The first thousand two hundred and forty-five chapters The legal thought of the Apostle Hilling
There seems to be no doubt about the trial of the Merova radicals. All those we captured were senior officers of the Merova radicals. It was these people who committed the series of unforgivable crimes.
, when trying them, the only problem faced by the imperial court was that the existing code could not even set a maximum sentencing limit for them.
Ninety percent of the officers among the radical faction committed several felonies, each of which exceeded the sentencing ceiling!
Therefore, at the beginning of the trial, according to common practice, the court's coordinating host made a prejudgment for these Merova officers to apply unlimited penalties. In other words, after analyzing all existing laws and cases, the coordinating host believed that even if
After the trial is over, there will be no second result. This punishment is an extremely special trial conclusion of the Imperial Court, and its other name is "The Fourth District".
This can be said to be a very rare situation. The extreme execution ground in District 4 actually rarely appears in the imperial court's judgments. It is only applicable to those who have been strictly reviewed and determined that any existing punishment is not enough to cope with them.
Extreme criminals who commit crimes, such extreme criminals will not appear in large numbers under normal circumstances. Since the establishment of the Fourth District and the Imperial Court being linked to the Fourth District, there have only been a few hundred such criminals: and this is a sign of the entire macro world.
The number accumulated in a population of 100 million. A normal intelligent creature, if it is mentally sane and the basic moral environment around it is normal, no matter how cruel it is, it will not be easily crazy enough to enter the fourth area, even if it completely gives up
Conscience, an intelligent creature with a brain should also have a minimum psychological limit. Therefore, the space passage leading to the fourth area, nicknamed the "Flea Path", is usually quite deserted, and few new prisoners are sent there.
Go in.
As a result, this time the Imperial Court may have to send a group of people in at once... It can only be said that Barian successfully led a group of villains that shocked even the court host, so much so that I heard that the coordinating host planned to give special treatment to this group of people.
The Merovans opened a database of cases. They took them out of criminology one by one and formed a separate subject...
However, despite the prejudgment, the normal trial process must still proceed. Today is the day for the trial of some senior officers of the radical faction. At my sister's request, I took her to the court.
This court located in the Shadow City is the highest judicial organ of the empire. It is only used to deal with extreme criminal cases submitted by lower courts, as well as direct crimes against the Imperial Military. It is not located in the main city of Shadow City, but in the Shadow City.
"Directly below" the city. We know that the Shadow City is actually an aerial city floating in space. It hovers over the mother star Gaia like an inverted island. All residents of the Shadow City live in this aerial city.
The front, but the back of this sky city is not empty. There are also a small number of imperial facilities scattered here. They are arranged along the ridge of the raised sky island, like a complex of palaces built on the mountain. Most of these facilities are shadows
The city's city maintenance devices, such as energy centers, mathematical stabilizers, and synchronized data transmission arrays with Gaia, and the remaining facilities include some military factories and confidential departments. These buildings are scattered across a large desolate area behind the Shadow City.
Among the hills, there is a sharp contrast with the prosperous capitals of all realms on the other side of the earth.
The Imperial Supreme Court is located in the very center of this dark, desolate land. It is on the highest point of the raised sky island. It is a huge symmetrical cross-shaped building, with the main part being a circular vaulted hall. With this hall as the center
, extending symmetrically to four rectangular corridors. The entire building is made of solid interstellar alloy and glows with a silvery white cold light. There is no decoration on its surface. Viewed from the air, the court looks like a palace nailed to the earth.
Sharp cross.
In front of the entrance of the court, there is a giant holographic projection of Sandora and I. This should be equivalent to the stone lion at the door... Okay, I know this is a bit problematic, but I have always understood it this way. And in the giant projection
Below, a line of large characters was written in imperial script:
Confess everything! Those who enter this door, lying is like lying to the emperor!
"...I still feel like two stone lions..." After silently reading the powerful characters floating in the air, I couldn't help but bring up the association of stone lions again, "I heard Sandora say, the old empire
In the era, there was this rule at the entrance to the Supreme Court of every region. They had to place a statue of the emperor and write this sentence. But now the empire is governed by two emperors at the same time in one ruling area, so it can only be placed on one side of the gate.
Just put one away..."
My sister was a little absent-minded. If it were normal, she would have had a lot to say when she saw the two provocative projections at the door. But now, she just waved her hand and pulled me in.
The trial scene and law enforcement procedures of the Imperial Court may be very different from the courts that many people have in mind.
There are no seats for the jury, and there are no defense attorneys for both sides. The "judge" does not need any defense behavior, and does not accept any subjective third-party accusations. All information collection related to the trial is done by a
Completed by a completely independent team of "collectors". The members of this team are senior agents and information recording experts. They think purely rationally when working. They do not make any evaluation of criminal acts and criminals. Their only job is to collect all relevant information.
The intelligence collected on the Internet is submitted to the court host. The intelligence they collect does not allow for descriptive and rhetorical information. In fact, the intelligence provided by the "collectors" is more like an accurate snapshot of history, describing the time when the crime occurred.
The on-site situation, the actions of all personnel, the incentives for all personnel to act as mentioned above, the results of each relevant individual action... everything is made to contain no rhetorical elements. And this information is submitted to a special trial
Group. The trial group consists of three court hosts, three judges and three recorders. The court host is divided into a coordinating host, a database host and a logical host. The coordinating host is responsible for unifying all information from the collector team and the database host.
, comparison, accurate correction of each piece of information to ensure full compliance with the code. At the same time, the coordinating host will predict the entire case in advance based on its own comparison results. This prediction result is not linked to the final trial, but it will
It was recorded and used to correct the next generation host in the future. Then the coordinating host submitted its comparison results to the logical host. The logical host began to analyze the case according to the Imperial Code. At the same time, the final sentencing was corrected based on the perceptual thinking mode of intelligent creatures, and the database
The host does not participate in any analysis work in the whole process. It is only responsible for accurately submitting the data for analysis, and then saving the data uploaded by the recorders as a case.
In fact, the main judges of the court are these three hosts, and the work of the three judges is more like assisting the work of these hosts. As for the three recorders, they have no right to make any suggestions.
So does this kind of trial guarantee absolute fairness?
No. It just ensures absolute compliance with the laws of the Empire.
Every race has its own worldview, and even every intelligent individual has its own worldview. Under this premise, a universal and absolute fairness does not exist, and the Xiling apostles do not have the time to study an absolute fairness.
The result. The code that applies to the entire empire is actually more like a "final boundary". Within this final boundary, each race can formulate its own laws according to its own moral values and worldview, and can do whatever it wants.
But once you come into contact with the "Final Frontier", the three hosts of the Imperial Court will ignore your race and your thoughts. It will convert everything about you into data, and then compare it with the Imperial Code, just like comparing an
Substandard screws are put into a standard screw hole, and any unqualified parts will be cut off ruthlessly. As a perceptual and intelligent creature, the judge's worldview and moral values play a role in this process.
The only function is to choose whether to cut it in place with one cut or to cut it slowly in twenty cuts, and this selection process has nothing to do with you.
Therefore, the Imperial Court is not so much a legal department as it is a "debugging" factory with Xiling characteristics. In this factory, there is an inconsistency between the "bad parts" being "repaired" and the engineers responsible for "repairing"
Too much communication is required. This is the "judgment" in the impression of Xiling Apostle. As a special creature that is absolutely loyal and will never violate the code under normal circumstances, it is difficult for them to understand why there are intelligent individuals who actively violate the race and the motherland.
Therefore, they regard these criminals as "ill-functioning machines". If the machine is broken, it needs to be repaired. If the machine is broken too badly, it needs to be dismantled, scrapped and thrown into the reactor. For the court host machine,
In other words, they can't see the difference between a general running away on the battlefield and a screw missing a thread. Both need to be "sharpened", but the former will be whittled to death.
So what if something is so broken that it cannot be "repaired" at all, and even if it is thrown into the reactor, it may contaminate the furnace?
That's the so-called uncapped penalty zone four.
It has to be said that such a court is completely different from the judicial organs established by the emotional conventional races, and even challenges many people's worldview, but as just said: it never guarantees that its judgment results are universally applicable.
Any worldview is absolutely fair, but it guarantees that its judgment results are 100% in line with the laws of the empire. This is the unique law-abiding view of the Xiling apostles: be a good part, otherwise it will be recast. They will make everything in the name of the empire
Things: including citizens, are regarded as some kind of parts, and parts should have their own technical parameters. If they do not meet the technical parameters, it is a crime. As for how this part is thought of, when the interests of the empire are guaranteed, there is no
People care about irrelevant things.
However, ordinary races in the empire's ruled areas do not have to worry about being thrown into such a court. I also don't have to worry that such a court will make civilians who are not suitable for the empire's iron-blooded mentality feel uneasy. The reason is very simple: the imperial court does not judge filial piety.
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The law enacted by Apostle Xiling is very interesting. It has no civil law, no economic law, and no contract law. These various legal categories make those people who are single-minded extremely confused. Even Shandora said that she could not understand why these laws were taken for granted.
Things that should be abided by by all the people also need to be enacted to make the people understand what to do. The most items in the Xiling Code are formulated for things like imperial military orders, race survival, and world security that sound like a fortress. They feel that
Only matters such as the life and death of the universe and the continuation of racial development are necessary for legislation. Therefore, ordinary races have almost no chance to go to the Imperial Court. The "final boundary" of the Imperial Code is wider than you think, and crimes within this scope
It still needs ordinary "human justice" to solve it. And those who accidentally touch the "final boundary" and exceed the human justice...
Basically, if you throw it into the Imperial Court, no one will have any objections.
To put it simply, in the empire-controlled area, most conventional races still have to abide by human justice. Those responsible for managing them are still human justice. The imperial code is a conceptual standard that cannot be broken by mortals.
.Considering the Imperial Code as a "house" used to regulate the scope of people's activities, the construction area of this house has reached one million square kilometers... So looking up, the mortal races who marveled at the mountains had to look up.
Find any floor tiles in this unprecedented big house and build your own house...
So sometimes I can't help but think. Maybe the so-called dogma of gods feels the same to mortals: the laws of gods are awe-inspiring and irresistible. However, after you really come into contact with them, you will find that as a mortal,
.Even the illegal gates are difficult to reach. The Merova people should be proud of this. As a mortal race, they have committed almost all of the most severe crimes in the empire: as servants of the empire,
Treason, murder of superiors, theft of imperial property, illegal genocide, and attacks on the imperial royal family. The above crimes are really not something ordinary mortal races can get. Sometimes, when the civilizational gap between the two races reaches a certain level, it really happens.
All kinds of wonderful phenomena that are unimaginable...
My sister and I came to such a court. Naturally, what we saw was a boring scene. Except for the special seats reserved for us, there were no "onlookers" here at all. The oval-shaped trial hall is divided into two ends. One end is the trial
In the position of the first person, the three court hosts are three silver-white cylindrical machines that look almost identical. The crystal panels inlaid on their surfaces are constantly refreshing a large amount of data. These three cylindrical hosts, which are more than ten meters high, are tilted back about
Thirty degrees, half buried in the silver-white alloy wall of the hall, and on the seat in front of the host base, the judge is displaying the next criminal's name on the holographic projection. After a period of comparison processing,
The host and the judge will jointly make a verdict. After that, the offender has time to speak. During this speaking time, you can announce a guilty plea or a protest.
Yes, you can express your objection to the verdict. This is a somewhat unexpected setting. If the person being judged is dissatisfied with the verdict and can provide more information about the case on the spot that is not within the scope of the "collector"
, then his protest is valid. According to the trial logic of the Xiling Apostles, they will add new information to the comparison process, confirm that the information is true, and then re-fine-tune the trial results. However, this is just a theoretical "overturning the verdict" process
, in actual situations, we have never encountered a situation where the court "gatherers" missed information. As for the several Merova officers who are on trial, they have no room for escape.
The judges certainly noticed our arrival, but they did not pause their work. They just nodded in the direction where my sister and I were sitting. The person who was being sentenced now was a senior Merova military officer. His crimes, in addition to those "general items",
For example, in addition to treason and plundering imperial property, it also included personally planning and implementing the extermination of three innocent lower civilizations and doing so out of revenge after those three civilizations announced their surrender.
The court host made a low buzzing sound. The coordinating host was requesting information from the database. The logic host was analyzing the completed data points in an orderly manner. The database host was silent and did not express any opinions on the case. The three judges were connected to the dedicated
Internet, and exchanged some opinions with judges from other courts. After the logic host compiled the analysis conclusions into a document and published it, the three judges quickly evaluated the document to determine the correctness of the document and the accuracy of the comparison process.
Sex, and then they informed the prisoners of the trial results that another guy needed to be sent to the Fourth District. However, his crime was relatively minor compared to other compatriots, so his sentence in the Fourth District was only a few hundred years.
The Merova officer seemed to find it difficult to accept the outcome of the trial, but he did not have the conditions to protest: he had no more testimony that could be collected by the coordinating host. So the officer became restless in front of the trial, like a man dominated by fear.
Ordinary people who have died: even though they once thought they were gods.
At this moment, onee-sama suddenly stood up.
Perhaps because she has been deified, or perhaps for some other reason, her sister, who has always been gentle to others, now has a vague aura of coldness. The Merova officers in front of the trial stand were stunned for a while. They may feel that this
The breath felt a little familiar, and then they all looked up.
"Emperor...Your Majesty..."
One war criminal said in shock that if it weren't for the shackles on the seat, he might have slipped to the ground.
All the restless war criminals also became quiet... It cannot be said to be quiet, but more like they lost the ability to move in the face of huge fear. Other war criminals waiting for trial also fell into the same state of fear, and reappeared in front of them.
The face in front of them took away everyone's courage and sense of resistance. They lowered their heads and did not even dare to raise their eyes to look here. Tens of thousands of years have passed, and it seems that the sense of oppression brought by the emperor is still there today.
Now. I couldn't help but glance at my sister: Tens of thousands of years ago, when my sister was another person, what kind of ruler would she be?
I finally focused my eyes on the court again, looking for Barian among the war criminals. I couldn't find him at first. I thought he was not on the waiting list for this batch, but soon I found him in the corner. This
The once arrogant tyrant hunched over his body and seemed to be trying his best to hide in the shadows where his sister would not notice him. He could be so depressed that I immediately lost interest in continuing to pay attention to him: with Turazzo
In comparison, this is really a complete loser.
"It seems there is nothing to see here. They are already strangers to me," my sister sighed softly, took my hand and left the seat, "Arjun, let's go... wait a few days,