In the afternoon, Anne Aldington came to E. Ed. with the Bennett indictment. y。 Judge Huggins Meghan read it and informed Brooklyn.

Bennett's case involving Jerry Winston, the clerk of Court No. 9, would be heard in person in Brooklyn.

After Jerry decided not to help Bennett hide it anymore, Brooklyn specifically told Huggins that someone from the District Attorney's Office would notify Bennett as soon as he filed the indictment.

After getting the indictment, Brooklyn flipped through it. The prosecution's indictment against Bennett was simple, one murder, one murder.

The target of the murder was Bennett's mother, and the target of the murder was Jerry Winston. The entire case is described in full in the indictment.

The police have important evidence in their hands - the trophy. The head-smashing trophy had Bennett's mother's DNA extracted, which was at odds with Bennett's description of 'I just hit her and she slammed into the corner of the table'.

The other is the reporting time. According to the autopsy report provided by the medical examiner and hospital records, Bennett's mother's back head injury was a full three hours away from the time she was admitted to the hospital.

If it was as Bennett said, he should have called the police as soon as his mother passed out, instead of sitting motionless on the couch and waiting for Jerry to go back three hours later.

As for Jerry's DNA extracted from the trophy, this is no longer a major discovery. Dexter's confession mentions trophies.

The discovery of Jerry's DNA is a no-brainer. In addition to the DNA on the trophy, the transcript provided by Dexter directly nailed Bennett's identity.

He had personally experienced Bennett's murder. When he checks on Jerry and prepares to call the police, Bennett is holding the trophy and preparing to sneak up on him, only to be spotted by Dexter and dodge.

There is not much evidence on display in the indictment, or the entire indictment is not thick, but every piece of evidence, every word, is fatal to Bennett.

After reading the indictment, Brooklyn roughly estimated that even if Bennett hired the best team of lawyers, the probability of winning the case would not exceed 10%.

In addition to the evidence in the hands of the police, the most important thing is that he is the judge. He has a clear emotional bias.

But Bennett's attorneys couldn't get Brooklyn to recuse themselves with emotional bias. Because Jerry Winston is technically not related to Brooklyn.

Privately, Brooklyn and the Winston family only knew each other. Yu Gong, Jerry Winston is e.. Y, not Brooklyn.

Jerry is different from Bob. Bob is a judge's assistant in Brooklyn, and while also an employee assigned to the judge by the court, the judge's assistant is significantly closer to the judge.

Jerry is different. He is the Registrar. Strictly speaking, the clerk of the court is not fixed, or at least not tied to the judge.

Many court judges don't even fix the courts. Today in Court 1, tomorrow it may be in Court 11.

Brooklyn occupies Court No. 9 and does not go, as well as E. All judges are bound to the court and will not change the venue at will, which is not a rule, but a voluntary act of the judges. Y tradition.

That is, Jerry was the clerk of Court 9, and Brooklyn happened to be regularly placed in Court 9.

The two are just colleagues. There is no way to avoid this. Not to mention the other victim, Bennett's mother, whom Brooklyn never even met.

Brooklyn is unavoidable, there is a real emotional bias, and the police have plenty of evidence that no one knows how Bennett will win.

Unless Mr. President personally issues an amnesty. Bennett's best option is to do a guilty plea and avoid the cost of a lawyer, saving money to make his life better in prison.

…………………… Tuesday. Brooklyn began the Bennett hearing and pre-trial in Court No. 9.

He had just finished a trial, and there was still one in a while, and he didn't bother to move the place, so he simply put the hearing and pre-trial work in the courtroom.

Originally, the next one was next to the previous one, but due to a small accident on the side of the party, he couldn't get to the court in time.

As soon as the party realized that he might be late, he contacted the court and explained the situation.

Due to objective reasons, and not the parties' intentional delays, it is impossible for Brooklyn to rule against the other party for failing to appear in court on time.

In most cases, Brooklyn does not rush to declare a party unsuccessful for failing to appear in court on time. More precisely, Brooklyn rarely ends a trial with non-relevant factors.

Unless it is a deliberate provocation by the parties. After waiting for a while, Anne and Bennett were all present. Brooklyn noticed that Bennett was alone in the dock.

He did not call a lawyer.

"Bennett, where's your lawyer?" Brooklyn asked. Bennett twirled with his fingers, and replied

"He doesn't like me, I need another one. He told me I could change it. Brooklyn looked at the police behind Bennett.

Seeing the police nodding, he turned on the computer and found the list of public lawyers. Most of the people on the list are 'busy', and there are only a dozen or so who are idle.

"What do you like?" Brooklyn asked, staring at the laptop screen

"Simon, a criminal lawyer with a very high success rate, with low fees, just finished a case, and happens to be free, how about it?" Brooklyn turned the computer around and showed him the public information about Lawyer Simon.

Seeing that he did not speak, he turned another page

"Besica, who has a win rate on par with Simon, is also a criminal lawyer with a high fee, has just returned from vacation, and is ready to take on a difficult case and challenge herself. What do you think? Bennett remained silent.

Brooklyn introduced several lawyers in a row, but seeing that Bennett still didn't speak, he finally put away the computer and asked with a straight face

"Or do you want to hire one yourself?" Bennett still didn't speak. Judging by his expression, he was already entangled.

"OK," Brooklyn beckoned to Bob

"Go get in touch with Attorney Simon. I remember seeing him on the first floor when I went to work in the morning. ”

"Let him come over at once." Bob turned to leave. Seeing Bennett stretch his neck and open his mouth to call Bob, Brooklyn spoke first

"Bennett, if you don't want to hire a lawyer yourself, the court has the right to appoint one. Or do you want to defend yourself? ”

"What if he doesn't like me?" Bennett asked in a trembling voice. Judging from the fact that he was red from the tips of his ears to the base of his neck, it had exhausted his courage to say this.

"Why would you want to find a lawyer who likes you?" Brooklyn asked.

"If he doesn't like me." Bennett hesitated for a moment, then lowered his head and whispered

"He could hurt me." Brooklyn didn't want to talk any more nonsense with him. Simon is soon called out to by Bob.

He hurried into the courtroom, first nodding politely to Brooklyn, then standing beside Bennett and reaching out to shake Bennett's hand.

Bennett was like a mimosa touched by his fingers, and he was so frightened that he immediately hid to the side. This dodge exposed Simon's outstretched hand, which made him a little embarrassed.

Simon withdrew his hand and looked up

"Your Excellency, I have not read the indictment, and I have not any understanding or preparation for this indictment." Brooklyn pulled out the indictment and asked Bob to hand it to Simon.

"Go to the back gallery and prepare, I still have a case to hold in a while, and when they are over, it will be your turn." Simon took the indictment, whispered thanks to Bob, and walked into the corner.

Brooklyn looked back at the plaintiff's seat. Anne Aldington raised her hand in a gesture of surrender, then stuffed the roll of documents she had just pulled out into her bag, and carried it to the other corner.

Brooklyn nodded in satisfaction.

"Go and ask them if they've arrived." Bob left again. Moments later, the plaintiff entered with his lawyer.

The auditorium began to fill up. When the courtroom was almost full, the defendant finally arrived in a hurry.

"Are the parties present?" Brooklyn pulled out Ben Eucalyptus' file and began to go through the process. ……………… When Brooklyn adjourned the trial and sent the parties away, it was already past eleven o'clock in the afternoon.

He beckoned to Anne and Simon, who were sitting in the corners

"Have you finished reading?" Simon nodded. Just taking advantage of the Brooklyn trial, he has officially become Bennett's lawyer, and has read the indictment, and even found time to send a few text messages to Anne.

Once Simon had learned the story, he had already determined that there was no chance of winning the case. Brooklyn's focus on the small team at Court 9 is that all of the people who are in and out of Court No. 9 are frequent. The people of y are there for all to see.

When it comes to Jerry, there is already little hope. Not to mention the fact that there is a dead person with conclusive evidence.

He was prepared to seek plea bargains. But his client didn't have a dime in his hand, and Anne wouldn't agree to the deal even if she was hit by a car and was stupid.

He wanted to say that Bennett pleaded guilty, but Bennett insisted that he accidentally pushed them and didn't mean to.

So Simon wanted to get up and leave. But when he thought that Ben Yu had been appointed by the Chief Justice himself, he didn't want to miss this kind of opportunity.

Even a large law firm like Pearson Spector may not dare to say that it will not do it when it receives a direct assignment from the chief justice, let alone a small transparent like Simon.

"Your Excellency" was questioning Bennett in Brooklyn when Simon suddenly interrupted. Seeing Brooklyn look at him, Simon walked around the table and toward the judge's bench.

Brooklyn waved at Anne, ready to hear what Simon was going to say.

"If my client pleads guilty, can I ...... as appropriate" Simon looked pitifully at Anne. Anne coldly refused

"No way. Simon, your client has nothing in his hands. Even if he didn't plead guilty, the result would be the same after a few days. ”

"But that would be a waste of Brooklyn judges' time, wouldn't it?" Simon said something that didn't seem threatening in a pitiful tone

"Why don't we plead guilty now, and you can reduce the sentence as appropriate?" Any judge, regardless of whether he loves his profession or hates his profession, hopes that the defendant will obediently admit his guilt at the time of the preliminary trial, save the trouble of the trial, and go directly to the process of serving his sentence.

It's best to have an agreed plea bargain attached to every indictment you receive it! It's easy, and no one likes trouble.

Simon took advantage of this to make a subtle change in Brooklyn's heart. In fact, Simon is very clear that Bennett pleads guilty and his sentence will not be reduced for a single day.

His purpose was not to trade at all, but to manipulate the emotional scales in Brooklyn's heart. Let Brooklyn at least be a little less biased towards the prosecution.

"Impossible." Anne Aldington refused directly, and I don't know if she didn't understand it, or if she understood it but didn't bother to say it.

Brooklyn interrupted their conversation with a wave of his hand

"Alright, Simon, we all know what you want to do. Let's go back. One sentence made Simon's heart cold.

His plan did not work at all. Simon reluctantly returned to the dock, and before he could sit down, Bennett stood up

"Judge, I don't like him!"

"I don't want him to be my lawyer." Simon's eyes widened, his face full of bewilderment.

"He was in contact with the prosecutor. He didn't want to help me at all! Bennett said as he stepped forward to grab Simon's phone.

Simon wasn't quite tall, but at least he was much better than Bennett, and he grabbed his bag and ducked back, letting Bennett go.

Then he stood aside and watched quietly as Bennett was subdued by the police.

"It doesn't seem like I'm going to be able to satisfy my client." Simon shrugged and nodded apologetically at Brooklyn

"I'm sorry." Having said that, Simon didn't leave, he still looked at Brooklyn.

"Bob, put the other eleven, oh, now it's nine. Call the other nine free public lawyers, and let him choose for himself. Seeing Bob away, Brooklyn said to Bennett, who was being held down by the police

"Bennett, this is the last chance, either you choose one of the nine people who will come over later, or you can hire a lawyer yourself, or you can defend yourself." With that, Brooklyn nodded at Simon again

"Simon, you can go." Simon said goodbye politely, not even looking at Bennett. Twenty minutes later, it was half past twelve, and Bob finally led the five men into the courtroom sweating profusely.

"Jesse, Dean, Lorna, and Dade all have eucalyptus." Bob explained to Brooklyn.

Brooklyn glanced at the computer screen and saw that there were only four people idle, and one of the five who came was a man with a eucalyptus in his hand.

"Choose." Brooklyn raised his chin at Bennett. Bennett cautiously raised his head, his gaze sweeping over the five lawyers standing in front of him.

A minute passed, and he was still observing. Five minutes passed, and he was still observing. Ten minutes passed, and he still hadn't made a choice.

Brooklyn stroked his shriveled stomach and casually pointed to Besica on the far left.

"Besica." Bennett quickly shook his head.

"Jessit." Brooklyn pointed to the strong man beside Besica. Bennett again refused. Brooklyn pointed out the five people one by one, and Bennett rejected them one by one.

“ok。” Brooklyn withdrew his hand

"You can go. Sorry for the delay. The five of them hurriedly shook their heads.

"So, what do you want to do, Mr. Bennett?" Brooklyn asked in harmony

"This is the courtroom, not your bedroom."

"It's not your supermarket downstairs, you know, Mr. Bennett?" Brooklyn was smiling

"You've been accused of killing your own mother, deliberately hurting your roommate, and once it's proven, you're going to face, um-" At this point, Brooklyn paused, bowed his head and scribbled the above 23 years to 40.

You will face 40 years in prison. Metropolitan Penitentiary. Parole, commutation, visitation, transfer, participation in any commutation of sentence. ”

"Do you understand, Mr. Bennett?"