Chapter 363, unsatisfactory
Brooklyn didn't know what Pence Norton was thinking, he just sensed that the old guy looked at him with a swishing look in his eyes.
According to the process, after reading out the verdict and the charges filed by the plaintiff, the plaintiff will present evidence to prove that the defendant is indeed a criminal suspect and persuade the court to accept the case.
Jason Bull stood up and pulled down the hem of his suit. Brooklyn was right, he had gained a lot of weight, and the coat he used to wear was a little smaller.
However, this does not affect Jason Bull's ability in the slightest. In addition to throwing out the evidence from the previous hearing, he did not immediately bring out the list of employees of the Succubus Company, but turned to Edward Norton to ask questions.
"What were you doing on April 25th?"
“obje!” Without waiting for Edward Norton to answer, the elite lawyer immediately stood up and objected.
"They should be presenting evidence, not asking questions of my client!"
"Objections are invalid!" Brooklyn spoke, motioning for Edward Norton to reply. Edward Norton looked back at his father, Pence Norton, and replied in a slur manner
"Yes, at school, and then, and then home."
"Which home are you going back to?" Jason Bull asked. Edward Norton looked back at his father again, and then gave the address of the apartment building next to Baruch College.
"Plaintiff's lawyer, please restrain your assistant." Brooklyn had to open her mouth to remind Jason Bull of his identity.
He is a paralegal, not a lawyer. Trunko shrugged, got up amid Jason Bull's uncomfortable expression, and followed Jason Bull's train of thought
"May I ask who the defendant went back with? Is it yourself? ”
“obje!” The elite lawyer stood up, rather indignant
"Your Excellency! None of these questions have anything to do with Ben Eucalyptus! This is my personal privacy, and my client has the right to refuse to answer questions! ”
"The objection is invalid." Brooklyn paused, glancing up at the elite lawyer
"April 25 is the date of the violation of the rumored victim, Ovis de Silva Velázquez, how can it not be related to the eucalyptus? This is indeed Edward Norton's privacy, but privacy involves a matter of fact. As a citizen of the Commonwealth, you have an obligation to cooperate. The elite lawyer was a little dumbfounded, and also looked back at Pence Norton.
What is his obligation? Which law says it? The Federal Constitution only stipulates that the privacy of citizens and private property are sacrosanct.
So, what kind of obligation are you talking about? He had long known that due to off-the-field factors, the original case would not go so smoothly, but he didn't expect it to be so unsmooth.
"With a few friends." Edward Norton replied.
"What do you want to see?" Trunco asked again. Edward Norton looked back at his father again. This time, he did not answer questions for a long time.
"Edward Norton, please answer the question." Brooklyn looked up and reminded.
"Throw a party." Edward Norton was silent for a moment and whispered.
"Did you run it yourself or did you commission it from another company?" Trunco glanced at the note Jason handed over and continued to ask.
There was a long silence again, and then I looked back at my father. Brooklyn spoke again
"Does Mr. Pence Norton have answers to these questions written on his face?" He asked. The question elicited a chuckle in the auditorium.
Pence Norton's face was a little ugly. Edward Norton hurriedly turned back, bowed his head, and said nothing.
"If not, then please don't keep looking back at Mr. Pence Norton, or if Mr. Pence Norton's presence prevents you from answering questions, we can ask Mr. Pence Norton to go out first."
"Or how about you answer the question?"
"We hired a company called Succubus Feast Company to help set it up." Edward Norton said with a stumbling face.
"Have you seen the victim at this banquet?" Trenko asked with a glaring at Jason Bull, who kept handing over the note.
Brooklyn glanced at Jason Bull. I haven't seen him for a few days, and Jason Bull, who has a daughter, is too expressive.
At the same time, I have to sigh that Jason Bull is still old and spicy. When he already had a list of personnel, he was not satisfied, and he still thought about fishing...... This time, Edward Norton refused to answer.
"Your Excellency, just let the other party ask me directly if the client has violated the victim." The elite lawyer scoffed.
"Does he have it?" Brooklyn nodded and asked directly. In the midst of the stunned look on the face of the elite lawyer, Brooklyn continued
"Edward Norton, please answer the question. Who were the people who were at the party that day. Including those who participated in the middle of the process, as well as those who were present at the beginning. Brooklyn didn't look at Pence Norton when he asked the question, he stared at Edward Norton.
It was only when Pence Norton moved his butt uncomfortably and straightened his shirt that he shifted his gaze, lingering on Pence Norton for a moment, and then moving away as if nothing had happened.
Edward Norton was just about to look back at his father when Brooklyn's words rang in his ears
"Is it Pence Norton with a reply written on his face? Or does he influence you to answer questions? Need to get Pence Norton out? As he spoke, Ray stepped forward with another bailiff.
"No!" Edward Norton subconsciously shouted, and then realized that he had overreacted, and he immediately switched back to his original whisper
"It's all my friends."
"I've met her, she's one of the employees of the Succubus Company and is responsible for dancing at parties." Trunco opened his mouth, ready to take out the list of employees of the Succubus Company, but Brooklyn didn't stop asking.
He continued
"Who are your brothers?" Jason Bull raised his chin at Jerry
"Registrar, make a note of the names provided by the accused."
"Shut up!" Brooklyn couldn't take it anymore. Jason Bull obediently shut up.
"You can say it." Jerry nodded, opened a blank document, and said. There was a terrible silence in the courtroom, save for the humming of computers.
Brooklyn tilted his head slightly with interest, his gaze wandering back and forth between the Norton father and son. According to the original plan, he needed to make the indictment admissible, and dealing with Pence Norton was a matter of later.
However, in the short Q&A session that had just begun, Brooklyn suddenly discovered that Edward Norton might be a breakthrough.
A breakthrough that put Pence Norton in the dock in one fell swoop. In the middle of a few questions and answers, Brooklyn had already completed a portrait of Edward Norton in his mind.
Although he didn't learn this professionally, and probably wasn't as accurate as Bau, it was more than enough to analyze and predict this simple big boy.
He found that Edward Norton was very dependent on Burns Norton. If the actions of the Norton father and son are regarded as committing a crime, Burns Norton is undoubtedly the mastermind, and Edward Norton is an accomplice of Burns Norton who manipulates him with family affection or other emotions.
Pence Norton's manipulation of Edward Norton is all-round, and it has reached the point where Edward Norton can't live without Pence Norton at all.
Brooklyn speculated that everything about Edward in life should have been made by Pence for him.
This 'help' is not so much help as 'control'. Pence had absolute control and dominance over Edward, and Edward was unconditionally obedient to Pence.
Edward Norton is simply a marionette in the hands of Burns Norton. In the face of this highly dependent 'group crime', even the patrol officers on the street know what to do - Brooklyn saw that Edward Norton was silent, and raised his chin at Thunder.
Ray understood and walked towards Pence Norton with another colleague. Since Pence was sitting right behind Edward, sitting in Edward's place, Ray seemed to be walking towards him.
He was a little panicked at first, subconsciously looked back at his father, and then realized that they were not coming for himself, but for his father.
Then he remembered what Brooklyn had just said. Ray and Brooklyn seemed to be in the same mind, and instead of entering the auditorium from the side and walking to Pence's side, he deliberately made a detour and walked past Edward.
He even deliberately touched the handcuffs on his waist as he passed in front of Edward.
"I say! I say! Edward Norton shouted in a panic. Brooklyn nodded. Ray let go of the hand that had been clutching Pence Norton's arm.
Edward Norton gave two names, and was immediately stopped by an elite lawyer.
"Your Excellency, I would like to speak with the plaintiff." This is often a sign of a readiness to negotiate an out-of-court resolution.
Perhaps at other times, other cases prosecuted by others could have worked, but today, they are not destined to work.
"Your Excellency, we have nothing to talk to the accused." Jason Bull simply refused to talk, and there was no room for negotiation.
The elite lawyer frowned, realizing that things were not that simple. In fact, this is to be expected.
In Orvis Eucalyptus, Brooklyn is the most impure group of people, they are ready to use Orvis Eucalyptus to convict Edward Norton, enter the water through Edward Norton Lapence Norton, and then plow the court to sweep the holes, clean up the stinky fish and shrimp gathered by Pence, complete the shuffle, and build a new order.
Orvis is just a springboard for them, a means, and much more pure than anyone else.
Edward Norton was trying to get away with it. Jason Bull was motivated entirely by righteous indignation. Other women's and university advocacy organizations are for honor.
Even Edward Norton's lawyer is for a lot of legal fees.
"Your Excellency, Judge." The elite lawyer thought for a moment and spoke
"The attendees of the April 25 party are private and have nothing to do with it." After a pause, he said directly
"With the evidence that the plaintiff has now, it should be enough for you to accept the indictment." Brooklyn pouted secretly, but there was a serious look on his face.
"Are you against me?" He asked. The elite lawyer shook his head
"No, I didn't mean that......"
"Then let your client finish." Brooklyn pointed to Edward Norton
"I think the list of participants is the key to this." Under pressure from Brooklyn, the elite lawyer turned around and gave Pence Norton a helpless look, and then asked Edward Norton to dictate the list.
Edward Norton spoke intermittently, Jerry crackled, and soon, a list of more than thirty names was released.
Jerry looked back at Brooklyn. Brooklyn was looking at Edward Norton with a frown. He provided more than 30 people, which is very good, these more than 30 people basically appear in the form of a combination of father and son, including many figures in the political and business circles.
The media in the auditorium had already brightened their eyes and were writing hard to record the names of these people. Once Edward Norton is convicted, it will mean that these thirty or so others are likely to be involved!
That's big news! Even, some reporters with a keen sense of smell quietly set their eyes on Pence Norton, who was sitting in the first row.
Pence Norton also attended! Turning their eyes around the Norton father and son, some of the brain-opening reporters have already begun to conceive an unsightly silver party scene.
Brooklyn is also watching Edward Norton. He confessed to more than thirty people, but there was no Pence Norton among them.
"Didn't your father, Mr. Pence Norton, come home that night?" Brooklyn asked. Edward Norton froze, stared blankly at Brooklyn, quickly lowered his head, and then couldn't help but start looking behind him.
“obje!! obje!! Elite lawyers spoke out.
"It's ridiculous! This is ridiculous! This is a slur! It's ridiculous to slander Edward Norton alone, to slander another of my clients! Brooklyn was stunned and didn't react for a while.
He looked at the elite Fan Fan lawyer who was shouting loudly and dancing, and it took a while to come back to his senses and ask in disbelief
"Are you against me?"
"You're saying I'm ridiculous?"
"You think I'm slandering Edward Norton and Pence Norton?!" At the end of the day, Brooklyn's voice was raised and his face was full of anger.
The lawyer's mouth was wide open, his body stiffened there, and he held a comical posture, looking at Brooklyn in dismay, and after a moment, the expression on his face changed to a mixture of sudden realization and annoyance and fear.
"I'm sorry, Your Excellency, but I didn't mean that." The lawyer shook his head
"I, I'm just so excited, I'm sorry." Brooklyn sneered.
"We'll settle the account for your offense against me later. Now let Edward Norton answer the question, did Pence Norton attend the party on the evening of April 25th? "This lawyer wants to get through by pretending to be crazy, and how can Brooklyn let him get it.
Edward Norton was silent for a long time, then shook his head.
"I don't know."
"Me, I drank a lot that night, I don't know, I can't remember." Brooklyn looked at the plaintiff's seat.
Jason Bull was writing and drawing on paper with his eyes shining. It wasn't possible to pull Pence Norton into the water in one step, but it's not bad right now, at least it's going according to plan.
Brooklyn retracted his gaze, silently comforted himself in his heart, and casually issued a 'ticket'.
"A $1,000 fine and 200 hours of community service will be imposed on the defense lawyer for his blatant offense and provocation and contempt of court." After a pause, Brooklyn continued
"Mr. Lawyer, since you have such a big opinion of me, we will not meet in the future, you are not welcome in Court No. 9."