"Lawyer Fang, am I considered legitimate defense?" Lu Chen asked.

"Well, it's justified defense, but it's excessive defense. If you only stabbed him in the leg at the time, did not pursue and stabbed him in the chest while he fled. Then you are justified in self-defense and do not need to bear legal responsibility at all. Fang Yi said.

"But Lawyer Zhang said that my actions were justified defense, and I should be innocent." Lu Chen was puzzled.

"This is a lawyer's personal understanding of the case, and I personally think that you are in excessive defense, and the court sentenced you too harshly, and the punishment should be reduced." Fang Yi didn't want to evaluate what other lawyers did, first, it was easy to offend people, and second, it didn't conform to his principles of life.

"Well, I see." Lu Chen said.

He was willing to trust Mr. Zhang because it was in his interest, but the judge did not accept Mr. Zhang's view, which made his trust in Mr. Zhang shake a little. When the middle-aged male lawyer in front of him said this, he didn't know who to believe now.

Two days later, Lu Chen's mother, Zhao Lanlan, walked into the conference room of Wanhua United Law Firm again, this time with her husband, Lu Honglai. Lu Chen's father, Lu Honglai, is very magnificent, giving people a sense of being scheming. This time, Ouyang Jie didn't come with him.

"Lawyer Fang, my son's case ......," Zhao Lanlan asked, her eyes full of anticipation.

"This is the legal analysis opinion I drafted on Lu Chen's criminal case, please take a look at it." Fang Yi said and handed a printed and bound legal analysis opinion to the noble lady.

After Zhao Lanlan took the legal analysis opinion, she handed it to Lu Honglai beside her.

Five minutes later, Lu Honglai saw Fang Yi: "Lawyer Fang, according to your opinion, my son's behavior is excessive defense, and he will definitely go to jail!" So what will the court of second instance decide? Affirmation? ”

If Fang Yi said this before the trial of the first trial, Lu Honglai would definitely raise his legs and leave, and he would not waste his spit, because in his heart, his son was beaten and the other party was killed as a result, which is legitimate defense, how can he be found guilty.

But now that the court of first instance has ruled that Lu Chen has committed the crime of intentional injury and sentenced Lu Chen to 15 years in prison, he does not dare to joke with his son's future. Sometimes it makes sense to stick to your opinion, but sometimes it's stupid to stick to your opinion, and that's a brain-dead thing to do.

Lu Honglai is a businessman, and he has done it very successfully, so he will judge the situation and will not run all the way to the dark. Although he didn't want his son Lu Chen to be in prison, the reality was not based on his opinion, and the first-instance verdict dealt him a heavy blow, and he now wanted to hear the opinions of other professionals.

"Mr. Lu, I can't say for sure how the second-instance trial will sentence Lu Chen, but I think there is a problem with the facts determined by the court of first instance, and the applicable law is also wrong, and the fifteen-year prison sentence is a bit too heavy!

If I were an advocate, I would plead a lesser offense, not a pleada not-guilty plea. My expectation is less than 10 years, and of course the shorter the sentence, the better. Fang Yi said.

"Well, if we entrust you to defend my son, how will you charge the lawyer's fees?" Lu Honglai asked.

"If I appear in court to defend myself, the lawyer's fee is 100,000 yuan." Fang Yi said.

"What if the final result is that the court of second instance upholds the original verdict?" Lu Honglai asked.

"Mr. Lu, a criminal case is not a transaction, I can't decide what the court will decide in the end, if you want to link the final verdict to the lawyer's fee, I'm sorry, you can only find another lawyer in this case." Fang Yi said solemnly.

"Okay, Lawyer Fang, let's go back and discuss, and then contact you later." After Lu Hong finished speaking, he touched Zhao Lanlan, got up and left the conference room.

Fang Yi felt that eighty percent of this case was flying! However, a legal analysis opinion in a criminal case was sold for 50,000 yuan, which is okay!

One night a few days later, Lu Honglai returned home tired, and Zhao Lanlan, who had already slept, immediately asked the nanny to serve a bowl of lotus seed soup.

"Honglai, what did Lawyer Zhang say?" Zhao Lanlan asked.

"Lawyer Zhang's opinion is to insist on defending his innocence, but now that the case has reached the provincial high court, he needs money to move around." Lu Honglai took a sip of lotus seed soup and said.

"Want money again? In the last trial, in addition to the lawyer's fees, he said that he had taken another 200,000 yuan for the relationship, and the result was not 15 years. How much does he want this time? Zhao Lanlan said dissatisfied.

"He said that he couldn't reach the provincial high court, and he needed to find a friend to help, so he took 100,000 yuan to walk around first, and after he got on the line with that side, the specific amount he needed depends on the meaning of the other side, and it is estimated to be a whole number." Lu Hong said.

"Ah, so many! Can he guarantee our son's acquittal? Zhao Lanlan was surprised.

"Lawyer Zhang said that it's hard to say now, it depends on what it means." Lu Hong said.

"That's not guaranteed! Honglai, did you say that Lawyer Zhang would take this opportunity to cheat us out of money?

In the previous first trial, he swore at the wine table, saying that he knew the judge of the Intermediate Court, and called the judge a brother, and he would definitely do things with the money, but what was the result, the money was given, the lawyer's fees were also given, and 300,000 yuan went out before and after, and our son was still sentenced to 15 years. Zhao Lanlan said angrily.

Lu Honglai also felt that he was guilty, in fact, he had already realized that something was wrong, but the company's legal counsel, lawyer Zhang, had indeed helped him to entrust someone to do things, so he had been hesitating.

"Why don't we entrust a lawyer to try it in the second instance? It's not that we are reluctant to spend money, 300,000 yuan have been thrown out, and there is no splash, we can't do this anymore, we have to eat a trench and grow wise.

At least the money of the lawyer is collected on the surface, and the big law firm is still more disciplined, unlike a small law firm like Lawyer Zhang's leather bag company.

And I've checked it all, lawyer Fang has done a lot of criminal cases, and he is very famous in the industry.

Look at Lawyer Zhang again, he travels around with a bag all day long, and there are few cases that can be taken at all, and the dog lifts the curtain with one mouth. A moment later, Zhao Lanlan said.

Lu Hong glanced at Zhao Lanlan and wanted to tell her that this kind of person is popular in this society now, isn't it like this at home, in the company, or even in anything? Honest work is not reused at all.

But he carefully pondered his daughter-in-law's words, and there was a certain truth in what he said, this kind of squatting in prison really can't find a trickster, or a person who really does things is reassuring.

In fact, at this time, Lu Honglai didn't have so many expectations for the relationship in Lawyer Zhang's mouth, but he was just holding a bit of luck, and at this moment, his heart was moved by his daughter-in-law's words.

"Okay, why don't you try it with a lawyer. Lawyer Zhang didn't reply yet. The appeal petition was written by lawyer Zhang, and you can show it to lawyer Fang when you go back, complete the entrustment procedures as soon as possible, and let lawyer Fang prepare for the trial. Lu Honglai "snapped" the armrest of the chair and settled the matter.

(End of chapter)