He is tall and thin, in his thirties, has a black mole on his face, and has a sinister look on his face, which makes him look very cunning.
Lu Ming sat and looked at the note in his hand.
It was the information from Lao Gui's investigation that Datou had just sent to him.
It said that it turns out that Li Xiaoyan’s husband, Liu Shoucheng, the second shareholder of Mingjia Entertainment, went to the Jincheng Hotel at around four o’clock on the night of the incident.
However, the witness will not appear in court to testify under any circumstances, and the old ghost also promised that the identity of the witness will never be revealed.
Lu Ming frowned and thought.
"Defense?" Seeing Lu Ming not moving for a long time, Cao Guan had no choice but to remind him.
"Yes." Lu Ming stuffed the note into his pocket, stood up slowly, and walked in front of Du Laifu, "Mr. Du Laifu, what is your relationship with the victim, Ms. Li Xiaoyan?"
Du Laifu leaned forward to the microphone and said, "I am her cousin."
"Please introduce it in detail."
Du Laifu looked at Lu Ming with some confusion.
"For example, how did your relationship come about?"
Du Laifu hesitated for a moment and said, "Ms. Li Xiaoyan's mother and my mother are from the same hometown and have been good friends since they were very young."
These questions had been prepared for a long time. Liu Hanhuan asked his assistant to practice with him and told him not to lie. He just thought that he would be asked by the defense on the first day of the trial, but he did not expect that it would drag on until today.
Lu Ming nodded: "In other words, you are not related by blood."
"Yes, but she takes good care of me. Since childhood, I have regarded her as my biological sister."
"Ms. Li Xiaoyan, what kind of person is she?"
Du Laifu gradually relaxed. These questions had almost been rehearsed. "She is kind and kind. She has always been very good to those close to her."
"Jincheng Hotel is a very simple small hotel. Does she often stay there?"
"Yes, actually she doesn't like luxury very much. She said that she is more comfortable in Jincheng Apartment and will think of the time she spent with the neighbors when she was a child." Du Laifu answered with a familiar tone.
"So, she made an appointment with Mr. Li Haoran to go to her room late at night. You will understand that two lonely and pitiful people are often attracted to each other, right?"
Du Laifu was stunned. According to the original rehearsal script, the following question should be asked by the other party whether Li Xiaoyan often brings men to Jincheng Hotel.
His answer should be all kinds of proof that Li Xiaoyan is not a loose woman.
But I didn't expect that the other party would not follow the routine.
"Just because you understand, you don't feel strange about Ms. Li Xiaoyan's abnormal behavior, and you don't think there will be any problems, right?"
Du Laifu looked at the prosecutor's seat and saw Liu Hanhuan frowning and looking unhappy.
"Yes, yes..." Du Laifu answered randomly.
Liu Hanhuan looked very ugly, but he was still tricked. The original answer was that the defense would try its best to attack the victim's character, but he didn't expect that from the very beginning, Lu Qianxing had no intention of attacking Li Xiaoyan's character.
In this way, in the eyes of the jury, Li Xiaoyan gradually turned into a pitiful and kind-hearted abandoned woman who was completely ignored by the heartless man who liked the new and disliked the old.
This guy Lu Qianxing is even more compliant and takes the opportunity to create the character of Li Si, which is equally pitiful and pathetic.
He and Li Xiaoyan became the fallen people in the world.
Crimes such as robbery, attempted rape and murder, etc., seem to be very unreasonable.
Even if I am now shaken in my heart, is it really not Li Si who killed him?
I didn't understand this case in depth. Originally, it was just a formality.
Then Liu Hanhuan was stunned for a moment, why did he have such thoughts? This is not a good sign!
In front of the witness box, the cross-examination continued.
"According to your testimony, you discovered that Li Xiaoyan was killed four hours after Mr. Li Haoran left, at around five o'clock in the morning, right?"
Du Laifu nodded slightly, "Yes!"
"During this period of time, you did not see a third person entering Li Xiaoyan's room again? Is that right?"
"Yes."
"Have you been staring at Ms. Li Xiaoyan's room? Even if Mr. Li Haoran left, according to common sense, Ms. Li Xiaoyan has fallen asleep and rested, but you have still been keeping an eye on Ms. Li Xiaoyan's room?"
Du Laifu shook his head: "No, because I had a few friends that day who stayed in the room opposite Ms. Li Xiaoyan, so I stayed with them there, but they were all too good at smoking, so later they opened the door and window of the room, and the door
It’s never been closed.”
"Yes, I saw your testimony said this. The testimony of several of your friends was that some went to the bedroom to sleep after being drunk, and some left early. Looking at the timeline, starting from 3 o'clock in the morning, only
You yourself, continue to drink in the outside room of the suite, right? The door to the outside room of the suite is open, and where you are sitting is facing the door of Ms. Li Xiaoyan's suite, so you can clearly see people entering and exiting."
"Yes!"
"Then, at 5:11 in the morning, you suddenly found that the door outside Ms. Li Xiaoyan's suite was ajar. You wanted to help her close the door, but you smelled the smell of blood in the bedroom, and then you discovered that Ms. Li Xiaoyan had been murdered."
"Yes."
"At that time, it happened to be windy. Because you left the window and door open, the strong wind blew the door of Ms. Li Xiaoyan's room opposite. Only then did you realize that the door was ajar. Looking at the weather records, it was indeed windy in the early morning. It was very strong.
Strong wind."
"Yes." Du Laifu nodded again.
"How much wine did you drink at that time?" Lu Ming suddenly asked.
"Probably, probably together, there are two kilograms of brandy."
"Why are you drinking alone? After your friends left, you continued to drink by yourself. Is there anything bothering you?"
"No, I usually like to drink." Du Laifu gradually calmed down. It seemed that his answer was okay and he would not be scolded by lawyer Liu Hanxuan. The question had come to an end.
"You like Ms. Li Xiaoyan, right?" Lu Ming suddenly asked.
Du Laifu looked up in shock.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Object to the defense's baseless speculation!" Liu Hanxuan stood up fiercely.
"In court, my question is very important, and it is not without reason." Lu Ming bowed slightly to Cao Guan.
Cao Guan nodded: "The witness needs to answer this question."
"You like Ms. Li Xiaoyan, right?" Staring at Du Laifu.
Du Laifu shook his head, "No, I have always regarded her as my biological sister!"
"Then, how do you explain that you have a tattoo of her country name Xiaohua on the private parts of your body?"
Du Laifu was stunned and never thought that the other party's lawyer would also know such a secret.
Liu Hanhuan frowned and was about to stand up when Du Laifu already said: "Even if I have a tattoo of Xiaohua on my body, it doesn't mean that she is my cousin. The name Xiaohua is very common. I also have a waiter in the store named Xiaohua.
It’s also very beautiful.”
Liu Hanhuan's face softened slightly and he answered well. This guy is not completely brainless.
Lu Ming nodded: "Actually, you drank alcohol that night and opened the door to Ms. Li Xiaoyan's door because you were angry, right? Because what you couldn't get was easily obtained by a cripple."
"I told you, there were many people smoking in the room at that time..."
"But your reason is unreasonable. A woman like your sister brought her lover into the room, but you were in the opposite room, but you left the door open. Your drunken friends could see it when they looked up.
Do you think it is reasonable for your sister to imagine what is going on inside the door of her room?"
"Shouldn't you get over it and close the door tightly? Or take your friends and change rooms?"
Du Laifu hesitated, "I, I drank too much at the time, I didn't think so much..."
Liu Hanhuan frowned. He didn't think of the unreasonableness here, and he never thought it was unreasonable.
Because, judging from the objective facts, it seems very logical. The smell of cigarette smoke is too strong, and there are a few drunken people eating and drinking with the door open. This is normal and often happens.
However, this omission is precisely because it is too objective. If he puts himself in Du Laifu's perspective, in the opposite room, there is a person who is like a biological sister. With a lover, he may be a mess. How could he let the door of his room across the corridor open?
Well, wouldn't it be embarrassing if I heard the sound?
You should even ask your friend to change rooms. After all, he is a hotelier and has this convenience.
The jurors were also discussing quietly.
Lu Ming looked at Du Laifu and suddenly said: "You killed Li Xiaoyan, right?!"
Du Laifu trembled violently and raised his head in shock.
"Because your love has turned into hatred, you have been drinking depressedly. Under the prompting of alcohol, you entered Li Xiaoyan's room to question her! However, Li Xiaoyan has always disdain for your ugly face and just regards you as a human being. Therefore, you are angry and lose
I lost my mind and smashed it with the flying eagle sculpture, once, twice, three times..."
"She finally stopped moving. You woke up, wiped off your fingerprints, went back to your room, woke up your drunk friend, and said you found Li Xiaoyan's body."
"And the ready-made scapegoat is the one you hate most right now, Mr. Li Haoran, who took away the sister you have had a crush on for many years, isn't it?!"
Lu Ming Lianzhujie's question, regardless of Liu Hanxuan standing up, continued to object.
The jury box and auditorium were already in an uproar.
Du Laifu looked pale and kept shaking his head, "It's not me, it's not me..."
Lu Ming nodded: "Actually, you may not have had time to commit the crime, because that night, a distinguished guest came to your hotel, and you went to entertain him, right?"
"Yes, that's right..." After Du Laifu finished speaking, his face immediately turned pale.
Lu Ming looked at him and said word by word in a calm tone: "So, you didn't keep staring at Ms. Li Xiaoyan's room door. During this period, if someone came in or out, you wouldn't know."
Du Laifu's face turned pale and he almost collapsed on the witness stand.
"I have no problem in court!" Lu Ming leaned forward slightly and walked towards his seat. Suddenly he stopped and looked at the jury box: "Actually, the prosecution's most important witness is a dishonest witness.
"
"The prosecutor's most important testimony against my client came from Mr. Du Laifu. In fact, there was no other strong evidence at all."
"The so-called stolen goods found by the police in my client's home are just Ms. Li Xiaoyan's way of venting her anger on life."
"But the police did not investigate in depth at all. There was only one person named my client on their list of suspects. Yes, they only investigated my client!"
"The evidence provided by the police contains too many doubts and cannot form a closed chain of evidence at all. Here, the principle that the benefit of the doubt belongs to the defendant is not required. Rather, the prosecution's judgment of the motive for the murder is wrong."
"The prosecution determined that my client's murder motive was attempted rape and robbery. Based on the available evidence, this is simply wrong."
Lu Ming looked at Cao Guan, "In court, if it is a grand jury hearing now and I request to drop the case, will you agree? Because even if I step back 10,000 steps, even if my client is the murderer, he should not
When he was charged with premeditated murder, the prosecution did not mention that my client’s motive for killing may have been emotional disputes. As long as I prove that the motive for killing determined by the prosecution is wrong, the grand jury hearing will inevitably dismiss the case, right?”
Guan Cao stared at Lu Ming without saying anything, but there was some appreciation in his eyes.
Lu Ming then sighed, "Unfortunately, I did not have this much evidence before the trial, so the case has entered the trial stage. Here, I ask all jurors to declare that I
The client is not guilty!”
"Although he was despicable and not a good person, and took advantage of the victim, Ms. Li Xiaoyan, he did not kill Ms. Li Xiaoyan."
"The real murderer is still at large! Only by finding the real murderer, Ms. Li Xiaoyan, can we find true peace!"
Liu Hanhuan's face was ashen. Is this guy making his closing statement here?
However, at this moment, it is really difficult to refute anything.
"Prosecution, can your psychological expert witness come to court to testify?" Cao Guan asked.
"I need time to prepare!" Liu Hanhuan stood up.
I feel like a psychologist has now come forward to prove that Li Mingxuan is mentally abnormal, which is why he killed someone and wiped his fingerprints off, then went back to sleep.
It doesn't seem to alleviate the current situation in the court. It's better to wait a few more days and the jurors' emotions will be different.
But, can the disadvantage really be reversed?
I was careless for a moment, but by the time I paid attention to it now, it seemed that it was already too late. I was pressed harder and harder by the other party, and the case completely entered into the rhythm of the other party. It would be very difficult to turn around now.
Liu Hanhuan looked at the back of the young lawyer and was confused for a moment.
On the side, Zhang Jingjing noticed the confusion in the master's eyes, and couldn't help being startled. She had a vague feeling that the building was about to collapse.
Guan Cao looked at the time, picked up the gavel, and said, "Adjourn the court! I'll give you one day to prepare new witness statements."