"Where did you get the knife?" Seven asked, looking at Valente in disbelief.

"I bought this knife from the shop next door to the courthouse, and there are many of them in this style."

Valente straightened the collar of his shirt that had been ripped by Seven, and he replied casually.

If one were to pay attention to Valente's gaze at this time, they would have seen that his gaze had been fixed somewhere behind the round table, and in that place stood a handsome young man with blond hair and golden eyes, holding a white clipboard with a simple line of Terra writing on it.

Xia Xiu had already told Valente the origin of the knife on the clipboard, and the others couldn't see him at all.

True off-site assistance.

"Eight, it's all your guess, and you can't prove that the knife didn't belong to Paul Colin."

After an initial period of astonishment, Seven quickly found another key point, and Valente was unable to prove that the yellowknife was not Paul Colin's.

"Presiding Judge, I think it's time to vote on whether Paul Colin is guilty or not, I don't think it's worth wasting too much time, there's a lot of evidence that proves he's a homicide." Number Seven stretched out his hand to the presiding judge to indicate that he wanted to vote.

"Yes, let's start the first round of voting." The presiding judge nodded in agreement.

Soon, everyone present received a blank ticket stamped with the seal of the Court of Felony with the following inscriptions:

[In my honor and conscience, my opinion: _____]

Next, the adjudicator and jurors simply write "yes" or "no" on their ballots, and nothing is considered a waiver.

A minimum of 8 votes in favour (8 votes to 4) are required in the first instance procedure for an unfavorable answer to the defendant; Blank or invalid votes shall be calculated in favor of the defendant.

The first round of voting was passed quickly.

The jurors present folded their written tickets and threw them into the ballot boxes.

Subsequently, the presiding judge counted the vote in front of the jury.

"2 abstentions, 3 against, 7 in favour; The abstentions went to the opposing side, and now 5:7, this round of voting will not pass, and you still need to discuss it." The presiding judge read out the results of the vote.

And after hearing the results, the faces of No. 2, No. 3, No. 7, No. 9, No. 10, No. 11, No. 12, all showed obvious surprise and irritability.

Prejudice, discrimination, arrogance······

These are inherent in them, and they don't think that a person from a slum background is worth their time, and it makes more sense for them to watch a show of entertainment for more than twenty minutes than here.

The crux of modern society lies in the fact that the development of materials has caused many people to gradually lose their personal thinking and judgment, and their independent spirit and critical spirit due to the reduction of intellectual activities or the stylization of ideas.

"Ladies and gentlemen, as the Eight said, there is only one life, if we are wrong, he will leave this world forever, it is a fresh life, his heart is still beating vigorously in this land, the reason why we stand here is for justice, so we should be more careful to make judgments." ….

Four, who was an elder, stood up and said to everyone present.

"Let's continue to deliberate." The presiding judge also stood up and motioned for the collegiate deliberations present to continue.

"To prove the child's innocence, then several earlier points of evidence must be overturned."

No. 2 spoke at this time, he was a white-collar worker.

"First, the testimony of the witness Jim, who heard the quarrel between old Colin and Paul; Second, Mrs. Alice's testimony, she saw a figure in the fight, and that figure was obviously Paul Colin, and combined with the fact that Jim said in Evidence 1 that he saw Paul fleeing, there was no doubt that Paul Colin was the murderer!"

After listening to the words of the second one, everyone present subconsciously turned to the eighth position of Valente, who was already subconsciously identifying Valente as a supporter of the innocent party.

Valente

It was a short thought for a while, he had actually discovered the loophole of the first point, the old man's travel speed itself was one of the doubts, the other party could not cross the road in half a minute to the position where old Colin died, and the other party's feet did not allow the other party to do that.

The old man was lying, but the motive for his lying, Valente, could not be found out now, and time was too short.

Valente looked up at the blonde young man in the corner of the round table that only he could see, and he needed to ask the old man something now.

Xia Xiu nodded understandingly, he made an understanding gesture at Valente, and then he began to walk outside, now they need to use a little "off-the-plate trick" to ask something from the old man.

And after Xia Xiu left, Valente said to the presiding judge:

"Presiding Judge, can I ask for a topographical map of Old Colin's house?"

"Naturally, there is no problem."

The presiding judge quickly went to the information area to find the topographic map of the old Collin's house, and he handed it to Valente, who, after receiving the topographic map, laid it flat on the round table.

Valente took out the pen beside him, circled a dot in two places, and drew a straight line.

Everyone watched his operation silently.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you must have seen during the trial, Mr. Jim is an old man with a leg disease, and when he walked to the witness stand, it probably took more than a minute, while a normal person can walk there in ten seconds."

Valente pointed to two dots on the topographical map, one of which was the old Collin's house, and the other was Jim's temporary residence.

"Old Collin's house is on the far left side of the road, and Jim is in the middle of the road across the road, even if we choose a straight line distance, according to the scale, this distance is at least more than 20 meters, and this journey only takes him half a minute?"

Valente looked around at the crowd and asked:

"Do you believe him?"

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The other side.

Jim was whistling towards the outside of the courthouse, when the rain outside began to lighten, and the huge raindrops had turned into raindrops, Jim tightened his shabby robe and walked into a small alley, and when he stepped into the alley, something hung over his head, and the rain curtain falling from the sky was blocked. ….

Jim looked up at the sky above him, and there was a black umbrella hanging above him, his gaze followed the hand holding the umbrella, and a handsome young man with blond hair and golden eyes reflected in his eyes, he didn't know when the other party was holding the umbrella close to him, he didn't even feel it, the other party was standing beside him.

"Mr. Jim, can I ask you something?"

A gentle and polite smile appeared on the handsome face of the blonde youth, and his golden vertical boys reflected Jim's fearful expression.

"Gollum—"

Jim couldn't help but swallow his saliva, his heart trembling with the intimidation exuded by the blonde youth in front of him, he was like a prey targeted by an apex predator, his heart was drifting in a sea of fear.

"Don't be nervous, I'm not a bad person." Xia Xiu smiled and comforted.

"You... What do you want to ask?" Jim felt his legs swinging wildly, as if he had lost control of his legs.

"Well, my question is simple."

The blond young man's smile became more warm, and he asked in a soft tone to the old man:

"Old man, why are you giving false testimony?"

Winter Winter Winter –

Jim's heart began to beat wildly, and the dazzling erection took over his vision, and from his vision, the sky seemed to rise two suns, and the sea of fear enveloped him, sinking him, and suffocating him.

Gotta tell the truth!

Otherwise, you'll die!

"I, I, I... I just want to... To earn... A special money.··,Witnesses to the arrest of the murderer at the police station.··· There's a bonus."

"And... And, those people looked at me... It makes me feel like I've found meaning."

Jim's swaying legs finally couldn't hold on, and they flipped like a broken ship overturned by the waves, and the old man slammed to the ground, and a warm sensation came from his crotch, and the pungent heat came from there.

The old man raised his head tremblingly, and he wanted to look at the expression of the owner of the two suns, and then he realized that the two suns standing above him had no reflection of him at all.

"Sure enough, responsibility is something we expect others to fulfill, not something we want to fulfill."

"But I advise you to do your part, after all, your life that you don't know when it will end is too empty, and if you end up selling what is inside, it will be really empty."

The figure of the blond young man faded away, leaving only the old man trembling in the rain.

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Collegiate room.

The rain outside the window began to stop, and the debate in the collegial room continued.

"The second testimony, that of Mrs. Alice, is that she did not actually commit perjury, but she did not see the true face of the strugglers.

Valentin's impassioned words continued to circulate through the collegial room.

"Glasses indentation, Mrs. Alice's nose has obvious indentations, which shows that Mrs. Alice had a habit of wearing glasses earlier, but she took them off when the court session was held today." ….

"Please recall Mrs. Alice's testimony that she was tossing and turning in bed on the night of her eucalyptus hair, and she was going to open the window to breathe, but when she opened the window, she saw two men scuffling together, one of whom seemed to be holding a knife."

"Ladies and gentlemen, it is likely that a person is resting in bed without glasses, and Mrs. Alice's testimony is expressed in uncertain terms in several places, which proves that she did not really know if the person she saw that night was Paul Collin."

"What Mrs. Alice can be sure of is that the murderer is the size of Paul Colin."

After Valente finished his argument, he paused for a moment, and many of the jurors were moved by Valente's words, but Seven seemed to be clearly unconvinced by these arguments.

Valente's argument is logically self-consistent, but there are too many coincidences in this set of arguments.

"The premise of your argument is that Mr. Jim has committed perjury, and you have mentioned so many coincidences, so you might as well put these coincidences on Mr. Jim, and maybe Mr. Jim was too nervous to say his testimony in court? Maybe he actually spent more time at the time, but he deliberately shortened it so that people wouldn't discriminate against his lameness?"

"People with physical disabilities are always a little sensitive, and we should be considerate of that." Seven gave his opinion to the crowd.

As Seven finished speaking, there was a brief silence in the room again.

"We... Let's go to a fourth round of voting." Number One raised his hand to report to the presiding judge.

This is the fourth time that the vote has been taken in the room.

Second vote: 4 against, 6 for, 2 abstentions.

Third vote: 4 against, 5 for, 3 abstentions.

Regardless of whether the guilt is imputed or not, there must be a unanimous number of votes, and even if there is a disagreement, one side must have an overwhelming victory, that is, a special majority.

At this moment, when the jurors are so divided that they cannot reach the conditions for unanimous or special majority voting, a jury stalemate has already been constituted.

The presiding judge is already thinking about whether to re-select the jury or re-run the entire approval process.

[Jingle bell bell——]

The emergency phone rang in the conference room, and the solemn vote was interrupted, and the presiding judge wrinkled in displeasure

With a frown, he went to the emergency call and answered it.

"What's that?"

"Presiding Judge, there was a special circumstance when Jim, one of the original witnesses, suddenly turned himself in, and he stated to us that he had committed perjury for the sake of the police station's bonus." The staff member on the other end of the phone quickly reported to the presiding judge.

The presiding judge was momentarily stunned by this sudden message.

"Alright, I see."

The presiding judge hung up the phone in a strange tone, and then he considered his tone, and then told the twelve jurors present about Jim's perjury, and after listening to it, the jurors all looked at each other, and the scene became a little awkward for a while, especially for Seven.

"Ahem, ahem, let's go ahead with the vote." The presiding judge coughed and continued. ….

It's all here, and the vote can't be stopped.

The fourth vote ended quickly, and the presiding judge slowly read out the results of the vote.

"Twelve votes against, Paul Colin, not guilty!"

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When Valente Bernard came out of the courthouse, he saw the familiar man and dog on the benches of the courthouse.

Valente walked towards a man and a dog.

"A drink for you."

As Valente sat down next to the blonde youth, he was handed a cold drink.

Valente did not politely accept the cold drink handed over by the blonde youth, and after unscrewing the cap, he began to raise his head and rumble and drink wildly, basically he was the only one in the collegial room who spoke the most.

"Next time I should let you be a juror." After drinking bitterly, Valente replied to Xia Xiu with a smile on the side.

"Democracy only works in the hands of smart people." Xia Xiu shrugged his shoulders and replied.

"Procedural justice is always prone to problems, Abraham, you say you are from the kingdom of heaven, then I would like to ask what would happen if the kingdom of heaven on the otherworld interfered with the world?"

Valente asked the blonde youth beside him.

Hearing Valente's question, Xia Xiu stood up from the bench and took out a coin from his bosom.

"The positive side is guilty, and the negative side is innocence."

Under Valente's gaze, Xia Xiu tossed the coin in his hand upward, and the coin began to roll upwards against the sunlight after the rain had passed.

Smack-

The blonde youth stretched out his right hand and held the coin straight.

"The good will be saved, but the evil will be punished."

Looking at the blonde youth's fist-clenched right hand, Valente seemed to understand something, and he asked:

"How can the world understand this arrogance?"

The hand in the fist expresses the absolute justice that the kingdom of heaven believes, and when the kingdom of heaven comes to control this justice, how should the world see the heads and tails of the coins in the fist.

"So the situation now is—"

At this time, the sun was shining, and the rainbow after the rain appeared behind the blonde youth, and the holy light was sprinkled on him.

"The transcendent shall return to heaven, and the worldly to the world."

The blonde youth said.

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Pigeons with salted fish