obje!” The plaintiff's lawyer stood up and objected.

"It works." Brooklyn gave the verdict The lawyer raised his hands and made a gesture of surrender, and then said

"We found out that Cedric had a habit of seeing a psychiatrist every weekend. The habit began a decade ago and ended more recently, when he accepted to defend Robert Bales. ”

"The passage of life is always regrettable, and I deeply regret the death of Cedric, and we can understand the anger of others because we cannot accept the sudden death of a loved one. But the true cause of Cedric's death has nothing to do with my side. The psychiatrist he mentioned at the end was nothing less than a bombshell.

The emergence of this new evidence will directly turn the tide of the trial.

"I don't see this in the list of evidence you submitted." Brooklyn asked

"Do you have evidence to support this testimony?" The lawyer nodded, turned and took an application form from his companion's hand and handed it to Brooklyn.

"Your Excellency, I am applying that Cedric's psychiatrist, Dr. Morgan, be listed as witnesses." Brooklyn took the application form, reviewed it carefully, nodded, and agreed to his application.

The lawyer thanked him and concluded his speech. Brooklyn looked at the plaintiff's seat. The plaintiff's lawyer apparently did not expect this stubble, and he was caught off guard by the evidence suddenly thrown by his opponent.

Instead of immediately getting up to question, he whispered to Cedric's wife, Ms. Bella, to confirm the information.

But from Ms. Bella's shocked expression and the constant shaking of her head, it can be seen that she should not have known that her husband had been receiving psychological treatment.

"Plaintiff." Brooklyn had to be reminded.

"Freezing to death is a painful process?" At Brooklyn's urging, the plaintiff's lawyer came to the witness stand and asked.

"That's right." Forensic Henry nodded.

"According to you, no one would choose to freeze to death, right?"

"In my career, I have not seen a case of freezing to death as a means of suicide." Forensic Henry said sternly.

"Between freezing to death and the pain of childbirth, who is more serious?" Henry's medical examiner hesitated for a moment

"Childbirth." He then added

"But there are no real experimental studies to prove this. I haven't froze to death and I can't give birth. Perhaps they were in equal pain. The plaintiff's lawyer tugged at the corners of his mouth and continued to ask

"If childbirth is more painful, why would anyone choose to give birth?"

"Because ......"

"Even if the birth is painful, there are still people who choose." The plaintiff's lawyer interrupted Henry's medical examiner

"By the same token, freezing to death isn't a good, common way to commit suicide, but that doesn't mean no one chooses it, right?" Choosing extreme cases is not a persuasive defense.

Brooklyn frowned untraceably. Judging from the jury's facial expressions, his claims were not convincing.

Brooklyn's actions were watched by the plaintiff's lawyers, he continued

"We can't analyze why Cedric chose to freeze to death. But the medical examiner just said that freezing to death is a very painful and long process, and the pain of freezing to death is comparable to that of childbirth. ”

"Cedric chose to freeze to death, the other party thought that Cedric had a mental problem, and I only saw how painful Cedric was before he died."

"How desperate must he have been to freeze to death?"

"He may have hesitated before making a choice, or he may have hesitated in the process of freezing to death, but he only needs to pull a quilt and light the stove, a very simple action, to end this pain and save his life."

But Cedric didn't do that. In the end, he insisted on choosing to end his life in this painful and lengthy extreme way. ”

"Is this a mental problem, or is it the ultimate despair?"

"The other party thinks he has a mental problem and is a madman. I saw only Cedric's desperation. ”

"As he went through what Henry Medical Examiner described as four periods, his mind was not about surviving, not about ending this suffering, but about the reports about him and the damage those reports had done to his family."

"This inner pain goes far beyond his physical pain."