In the study, sitting opposite Lu Ming was Liu He, deputy director of the Grand Procuratorate's Office, who was also the leader of this task force. In addition, Wang Xiaohu, a member of the task force, was the director of the Criminal Prosecution Department of the North Black Mountain Fort District Prosecutor's Office of the Grand Procuratorate of the Republic.
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Wang Xiaohu is an old acquaintance of Lu Ming. He was Lu Ming's little follower when he was in the Donghai Prosecutor's Office. He admired Lu Ming very much at that time.
Now he is brought in as an elite talent from the East China Sea and appointed as the head of the criminal prosecution department of the most important regional prosecutor's office in the Republic, that is, the Northern Black Mountain Prosecutor's Office.
The Supreme Prosecutor's Office also has a criminal prosecution center, but it mainly conducts research on criminal prosecution issues and interprets relevant laws and regulations.
The Grand Prosecutor's Office will not directly prosecute cases as the main body. Specific cases are handled by the regional prosecutors' offices.
For example, in the case of Kanjiazhuang, although the deputy director of the Grand Procuratorate served as the leader of the joint task force, if the relevant criminal suspects were to be prosecuted, it was handed over to the North Heishanpu District Prosecutor's Office, specifically the Criminal Department of the North Heishanpu District Prosecutor's Office.
Investigation by the Prosecution Department.
Now when reporting to Lu Ming, it is mainly Wang Xiaohu who is doing the talking.
In this case, Wang Xiaohu led a team to investigate and visit almost all the villagers in Kanjiazhuang. Basically, they believed that the deceased Commissioner Li Fengshun raped the women of the village and shot the woman's husband. But what happened between Kan Xuewu and other villagers and Li Fengshun?
The details are difficult to explain clearly.
There are many possibilities. Perhaps, as Kan Xuewu and others said, the gun went off during the fight with Li Fengshun and Li Fengshun was killed.
However, we do not rule out the possibility that several people may have killed someone by gunfire.
That is to say, the Litigation Department's opinion is that if we continue to conduct in-depth investigations, a few people can only be released first.
Lu Ming listened without saying a word.
After a while, seeing that Liu He didn't seem to have any objections, Lu Ming was a little surprised and asked him: "You agreed to release them, why didn't you charge them with conspiracy to murder?"
Liu He hesitated and said, "I thought so at first, but Minister Xiaohu convinced me. First, what if the truth is really what they said, and they were just grabbing a gun and going off? Then, it would be difficult for them to convict them.
A good lawyer can also call it self-defense; secondly, even if they team up to kill Commissioner Li Fengshun..."
Lu Ming waved his hand, "What commissioner? Although he is dead, his status as the integrity commissioner must be removed, and his pension and the like will naturally be gone."
Liu He nodded lightly and continued: "The second point is that even if they collaborated to murder Li Fengshun, if the entire case is not clear and they encounter a particularly powerful lawyer, such as..." After coughing, Liu He did not dare to continue.
, Wang Xiaohu’s face over there showed a look of yearning.
Lu Ming understood that Xiaohu must have used himself and Liu He as examples.
Over there, Liu He continued: "If you meet a very high-level barrister, then it is very likely that all of them will be acquitted. I personally think that Minister Xiaohu is right. It cannot be because the defense side does not have a lawyer.
Or the lawyer's level is not high, and we handle the case carelessly."
Lu Ming nodded: "Okay, then you continue, I will leave tomorrow and go to Northern Xinjiang."
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After Liu He and Wang Xiaohu said goodbye, Lu Ming was in a good mood. Although it seemed to be an obvious case, the prosecutors were at a loss. Ordinary people would definitely feel that the prosecution was too unfair and it would be easy to let the criminals go. Where is the authority of the state agencies to solve the case?
Where is the efficiency?
But Lu Ming was in a good mood and picked up the file to read.
If the prosecutor charges several people with conspiring to kill Li Fengshun, how will you fight?
In fact, if a jury were set up in Anshan, it would be very difficult to fight, and most of the people would be convicted.
If it were in the East China Sea, where the benefit of the doubt was already deeply rooted in the hearts of the defendants, it would be very likely that several people would be acquitted.
There are some very classic cases similar to this. Several people can blame each other for shooting Li Fengshun.
Coupled with the eloquent lawyers, it is very difficult for the jurors to accurately determine who killed Li Fengshun, so it is difficult to reach a consensus on guilt that everyone agrees with, and in the end it is very likely that several people will be acquitted.
Therefore, in this type of lawsuit involving multiple people, we must try our best to clarify what happened and present it clearly to the jury.
The main purpose is to attack several criminal suspects and disrupt their collusive confessions.
In fact, in this case, if a few villagers could make up their confessions, how flawless they would be.
In particular, the more people collude in confessing, and when several people tell the story of the case separately, it is easier for mistakes to be made in the small details.
With Wang Xiaohu's current interrogation skills, it is easy to break through their psychological defenses.
But so far, I haven't found any flaws in their confessions. From my point of view, I am actually inclined to believe that they were grabbing guns in the chaos and the fire occurred.
Of course, if they were charged with committing murder regardless of the situation, the jury in North Montenegro would definitely find them guilty.
Lu Ming's face gradually became serious. There is no doubt that in lawsuits in Northern Xinjiang, there is also the problem of juror bias.
After all, the ordinary people in northern Xinjiang must regard the Miyuan Horse Bandits as their own army.
Our own troops are burning, killing and looting outside, and maybe they feel relieved in their hearts.
Those atrocities will be whitewashed as acts of war. If I were the lawyer of the Mihara Horse Bandits, I would fight in this direction.
For example, link the resistance of the vigilante groups to the massacre of the people.
The defense was that this kind of militia behavior made it difficult for Ma Quanyou's army to distinguish between civilians and soldiers.
The people in northern Xinjiang will also feel that these are actions of last resort.
In particular, when it comes to prosecuting Ma Quanyou's gang, it is certainly impossible to find out the specific soldier who committed the atrocities. It is Ma Quanyou and his group of officers who are being prosecuted.
Then, for many atrocities, the other party's lawyers can even explain it away as not being ordered by Ma Quanyou and his commanders, but as uncontrollable acts during the war.
Just like in previous lives, if those war criminals who invaded their own country were judged using a jury model and used nationals of their own country as jurors, they would probably all be innocent.
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After thinking about it, Lu Ming picked up a pen and paper and sketched out. If the Donghai lawyer team in his firm did not realize this, this lawsuit would be a disaster.
No need to fight.
Da da da da, there was a gentle knock on the study door, and it was the Kan sisters who came in.
"Sir, Mama Gao has just arrived. She is crying and wants to thank you, saying that Xuewu has been released!"
As the elder sister, Kan Shouxi has always been the spokesperson for the two sisters. The two sisters are two years apart, Kan Shouxi is 20 years old and Kan Shouyi is 18 years old.
It has been less than half a year since I got married to An Laoheng’s thirteenth son, An Minghan.
The two of them got married relatively late, mainly because the Kan family originally wanted to use their sisters to get married, so they got engaged to An Minghan when they were very young. An Minghan just turned sixteen and got married.
Lu Ming smiled after listening to Kan Shouxi's words: "They have only temporarily regained their freedom, and they have to cooperate with the investigation. They also said they are not allowed to leave the Kanjiazhuang area, right? And you two should know that this has nothing to do with me."
Kan Shouxi nodded lightly: "We also told Gao Mama this, but she didn't believe it. She is very grateful to me."
Lu Ming waved his hand, "Let's not discuss this. By the way, your cousin Kan Jiayuan, I think he is a good guy. You can ask him if he is interested in working in the Ministry of Education? I can write a letter of recommendation. Of course, can he get hired?
, it still depends on his talent and learning, and the results of the interview."
Kan Shouxi and Kan Shouyi looked at each other, with joy in their beautiful eyes. Kan Shouxi said: "Yes."
Lu Ming smiled again and said: "It seems that you two sisters are collaborating on writing a novel? Bring it to me later."
The Kan sisters were educated in literature, but neither of them thought that one day they would write novels. They never thought that they would have such freedom and time.
"Are you watching now?" Kan Shouxi asked in a low voice.
In fact, for new writers, there is a sense of shame when the novels they write are read by those close to them.
Lu Ming didn't expect her to agree so happily, so he coughed and said, "Wait until I come back from Northern Xinjiang."
"Okay!" The Kan sisters breathed a sigh of relief.