Chapter 23 Father's Kindness and Son's Filial Piety (2)
Ninth Circuit, Third Division.
Li Guan looked at Lu Ming, who was sitting in the dock as the first defender. The old lady had a look of reproach in her eyes.
Lu Ming could only pretend that he couldn't see it.
To the left of Lu Ming, sat the second defender, a tall man from the city - Gao Tiantian.
He is a handsome man in his forties, with a smooth slicked back hair, a short black trench coat, and a Double Lion gold watch. He is a very successful man.
He looked unhappy and ignored Lu Ming, so a rookie lawyer usurped his position as the lead defender. For him, it was a great shame and humiliation.
But his client Liu Laocai asked like this, so he had no choice but to sit there in silence, closing his eyes and concentrating.
At this time, Liu Keyue stepped onto the witness stand.
That is, Liu Laocai's eldest son, the "little third son" in his mouth.
Liu Keyue's face is somewhat similar to Liu Laocai's, with a round face and small eyes. She looks towards her father from time to time, feeling a little uneasy.
The prosecutor on the other side just stood up, and Lu Ming stood up again, "I reiterate that the defense is opposed to the prosecution calling Liu Keyue as a witness. If Liu Keyue is suspected of illegal behavior and should be prosecuted by the prosecutor, I will be happy to defend Mr. Liu Keyue."
lawyer……"
Li Guan waved his hand and looked at the jury, "The new witness's confession is closely related to this case, so you should listen carefully!"
Lu Ming shook his head and sat down.
The prosecutor wearing a dark blue uniform opposite had a proud smile on his face.
He was a young man in his mid-twenties, named Hou Dexing. He was very handsome and handsome, which made Lu Ming feel a little dazed, as if he had met another Li Mingxuan.
Unlike the four northern provinces, in the East China Sea, there are already independent prosecutors and a Grand Procuratorate directly under the municipal committee.
Prosecutors are used to directly prosecute criminal cases. Of course, sometimes when encountering important cases, the prosecutors department will also hire powerful independent lawyers to represent the prosecution.
Prosecutors do not have grade points, and the Supreme Prosecutor's Office has another system for evaluating their work ability.
When it comes to cases involving prosecutors, defense lawyers will receive 10 assessment points for winning or losing.
However, Hou Dexing has a very high winning rate in the Beiguan Procuratorate Division and is a rising star prosecutor in the Beiguan Procuratorate Division.
He slowly walked to Liu Keyue's witness seat and said, "Mr. Liu Keyue, Miss Deng Hongmei reported to me that you had had private contact with her several times. Is this true? Many people have seen you together. If you lie, what will happen to you?"
You are no good to your father."
Liu Keyue's round face looked very unnatural. She looked in the direction of her father, Liu Laocai, and said, "I, I just hope, well, she is still an employee of our New Era after all. I want to see if she needs help."
of."
"So, you are willing to pay a huge sum of 3,000 yuan just to help her?" Hou Dexing asked calmly.
"Yes, yes..." Liu Keyue nodded hurriedly.
"Didn't your father, the defendant Liu Gaoyu, instruct you to do this?"
"No, it's really not!" Liu Keyue looked at the jury, "It's really not what my father asked me to do..."
Lu Ming looked at his behavior, leaned back slightly, looked at him carefully, and then turned to look at the hot weather beside him.
"Your father didn't ask you to do it. So, you think Ms. Deng Hongmei is very pitiful, so you sent a huge sum of 3,000 yuan? Then can I think that you feel that what Deng Hongmei said is true, and you are pitiful?"
She wanted to make up for your father's fault, and you think she was violated, right? Only in this way can you explain your behavior."
Hou Dexing's voice was stern, and he asked one question after another like pouring beans out of a bamboo tube. Lu Ming stood up suddenly.
"Objection! Object to the prosecution's imaginary questions!"
“Object to the prosecution asking multiple questions at the same time!”
"be opposed to!"
Hou Dexing ignored Lu Ming's series of objections and ignored Li Guan's repeated "objection is valid" voice.
Staring at Liu Keyue, "You do think she is a victim, right?"
Then he turned around and bowed slightly to Mr. Li, "Your honor, I'm done asking!" He returned to the plaintiff's table and smiled provocatively at Lu Ming.
Liu Keyue's face was pale and she almost collapsed on the witness stand. She just looked at her father in fear.
Liu Laocai's face was ashen as he watched the jury in an uproar, whispering among themselves.
He knew he was going to be finished.
This son of mine simply succeeds more than fails.
Is there anything more convincing to the jury that it has discovered the truth than the accusations made by the son's subconscious mind?
The suspect's sons all believe that the other person is the victim and go to make amends. So, can the suspect still be unjustly accused?
In the courtroom, everyone's eyes were turned to Lu Ming, the defendant's newly hired chief defender. I heard that he was a rookie lawyer, but Liu Laocai was not an ordinary person. This young lawyer seemed to have something special about him.
Lu Ming frowned and thought about something.
"Defendant's lawyer! It's your turn!" Li Guan looked at Lu Ming with an unfriendly look.
Female judges, even this weird old lady, hate crimes such as sexual assault the most.
Lu Ming stood up slowly. At this moment, the door of the court was pushed open, and Pan Mila, wearing a black professional skirt, with busty breasts and perky buttocks and proud curves, walked in. Her long black stockings and beautiful legs immediately attracted everyone's attention.
The gaze of most men.
She came to Lu Ming's side and handed a piece of paper to Lu Ming. Lu Ming looked at it, stuffed it into his pocket, looked at Liu Keyue, then looked back at Deputy Defender Gao Tiantian, with a mysterious smile on his face.
Pan Mila walked to the auditorium and sat down, but many men still looked at her secretly.
Lu Ming slowly walked up to Liu Keyue, "Your father did not instruct you to hand over the 3,000 yuan check to Ms. Deng Hongmei, right?"
"Yes!" It was his friendly lawyer. Liu Keyue recovered a little and hurriedly answered.
"Furthermore, because your authority to write checks is only 2,000 yuan at most, you can only spend 1,500 yuan in two installments. In this way, you can hide it from your father, right?"
"Yes!" Liu Keyue nodded again.
"Ms. Deng Hongmei didn't accept this money, right?"
"Yes!"
"So, where has this money gone now? Is it still in your account?" Lu Ming asked casually.
"..., here!" Liu Keyue nodded hurriedly.
"How is your relationship with lawyer Gao Tiantian, the one sitting at the defense table, your father's current second defender, and your father's former defense attorney?" Lu Ming pointed at Gao Ming.
Gao Gaotian frowned, leaned forward, and stared at Lu Ming, his eyes alert.
"It's okay..." Liu Keyue looked at Lu Ming with some confusion.
"Have you known each other before?" Lu Ming asked.
Hou Dexing, who was sitting in the prosecutor's seat, frowned and was about to stand up when Li Guan said, "Defense lawyer, you don't have much time. Get to the point quickly."
"Have you and Lawyer Gao Gaotian known each other before?" Lu Ming continued the original question and said to Li Guan: "Your honor, this question of mine is very important."
Liu Laocai looked at this scene suspiciously, then turned to look at Gao Tiantian. He and Gao Tiantian were sitting together behind a long table. This long wooden table was the defendant's dock.
On a hot day, he was the deputy debater, and there was an empty chair across from Liu Laocai. The empty chair was the seat of the main debater, Lu Ming.
Gao Gaotian stared at Lu Ming's every move, his brows furrowed even more tightly.
"I don't know..." Liu Keyue hesitated before answering cautiously.
"Oh, you didn't know each other before... Then, it's not you who pays the legal fees for your father to hire lawyer Gao Tiantian, right?"
"Yes, I didn't pay..." Looking at Lu Ming's clear eyes, Liu Keyue's expression suddenly changed.
"So, my clerk found out that you made several payments to lawyer Gao Tiantian's account. Why?!" Lu Ming took out the piece of paper in his pocket and waved it in front of Liu Keyue. On the piece of paper was a Western
text, and some numbers.
Liu Keyue immediately turned pale and looked towards the hot weather as if asking for help.
Gao Gaotian suddenly stood up early, "Lu Ming, what do you mean? Don't talk nonsense. He entrusted me with a case, which involves the privacy regulations of the parties involved. And, what does it have to do with this case?"
Liu Keyue immediately said anxiously: "Yes, I want to ask lawyer Gao Gaotian to file a lawsuit for me."
"So, what kind of lawsuit is this? The prepayment is several thousand yuan?" Lu Ming was still so calm.
Liu Keyue was stagnant, his face was pale, his small eyes were spinning, and he looked like he was thinking hard, but it seemed that he couldn't think of any answer at the moment.
"I said, it has nothing to do with this case, it also involves the confidentiality agreement between me and Mr. Liu Keyue!" Gao Gaotian said loudly.
Pan Mila, who was sitting in the auditorium, looked helplessly at the scene in front of her.
It was just a printed piece of paper with messy content, which made the court go crazy.
He glanced at Lu Ming again. His slightly thin body was so confident and majestic when standing in the court, as if he would never be defeated, giving people a particularly solid feeling.
She vaguely guessed what Lu Ming was doing, because she was by Lu Ming's side from the beginning to the end of this case.
At this time, Lu Ming glanced at Gao Tiantian, then at Liu Keyue, and thought, as expected, Western assistants are good.
They all thought that the piece of paper was the transfer record printed by the bank.
Western affairs officers are naturally sociable and have good hands and eyes. It is not difficult to print out transfer records from the bank.
Liu Keyue didn't know a few Western texts, and couldn't keep calm. He panicked when he was frightened.
This guy is just like me. Although he seems to be well-educated, he is not interested in learning Western languages. In the areas where people from Central China gather, most of the time, Western languages are not used because the empire belongs to the Federation and there are four official languages.
kind.
On the other hand, some traditional Western aristocratic families living in the indigenous areas are proficient in the local linguistics of the four official languages. For example, some traditional aristocratic families living in the East China Sea have an absolute majority of the population in Central Continent, so Chinese is a compulsory course.
Pan Miela is very good at Chinese.
On the contrary, the newly aristocratic families in the indigenous areas or many ordinary Westerners are usually very arrogant and never want to learn other languages. If you want to communicate with them, you must understand Western literature to be qualified. As for the core area of the empire, it is the real gathering area of Westerners in the southwest.
, let alone other languages.
Therefore, in order to enter the true upper class of the empire, it is impossible to understand Western languages.
As an aspiring lawyer and professional, Gao Gaotian thought Western writing was good, but the distance was too far and he couldn't see clearly what was in the paper. Seeing Liu Keyue so panicked, he thought Liu Keyue saw an accurate transfer record.
Therefore, it was assumed that Liu Keyue's transfer to him had been exposed.
It can only be said that accepting a certain lawsuit entrusted by Liu Keyue can be regarded as an admission that he has received remittances from Liu Keyue.
In this way, his deception succeeded in achieving his goal.
However, if you have enough connections, it is better to have real evidence, and you don't have to deceive Liu Keyue by vaguely saying "thousands of dollars".
To be a lawyer, you really need to make a lot of friends and do some research, so that you can get twice the result with half the effort.
But I was just starting out here, so there was nothing I could do about it.
Even just a dozen days ago, I wanted to be an ostrich, but I didn't expect that with two cases in succession, I was afraid that I would become famous in the Beiguan lawyer circle.
Fortunately, it is only a small circle of lawyers at most, and it is still a small satellite town like Beiguan.
"Okay, I take back my question." Lu Ming smiled at the extremely angry Gao Tiantian.
Then he looked at Liu Keyue: "Mr. Liu Keyue, if my client Liu Gaoyu is convicted, will you take over the position of chairman of the board of directors of New Era Company?"
I had just snorted in the hot weather and just sat down, but then I stood up again.
But before he could speak, Hou Dexing, the prosecutor at the prosecution bench, suddenly stood up and said, "Objection, your honor, the defense is starting to tell a story!"
Originally, Hou Dexing's face was full of sarcasm, thinking that this rookie lawyer was confused and didn't know what he wanted to do.
But now, I finally understand the other party's intention, and he is actually preparing to fabricate a story about the suspect's son and the suspect's defense lawyer conspiring to frame the suspect.
The story of the thirty-year-old prince who couldn't hold himself back and wanted to seize his legitimate son and frame his father is a familiar story in Lu Ming's world. In this world, even if there are similar stories, they are dark legends rather than popular literary works.
"The objection is valid!" Li Guan waved his hand.
"Your Honor, I have no problem!" Lu Ming bowed slightly.
Liu Keyue did not need to actually answer these questions. It only needed that the jury had questions in their minds.
At this time, as expected, the jurors looked at Liu Keyue and Gao Tiantian and were all whispering to each other.
Hou Dexing frowned and watched this scene.
Liu Keyue took out her handkerchief, wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and walked down the witness stand. She looked at her father who was ashen-faced, lowered her head and walked quickly out of the court.
"In court, I request to summon witness No. 1, Ms. Deng Hongmei!" Lu Ming bowed slightly to Li Guan.
Deng Hongmei is sitting in the prosecutor's seat as the plaintiff. She is a young woman in her early twenties. She is wearing a light blue dress and looks very pretty. A faint beauty mark on her snow-white cheek adds a bit of charm to her.
However, at this moment, she was like a frightened rabbit, sitting on the witness stand, lowering her head and saying nothing.
"In court, I hope that Ms. Deng Hongmei will appear in court for the last time to testify. She has been under great mental pressure. I hope the court will be considerate!" Hou Dexing spoke righteously, and the solemn royal prosecutor badge on the prosecutor's uniform made him even more moved.
appear convincing.
"I believe that today should be the last time that Ms. Deng is asked to appear in court to testify!" Lu Ming gestured slightly to the judge's bench.
Li Guan nodded, "Ms. Deng Hongmei, please enter the witness box to testify."
Deng Hongmei slowly walked onto the witness stand, looking like a frightened little rabbit, which immediately made people feel sympathetic.
Walking up to Deng Hongmei, Lu Ming sighed softly, "Patients with diabetes suffer a lot, right?" Diabetes, the scientific name for diabetes, is the common name for diabetes among the people.
Deng Hongmei immediately raised her head in panic and looked at Lu Ming in disbelief.
Lu Ming shook his head, "Tolbutamide is not a panacea. Although it is claimed to be the first synthetic sulfonylurea hypoglycemic drug, the medical community cheered, thinking that diabetes, or diabetes, will finally become history, but in fact
, Diabetes is difficult to cure, and soon the medical community will be wailing! I think you already understand this."
Deng Hongmei's body gradually began to tremble, and she said in a trembling voice: "Really? Lawyer Lu?"
"Yes." Lu Ming nodded to Deng Hongmei and said, "I understand what you did. I hope you can understand what you are doing!"
Looking at Deng Hongmei, Lu Ming showed a trace of pity in his eyes and turned to look at Mr. Li, "In court, I have no problem!"
Everyone is inexplicable.
Deng Hongmei looked at Lu Ming in disbelief.
Li Guan also stared at Lu Ming in surprise, then looked at the wall clock, picked up the gavel and knocked it down, "Adjourn the trial! If both parties have no new evidence to provide, the prosecution and defense will make closing arguments tomorrow!"
