Chapter 38 The light of the sword and the shadow of the sword
In the lounge, Lu Ming was immersed in writing something.
Li Mingxuan finally couldn't help it, "Your strategy may be to eliminate my ability to rob things, but in this way, the victim Li Xiaoyan will be more innocent in the eyes of the jury, not to mention that I beat her to death."
Well, if I just hurt her, wouldn't she become even more hateful?"
Lu Ming raised his head and looked at him: "You are very hateful. Why did she take you by her side for a long time? Because you are lame? Or because you don't take a shower? You know the reason. Sooner or later it will happen.
Yes, but you are greedy for a comfortable life and have a sense of luck. If you ask me, you deserve it even if you are sentenced to death by beheading!"
"You..." Li Mingxuan's face turned green and white, and he stood up suddenly, but then his eyes lit up. Looking at Lu Ming who continued to work hard with his head buried in the pen, Li Mingxuan sat down, lowered his head and began to think.
"Tsinghua, come on, go and do something for me!" Lu Ming waved to Chen Qinghua.
Chen Qinghua perked up and felt that what he had done recently had little to do with this case and did not help his boss at all.
But after taking the piece of paper from Lu Ming and reading what was written on it, he couldn't help but be stunned.
The boss asked him to collect all information on the accidents involving Lingwei cars. If there were victims, he should also meet with the victims' families to learn the details.
"Hold on tight these days, you don't have to follow this case anymore," Lu Ming said.
"Okay..." Although Chen Qinghua was unwilling in every way, he could not go against the boss's wishes.
"Tsinghua, this matter is very important. You must do it well, be meticulous and attentive, you know?" Lu Ming looked at him and emphasized his tone, "This may be about whether you, Brother Lu, and I can stand here!"
In fact, Chen Qinghua should be a few years older than Lu Ming, but the boss calls himself "brother", which naturally means closeness.
Seeing Lu Ming's solemn expression, Chen Qinghua felt immediately relieved and nodded: "Don't worry."
Wang Daan watched this scene with some helplessness. Chen Qinghua at least had something to do. From beginning to end, he was really just a decoration.
At this time, the bailiff knocked on the door gently and said, "Lawyer Lu, it's time to start."
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Li Mingxuan sat on the witness stand again.
Liu Hanhuan walked up to him and said, "Mr. Li Si, are you feeling better now? Can we start?"
Li Mingxuan nodded lightly.
"Mr. Li Si, according to your latest testimony, you hit Ms. Li Xiaoyan on the head with the sculpture that killed Ms. Li Xiaoyan, right?"
"Objection." Lu Ming raised his hand, "When Mr. Li Haoran hit Ms. Li Xiaoyan on the head, this sculpture was not the murder weapon."
Liu Hanhuan spread his hands, "But it was the murder weapon that killed Ms. Li Xiaoyan, wasn't it? Lawyer Lu, if you follow your strict timeline, objective things will become very confusing."
Cao Guan nodded, indicating that the objection was invalid and the witness needed to answer the question.
"Yes." Li Mingxuan pointed at the microphone and said softly.
"You understand and consider Ms. Li Xiaoyan so well, but in the end, you hit Ms. Li Xiaoyan's head with a deadly iron sculpture?" Liu Hanxuan sounded surprised, turned around, and shook his head at the jury.
The jurors also shook their heads and felt sad for poor Ms. Li Xiaoyan.
Li Mingxuan was silent.
"Is there a third person in the room at that time?" Liu Hanhuan asked.
"No."
"When you left, did you see a third person entering Ms. Li Xiaoyan's room?"
"No." Li Mingxuan shook his head again.
"So, you left the seriously injured Ms. Li Xiaoyan alone and left her struggling in extreme pain?"
Liu Hanhuan didn't wait for Li Mingxuan to react, "Besides, you hit Ms. Li Xiaoyan's head many times, right?"
"I didn't!" Li Mingxuan looked up.
"Yes, you didn't. You just knew Ms. Li Xiaoyan so well and sympathized with her experience. In the end, you cruelly hurt her and left her seriously injured back to the rental house that Ms. Li Xiaoyan rented for you.
, admiring those expensive accessories, sighing, ah, Ms. Li Xiaoyan, what a lovely and pitiful person she is!..."
Liu Hanhuan bowed slightly towards the judge's bench and the jury's bench, "I have no problem!"
Leaving a pale-faced Li Mingxuan behind, he turned and walked back to the prosecutor's seat.
Zhang Jingjing looked at her master with admiration. Unexpectedly, in just ten minutes, her master came up with a solution and launched a beautiful counterattack, completely eliminating the defense's advantage.
Lu Ming stood up and walked to the witness stand.
"You know Ms. Li Xiaoyan very well, right?" Lu Ming asked.
"Maybe I understand her a little bit."
"She can be said to be your benefactor, right?"
"Yes, she hired me and allowed me to obtain a temporary residence permit. I was originally living with a bunch of homeless people."
"Does she often ask you to drink with her?"
"Yes."
"As a servant, do you think you are qualified? Because your leg is lame, right?"
Li Mingxuan was silent.
"Why do you think she hired you?"
Li Mingxuan still remained silent.
"Before you were disfigured, did you think that the adjective handsome was suitable?" Lu Ming said, "Please show me Exhibit No. 19 of Category D."
It was a photo of Li Mingxuan following Li Xiaoyan, a paper cutout from a gossip tabloid. In the photo, you can clearly see Li Mingxuan's original appearance.
This paper-cut was sent to Cao Guan and the jury box.
"Using most people's aesthetic standards, you are still very handsome."
"So, as a person who has limited mobility and cannot perform the duties of a servant, do you really not understand the reason why Ms. Li Xiaoyan hired you? Especially, she often gives you expensive gifts?" Lu Ming pressed Li Mingxuan.
"Objection, object to the defense using malicious speculation to stigmatize the victim!" Liu Hanhuan raised his hand.
Lu Ming nodded, "I'll ask my question again."
Looking at Li Mingxuan, "Ms. Li Xiaoyan is a very pitiful woman. You are taking advantage of her loneliness because you don't want to be a tramp anymore, right?"
Li Mingxuan bit his lip and said nothing, his face turning blue and white.
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"Witness, please answer my question!" Lu Ming raised his voice.
"Yes, I was deceiving her!" Li Mingxuan clenched his fists and raised his head suddenly, a little hysterical, "I was just taking a chance and thought it would be fine! Because, because she is a kind woman, I know that she, she doesn't
Will force me!"
"But I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it!" Li Mingxuan shook his head in pain, "I really didn't expect..."
"But, I really didn't kill her, I really didn't kill her... How could I want to kill her?" Li Mingxuan lowered his head and murmured, "I didn't kill her, I didn't kill her..."
Lu Ming sighed softly, "Yes, Ms. Li Xiaoyan did not want to force you, but it was a misunderstanding that caused a small conflict between you..."
Liu Hanhuan raised his hand, "I object to the defense deliberately downplaying the cruelty of the case. Ms. Li Xiaoyan died tragically. This was not a small conflict!"
Lu Ming turned around and said, "I request to summon the prosecution's second witness, forensic officer Liu Kuang."
"Liu Kuang, can you come to court today?" Cao Guan asked calmly.
Liu Kuang went to court yesterday and told the autopsy results, but Lu Ming only asked one question, were there any fingerprints found on the murder weapon?
Liu Kuang answered no.
If the witness is summoned to court again, if the witness is not available today, he will have to make another appointment. After all, it is an impromptu summons.
This is also the reason why many cases are delayed for a long time.
Liu Hanhuan was about to get up and said that the witness was not nearby and further communication was needed. In this way, because several courts may have case hearing arrangements, the next one may be three or four days later, giving him enough time to prepare.
But the main thing is that the tragic image of the suspect created by the opposing lawyer in court will be diluted over time.
More or less, in today's court, I still feel a little bit at a disadvantage, trying to find ways to deal with every move.
This young rookie lawyer named Lu Qianxing has created pressure for himself that he has never experienced in Beiguan legal circles for more than ten years.
It seems that what I am facing are those superior ghost lawyers from the Donghai Region, which is incredible.
Liu Hanxuan was thinking wildly and just stood up to explain that he was unable to contact the witness for the time being.
But at this time, the large wooden door of the courtroom was pushed open, and Liu Kuang hurried in.
Lu Ming immediately smiled and said: "Mr. Liu is here!"
Liu Hanhuan turned around and saw it, his eyes immediately condensed.
"Why are you here?"
When Liu Kuang came over, Liu Hanhuan frowned and asked.
"Didn't your office assistant call me and ask me to come?" Liu Kuang looked surprised.
Liu Hanhuan looked at Lu Ming again, feeling suddenly uneasy.
This shows that this guy has already predicted every step of the lawsuit up to now, and is proceeding according to his plan step by step.
This is a bit scary.
"Prosecutor, are your witnesses ready?" Cao Guan asked again.
"Yes, yes..." Liu Hanhuan pushed the frame on the bridge of his nose helplessly. The witness was already standing in the court, so there was no reason not to let him go up and testify. He couldn't suddenly pretend to be sick. He was a respectable person.
Like, this kind of trick cannot be used until the end of time.
Moreover, Liu Kuang would not agree. He was one of the most authoritative experts in the Beiguan Forensic Office, and he would not let himself be manipulated.
Liu Kuang took the witness stand.
Lu Ming walked up to him, "I saw the autopsy from your forensic office. Ms. Li Xiaoyan's skull was hit hard four times, right?"
"Yes." Liu Kuang nodded.
"No fingerprints were detected from the flying eagle sculpture that was identified as the murder weapon, right?"
"Yes." Liu Kuang nodded again.
"So, why do you think there are no fingerprints?"
Liu Kuang thought for a while and said, "What we forensic doctors talk about is evidence and scientific facts, and we don't make any speculations."
"Okay, then, if I say that the murderer wiped off the fingerprints on the sculpture, do you think it is possible?"
"This is very likely." Liu Kuang nodded again.
"Mr. Liu Kuang, according to what I know, at the initial identification discussion meeting, you had the opinion that the time of the four blows may be very different, especially the heaviest blow, which may be different from the first blow.
Fighting, more than three hours apart? Is that so?"
Liu Kuang's eyes flashed with surprise, but he was very calm. "Actually, with our current identification methods, we cannot accurately infer the specific time interval when the victim's skull was hit. Therefore, after we discussed this opinion,
, was not adopted.”
Lu Ming nodded, "Since current scientific evidence cannot deduce the time interval between the four blows on the victim's skull, that means that based on scientific identification, you cannot rule out the difference between the first blow and the last blow.
Were the blows separated by three hours or more?"
Liu Kuang hesitated.
Liu Hanhuan also frowned immediately.
"Mr. Liu Kuang, please answer my question. You keep saying that you only respect science and evidence. Then, please answer my question. Based on scientific identification and existing evidence, is it not possible to rule out that Ms. Li Xiaoyan's first
Could there be more than three hours between the attack and the last attack? Because of your colleagues, someone raised this possibility."
Liu Kuang thought for a while, "It's not impossible, but..."
Lu Ming quickly interrupted him, "Mr. Liu Kuang, there are no fingerprints on the murder weapon, right?"
"Yes, I just said it." Liu Kuang was a little impatient and wanted to go back to the previous question, "As for the time when the wound was caused..."
"Mr. Liu Kuang, do you think that since the four blows happened almost at the same time, it must be the same person?" Lu Ming asked.
"Yes..." Liu Kuang still wanted to explain.
"But, you also said that there is no scientific evidence to prove the time interval between attacks on the victims in this case..."
"But you insist that the four attacks occurred at very short intervals and were committed by one person."
"Is this your scientific spirit?"
Liu Kuang was stunned and speechless for a moment.
Zhang Jingjing listened blankly. The forensic officer was obviously no match for the rookie lawyer. Not only was he speechless after being interrogated, the rookie lawyer even took the opportunity to cleverly turn the victim's attack into a "four attacks."
"When I heard this kind of rhetoric, I felt as if several people had beaten the victim, and the one who died should have been the last one.
If I hadn't already understood the defense skills of a lawyer, I'd be afraid that he would really lead me into trouble now.
Liu Hanhuan had already stood up, "I object, I hope the defense can give the witness sufficient time to answer questions."
"That is not my obligation. He only needs to answer my questions. If further explanation is needed, Lawyer Liu, you will need to use your cross-examination time."
Liu Hanhuan frowned. This guy is right, but in today's courts, there are very few defense lawyers like this. They simply make the most of all the rules.
Lu Ming turned to look at Liu Kuang, who had a gloomy expression, "Mr. Liu Kuang, the forensic office finally believed that the blows happened at about the same time. It seems that there was a certain degree of discussion and inference about the case, so we came to the conclusion
This is the conclusion, right?”
Liu Kuang had a gloomy face, but his words were extremely careful, "Forensic doctors are also human beings. Of course we will discuss this case, but it will not affect our identification results. We make all conclusions from a scientific perspective."
Lu Ming nodded: "Since you have analyzed this case, then, a murderer brutally killed the victim with four heavy blows, and then wiped the fingerprints off the murder weapon with an unusual clarity of mind, and then...
I returned to my rental house and there was no sign of escaping."
"This man knew very well that many people knew that he entered the victim's room. Even after he killed someone, he was seen leaving when he left."
"He wiped off the fingerprints on the murder weapon in order to conceal the fact that he committed the murder, but he boldly let the witnesses go, let the insider go, and went back to his rental house to sleep peacefully?"
"Is this person schizophrenic?"
Liu Kuang shook his head: "This is not my area of expertise and I will not make any judgments."
"He failed in the rape, robbed and killed, wiped the fingerprints off the murder weapon, and then walked home without hesitation, not caring that he was seen entering and leaving the victim's room..."
Lu Ming turned to look at the jury box and spread his hands, "I think there is only one possibility. He is sleepwalking."
Although it was a very cruel murder, some jurors could not help themselves. They almost laughed out loud and hurriedly lowered their heads to hold back.
Liu Hanhuan stood up and said, "Your honor, I have a psychology expert who can clearly analyze the mental state of the perpetrator. I request that he be summoned to testify in court."
Guan Cao looked at the time and said, "Adjourn the court for half an hour."
Lu Ming turned around and said, "In court, because Witness No. 2 did not show professionalism, there were problems with the evidence chain of the case. Therefore, I would like to ask the prosecution's Witness No. 1 to reappear in court to testify. I have a few questions to ask him.
, he is in the auditorium now."
Witness No. 1 is Du Laifu, the manager of Jincheng Hotel and the victim's cousin. He is the key witness who testified that he saw Li Mingxuan entering the victim's room and leaving Li Xiaoyan's room.
He really likes to join in the fun. Originally, the prosecution had no plan for him to testify in court today, but as long as it is this case, he will come to listen, and he is in the auditorium now.
Cao Guan looked at Liu Hanhuan: "Then your expert witness will appear in court next. Let us first listen to the testimony of witness No. 1."
Looking at Du Laifu, who was sitting at the back of the auditorium, Liu Hanxuan felt very angry. Seeing that he came to every court hearing, he had long wanted to scold him. It was as if his brain was wet. He loved to join in any excitement. He was a witness to the murder.
Case, do you like gossip so much? His head was broken by a door when he was a child. He is simply a weirdo.