After the verdict, not only Zhou Yingqi was stunned, but her father, Old Man Zhou, was also a little stupid, and his brain couldn't react.

The court of first instance found that the 1.88 million yuan received by Zhou Yingqi was bribes, and the court of second instance overturned the finding of the court of first instance and ruled that 300,000 yuan was bribes.

The amount of the crime was reduced from 8.48 million yuan to 1.88 million yuan, and then from 1.88 million yuan to 300,000 yuan, which is really not a small drop. After the verdict was announced, she bowed vigorously to the judge to show her gratitude.

Although Fang Yi expected that the 300,000 yuan would most likely be found to be bribes, he did not expect that the court of second instance would reject the bribes of 1.88 million yuan determined by the court of first instance. This was a big surprise for Fang Yi.

Zhou Ying, who was sitting next to Fang Yi, was the most relaxed one in the courtroom, and she was excited after hearing the verdict, this case was enough for her to brag to her colleagues for at least half a year.

Three days later, Zhou Yingqi took her parents to Wanhua United Law Firm and specially sent a pennant to Fang Yi, which read: professional and skilled.

In the evening, Zhou Yingqi feasted Fang Yi, Zhou Ying and Wan Kefa to have a sumptuous meal to show their gratitude.

Zhou Yingqi's case was closed, Fang Yi asked Zhou Ying to help bind the case file, and he sat in front of the computer and began to write a summary of the case, summarizing the judge's judgment ideas in the trial.

On this day, Zhou Ying walked into Fang Yi's office with three legal aid case files.

"Lawyer Fang, how did you start a legal aid case?" Zhou Ying looked at Fang Yi, who was crackling and typing in front of the computer, suspiciously. In her impression, there is a lawyer in charge of legal aid cases, and Fang Yi is not needed.

The sound of tapping on the keyboard disappeared, and Fang Yi looked up at Zhou Ying: "There's no way, lawyer Qian Wen, who used to provide legal aid, is depressed, and now he is under treatment, and he can't handle the case."

Recently, a large number of legal aid cases have come, and the remaining two lawyers who have assisted the cases cannot digest so many cases, so we have to divide one point, and I, as a partner, are naturally indispensable, and I am also divided into three. ”

"Oh, when are you going to meet? I'll make an appointment with you to the detention center. Zhou Ying asked.

"Two robbery cases, one kidnapping case, you can make an appointment with one first, and the suspect may be sentenced to death, at least indefinitely. The family does not care, or the court will not find a legal aid center and appoint a lawyer to participate in the trial. Fang Yi leaned back in his chair and said.

"Understood, I'll do it for you." After Zhou Ying finished speaking, she turned around and went out on a date.

Early the next morning, Fang Yi took Zhou Ying to the detention center, and this time they met with Cao Kun, the defendant in the robbery.

Cao Kun is 1.8 meters tall, thin, short-headed, hair like steel needles, and a face with sharp edges and corners.

"I am lawyer Fang Yi from Wanhua United Law Firm, and this is Zhou Ying, a trainee lawyer, and we are assigned by the Legal Aid Center to serve as your defender." Fang Yi introduced himself.

Cao Kun didn't speak, just smiled and nodded, looking indifferent, his eyes were full of indifference and frivolity, without a trace of emotion.

"Can you tell me about the incident?" Fang Yi said.

"Do you want to hear the details or do you want to hear the rough, I'm afraid this little girl will have nightmares at night." Cao Kun looked at Zhou Ying with a smile, his eyes full of contempt.

Hey! What are you dragging a robber, Zhou Ying's eyes suddenly became sharp.

"Don't look at me like that, I'm for your good, and people are good when they die." Cao Kun raised his chin and pointed his nostrils at Zhou Ying as if provocative.

"We are your lawyers, and I hope you will tell us again what you have said to the public security organs and the procuratorate, and only then can I make an effective defense for you." Fang Yi said.

"To be honest, I didn't plan to go out again this time, and the result is the same whether you defend or not." After a moment of silence, Cao Kun continued: "Okay, I'll just nag with you." ”

Cao Kun, a farmer from a small remote county in Linxian Province, was arrested red-handed by the police in October 2001 for robbery with a knife in Linxian Province, and was later sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Intermediate People's Court.

After being released, Cao Kun couldn't find a job, so he could only set up his own stall to earn some money.

On the afternoon of August 20, 2014, Cao Kun came to the city to buy a piece of nylon rope from a roadside hardware store, and then carried the nylon rope to a remote county below to find a robbery target.

The next day, after lunch, he came out of the hotel and saw a local taxi parked on the side of the road, the driver was in his fifties, with gray hair, and drinking tea from a large teacup made of cans. He accidentally saw that the taxi driver's pockets were bulging, and he thought that he must have money, so he leaned over and got into a taxi and sat in the back seat on the pretext of going to see relatives in the village below.

When the taxi arrived at the farmland dirt road outside the county seat, Cao Kun saw that there was no shop in front of the village and no shop behind the village, and there were few vehicles on the road, so he asked the taxi driver to park the car on the edge of the woods on the side of the road on the pretext that it was convenient to go down. The taxi driver was dissatisfied, but he couldn't let the customer pull in the car, so he parked the taxi on the edge of the woods on the side.

As soon as the car stopped, Cao Kun suddenly took out a nylon rope and strangled the taxi driver's neck and demanded money from him. The taxi driver held on to the nylon rope with both hands and resisted violently.

Seeing the taxi driver like this, Cao Kun sat on the back seat with the knee of his right leg against the back of the driver's seat, exerted his whole body, and pulled the nylon rope with both hands, and after a while, the taxi driver did not move and lost his breath (mechanical suffocation death). Cao Kun was afraid that the taxi driver would fake his death, so he tied the nylon rope tightly around the driver's neck.

Cao Kun then dragged the taxi driver's body out of the car and threw it in the woods. He took out the driver's pocket and found that it contained only more than 200 yuan in cash, a miscellaneous mobile phone and half a roll of toilet paper. At this time, he realized that the reason why the driver's pocket was bulging was because there was half a roll of toilet paper inside.

Cao Kun scolded bad luck, left half a roll of toilet paper on the edge of the woods, took out his mobile phone, and looked at it for a long time and felt that it was worthless and still on the side of the road. He then fled the scene in a car.

On the way to escape, Cao Kun found that the taxi could not be realized, and the target was too obvious, so he abandoned the stolen taxi on the dirt road to Jin Province. After that, in order to avoid the limelight, he hid.

(End of chapter)