"When did you receive the criminal verdict?" Fang Yi asked.

"It seems to be ...... the day before yesterday, yes, the day before yesterday, I went to the court with the lawyer to get it." Jiang Xue thought for a while.

"The appeal period is only ten days, counting from the day after receiving the verdict, and it has been two days now, which is a tight time, Ms. Jiang, do you want to entrust me to handle the second trial? Or is it just a consultation? After Fang Yi asked, he looked at Mr. Meng.

"We want to entrust this case to you, how much do you think the attorney's fees will be required?" Mr. Meng.

"I didn't handle this case in the first instance, and the second instance is difficult, and the workload will be greater and more energy-consuming than the first trial, so if I am entrusted with this case, the lawyer's fee will be 60,000 yuan.

It is limited to the second instance, and if it is necessary to apply for a retrial, or remand for a new trial, it is necessary to re-entrust and pay the lawyer's fees separately. Fang Yi thought for a while.

"Can you guarantee the acquittal of our family Dou Tao?" Jiang Xue asked suddenly.

"No, I can't. I can only formulate a defense plan according to the facts of the case, and provide Dou Tao with a defense of not guilty or a defense of minor crimes, and I cannot guarantee the outcome of the case. Fang Yi said solemnly.

What are you kidding, that lawyer can guarantee that your husband will be acquitted, and the lawyer is not a judge.

"Lawyer Fang, don't mind, my brother and sister don't know much about this." After Mr. Meng finished speaking, he looked at Jiang Xue helplessly: "Brother and sister, no lawyer can guarantee the outcome of the case......

"But the lawyer said it was okay...... Jiang Xue was unconvinced.

"He said no problem, why did the court give him a suspended sentence?" Mr. Meng was dissatisfied.

"This ......" Jiang Xue stopped squeaking.

"Ms. Jiang, we lawyers can't promise the result to the client when handling the case, otherwise it will be a violation.

The lawyer you mentioned, I don't know what he thinks is going to promise you a result, but I really can't give you any guarantees. Why don't you try him again? Fang Yi said lightly.

Fang Yi could see that Mr. Meng and Ms. Jiang were not very satisfied with the lawyer before, otherwise they would not have come to him to talk about the entrustment. So he made a move to "want to get away with it", if you Ms. Jiang think that the lawyer before is good, you can go to him, there is no problem. Fang Yi knew in her heart that she would never go to her previous lawyer again.

Jiang Xue saw that the situation was not right, and immediately changed her words: "Lawyer Fang, don't get me wrong, I don't know your lawyer, I think as long as you give the lawyer's fee, you can guarantee the result." Just do as you say. Proceed with the entrustment procedure immediately. ”

With the assistance of Zhou Ying, Jiang Xue completed the entrustment procedures and paid the lawyer's fees. Fang Yi sent Mr. Meng and Jiang Xue out of the law firm.

"Lawyer Fang, you can! Not long after the end of the year, you signed a deal. Congratulations! Congratulations! Zhou Ying smiled.

"What is this, just making some hard-earned money." Fang Yi said with a smile.

In the afternoon, Fang Yi called to make an appointment for a meeting at the detention center early the next morning, and he was going to meet Dou Tao to ask for details, and then come back to draft an appeal.

In the detention center, the man sitting opposite Fang Yi looked like he was in his thirties, with a pair of small eyes shining and two thick eyebrows that were very conspicuous. His skin was bronzed, and he knew at a glance that he often worked in the fields.

After Dou Tao finished signing the entrustment procedures, Fang Yi put away the entrustment procedures and asked: "Dou Tao, what happened on the day of the crime, you tell me from beginning to end, the more detailed, the better." ”

Dou Tao nodded: "This matter has to start with me contracting the land in the village to plant fruit trees......

Dou Tao graduated from agricultural school that year, technical secondary school degree (the secondary school degree was very powerful), at first he worked in the county's agricultural department, and later resigned and contracted 40 acres of mountainous land in the village, and began to plant large peaches and apples, this contract is ten years.

In December 2012, when Dou Tao's contract expired, he proposed to the village that he had the right of first refusal in accordance with the contract and requested to continue to contract the land.

The village told him that he could continue to contract the land, but that the contract fee would be increased. Dou Tao felt that the land contract proposed by the village was too high, and the two sides talked about it no less than three times, but finally did not sign a new land contract because they could not reach an agreement.

After that, the village did not look for Dou Tao, and Dou Tao continued to set up a picking garden on the contracted land. During this period, Dou Tao negotiated with the village to renew the land lease contract and took the initiative to ask for the rent to be paid, but the village leaders did not make it clear whether to renew the contract, and the village did not collect the rent in time, so Dou Tao continued to run his picking garden, and the village did not look for him again.

In October last year, the village's "two committees" and the villagers' congress decided to take back the land contracted by Dou Tao, and informed Dou Tao of the relevant situation, so that he could clean up the ground by himself.

After receiving the notice, Dou Tao thought that the fruit trees he had planted for so many years would be cut down when he said that he would cut them, and the village did not mention anything about the compensation, which was unreasonable, so he continued to operate the picking garden and waited for someone from the village to talk about the compensation.

In November, the village gave Dou Tao an ultimatum that if he did not clean up the ground by himself, the village would send someone to uproot all the fruit trees.

After that, seeing that Dou Tao did not react, more than a dozen people, including Zhang Dabao, a security guard and temporary hired person in the village, went to Dou Tao's orchard with axes, chainsaws and other tools to forcibly cut down fruit trees.

Dou Tao's daughter-in-law Jiang Xue stepped forward to stop her, but was pulled aside by the security guards to control her. Seeing that his fruit tree was cut down and his daughter-in-law was controlled by the other party, Dou Tao's eyes were red, and he picked up a kitchen knife to drive away from the security guards, and in the process, Zhang Dabao was cut by the kitchen knife in Dou Tao's hand.

When Dou Tao saw that he had injured someone, he immediately stopped, and the two sides were at a stalemate in the orchard. Later, the village cadres reported to the police, and after the evaluation of the injuries, Zhang Dabao was found to be slightly injured, and the public security organs imposed a penalty of 15 days of administrative detention on Dou Tao.

Seeing that Dou Tao reacted so violently, the village also stopped cutting down fruit trees.

After being released, Dou Tao bought a gift and took the initiative to apologize to Zhang Dabao's house, the two did not have a deep hatred, and they lived in a village, and they didn't look up to see each other, since Dou Tao had come to the door to admit his mistake, Zhang Dabao accepted his apology and forgave him.

A few days later, the public security organs suddenly came to the door to arrest Dou Tao for the crime of picking quarrels and provoking troubles, followed by the county procuratorate to approve the arrest, review and prosecution, and within a few days, the county procuratorate accused Dou Tao of the crime of picking quarrels and provoking troubles, and filed a public prosecution with the county people's court. Subsequently, the county court found that the defendant Dou Tao constituted the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, and sentenced him to one year in prison with a one-year probation.

Dou Tao was not satisfied and was ready to appeal.

"Didn't the village talk to you about compensation before cutting down your orchard?" Fang Yi asked.

"I haven't talked about it. After the village sent me a notice, he never called me again. Dou Tao said.

"In the land contract between you and the village, is there any agreement on the disposal of the above-ground objects after the expiration of the lease period?" Fang Yi asked as he took notes.

"The land contract was written by the village, and it was very simple, at that time, it was only agreed that the above-ground objects belonged to me, but there was no agreement on how to deal with the above-ground objects after the expiration of the contract." Dou Tao said.

"What was the state of the land when you leased it? Is there a description in the contract? Fang Yi continued to ask.

"When I rented the land, it was full of weeds, bare, and the contract said barren mountains. The fruit trees were all planted by me after I contracted them, and the village also recognized that the fruit trees were mine.

When I took out a loan from the credit union, the village also issued a certificate that all the fruit trees in the orchard were planted by me. It belongs to me personally, not collectively. Dou Tao said.

"Who is in charge of the orchard now?" Fang Yi asked.

"Since I was arrested last winter, my daughter-in-law has been working on the orchard with a few workers, and according to my former lawyer, the village approached my daughter-in-law about reclaiming the orchard. But my daughter-in-law didn't agree to the compensation because she didn't give too little. Dou Tao said.

"I'll first draft an appeal brief, and I'll come back to you tomorrow or the day after tomorrow to sign the appeal. Do you have anything you need me to tell your lover? Fang Yi said.

"Let her take care of the child, don't worry about me, I'm fine." Dou Tao forced a smile and smiled.

After returning to the law firm, Fang Yi sorted out the entire case in the afternoon, and drafted an appeal petition based on the criminal verdict of the first instance, which roughly read: The facts found in the first instance were unclear, the conviction and the application of law were wrong, and the appellant Dou Tao's behavior did not constitute the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, and requested the court to change the verdict of Dou Tao not guilty in accordance with the law.

The next day, Fang Yi came to the detention center again to meet Dou Tao, and after asking a few more details, he left the detention center and went directly to the county court to submit an appeal and entrustment procedures.

After the start of school, Fang Anzhi no longer lived on campus and went to school instead.

Originally, Fang Anzhi didn't want his father to pick him up, thinking that he was already a junior high school student and could go to and from school by himself, but Fang Yi felt that there were many people on the road, so it was more practical to pick up and drop off the car. (The hearts of parents all over the world understand it)

In order to understand his son's learning situation, Fang Yi specially called the head teacher to inquire, Fang Anzhi's head teacher is a female teacher in her fifties, very responsible, and usually talks to Fang Anzhi.

According to the reaction of the head teacher, since the death of his mother, Fang Anzhi is like a different person, although he is usually silent, he studies very hard and ranks among the best in the monthly exam. In the teacher's words, Fang Anzhi must have been enlightened and awakened after being stimulated!

Seeing that Fang Anzhi came back from school every day, after dinner, he drilled into the house and began to study, until he went to bed at about twelve o'clock in the evening, and the thunder could not move, Fang Yi was not a taste in his heart, and he was worried that the child would be stupid, so he taught him tea art on the weekend, changed his brain, and occasionally went out to eat with Lao Huang and others, and would also bring him with him and let him have more contact with the outside.

Fang Yi knows that a rural baby has no relationship, no background, and can't compare with the second and third generations, if you want to go out, there is basically no other way to choose except studying.

Ordinary people always have to suffer a little in this life, and if they don't suffer from studying, they have to suffer from life, or they may suffer both. But in any case, learning is still the most effective way for the children of ordinary people to cross classes.

More than half a month later, the second instance of Dou Tao's case finally moved, and after the Intermediate People's Court talked to Fang Yi once, it did not take long for it to make a ruling, finding that the facts found by the court of first instance were unclear, and remanding the case of Dou Tao for picking quarrels and provoking troubles to the county court for retrial.

The case was remanded for retrial, which means that Fang Yi has completed Jiang Xue's previous entrustment, and the retrial of the case has nothing to do with him.

Jiang Xue looked at the ruling remanded for retrial, her heart was full of hope, but when she thought that it was too easy for Fang Yi to earn the 60,000 yuan in lawyer fees, she just submitted an appeal petition and talked once, but she didn't even open the court, and now her husband Dou Tao's lawsuit is going to be retried, and she has to pay the lawyer's fees to re-enact, and her heart is always a little unbalanced.

At noon, when Mr. Meng returned home, he saw Jiang Xue chatting with his wife. He frowned, Jiang Xue usually doesn't come to the house, why did he suddenly come here today, he couldn't help but draw a big question mark in his heart.

"Lao Meng, Jiang Xue has something to do with you, I'll go to the kitchen to see if Auntie has made lunch, you can talk." After speaking, Mr. Meng's daughter-in-law got up and walked to the kitchen.

Mr. Meng sat on the sofa expressionlessly, then took out a cigarette from the cigarette case on the coffee table, lit it and asked, "Is everything good at home?" ”

"It's all good at home. Brother-in-law, I came here to ask you for a favor? Jiang Xue was a little afraid of Mr. Meng, so she seemed a little restrained when she spoke.

"What's the matter?" Mr. Meng exhaled the smoke in his mouth and asked.

"The last time I entrusted lawyer Fang to handle Dou Tao's case, lawyer Fang was very professional, and after submitting an appeal, the case was remanded for retrial by the Intermediate People's Court.

The second instance was not held, but I just talked to lawyer Fang once. Now the county court wants to retry Dou Tao's case, and the lawyer I entrusted to handle the second instance was the second instance, so I have to re-sign the entrustment procedures this time.

The entrustment procedures are easy to handle, but the lawyer's fee is ......, not because I picked it, the main reason is that the lawyer did not do much work in the second trial, and the lawyer's fee of 60,000 yuan was given, and Dou Tao's case did not have a clear statement...... "Jiang Xue said with a look of grievance.

"What do you want to do?" Mr. Meng listened quietly, he probably understood what Jiang Xue meant, it was too easy for lawyers to make money.

"See if you can help me talk to Lawyer Fang, make up the formalities, and handle the case for this retrial together. 60,000 yuan in legal fees is not a small number! Lawyer Fang definitely does not lose. Jiang Xue's eyes lit up.

If Jiang Xue and her family were better to the old lady, maybe Mr. Meng would really go to Fang Yi or Yunmei to intercede, but if he really couldn't pay the lawyer's fees for Dou Tao, it would not be a problem.

But Jiang Xue has fished all the good things of her mother-in-law's family to her mother's house for so many years, and she is very mean to the old lady, if it weren't for the old lady's fear that the villagers would poke her son's backbone, she would have moved to Mr. Meng's house a long time ago. What Dou Tao and his wife did was very unpopular, and Mr. Meng usually didn't like to deal with them.

If it weren't for his daughter-in-law's intercession this time, Mr. Meng would not have bothered to pay attention to the Dou family's affairs.

"It's not easy. It is very clear in black and white that you have entrusted the second instance, and now the case is back to the county court for a new trial, and according to the contract, the work of the lawyer has been completed.

You just said that the second instance was not held, but you just asked Lawyer Fang to talk to you once, but after someone went to talk once, the case was remanded for retrial, isn't this work? Anyway, I don't have the face to go to the lawyer to talk about it.

If you feel that the fee of lawyer Fang is too high, you can find another lawyer. Mr. Meng was very dissatisfied with Jiang Xue and rejected her request.

"Brother-in-law, I didn't mean that. I can trust Lawyer Fang's professional ability, but ......" Jiang Xue made a big nest of roast chicken, embarrassing, really embarrassing.

"There's no 'but', if you want to save money, you can hire the lawyer from before, so be it, it's not easy for you to come once, and then leave after eating in a while." Mr. Meng didn't even look at her and said.

"No...... No need. I'll go back and eat. Brother-in-law, I'll go first. After Jiang Xue finished speaking, she got up awkwardly and walked out. That's all that has been said, and she still has the face there to sit down to eat.

(End of chapter)