The law cannot make an act criminal which is essentially moral or pure, any more than it can make a criminal act pure. - Shelley
The case has been solved, the criminal suspect has been tried accordingly, and justice has been given to the victim and his family. Logically speaking, Xu Lang and the others, as the main criminal investigators, should be happy. However, whether it is the CSY team Neither the members of the Criminal Investigation Team nor the Second Criminal Investigation Team could really feel happy. Although there were not many deaths in this series of cases, only five. Of course, as policemen, Xu Lang and the others naturally did not want to see more deaths. Many people died, but compared with many cases they investigated in the past, the number of dead in this series of cases was indeed very small. Except for Zhang Jinzhong, Sun Qihang and Qian Shengnan, the remaining Shen Kaiwen and Luo Quan, one One chose to commit suicide, and the other resisted when facing arrest, and was finally shot to death by Lai Pi.
Is Zhang Jinzhong a good person? The answer is no. Judging from his personal resume, he cannot be called a good person at all, but he cannot be called a bad person either, whether he is helping those rich people fight lawsuits or collecting fees Regardless of the high fees, from the perspective of a professional lawyer, Zhang Jinzhong’s professional ability is very strong, and his defense ability is not bad. This is evident from the fact that so many people come to him to help defend and litigate. However, Zhang Jinzhong Is he a good lawyer? Not necessarily. He is just a lawyer with strong professional ability, but he is not necessarily a good lawyer. From a professional ethics perspective, Zhang Jinzhong defended the client with all his heart and safeguarded the legitimate rights and interests of the client. He did his duty conscientiously, but while safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of the client, he harmed the legitimate rights and interests of the victim. As can be seen from the Sun Qihang case, from the moral high ground, Zhang Jinzhong is a complete bad guy. , he can sell his beliefs, sell his conscience, and sell his moral bottom line for money. Every time he stands in the seat of the defendant's defense lawyer, he has to bear a lot of pressure. These pressures come from The plaintiffs come from the victims and their families, as well as from society and, of course, public officials from the public prosecutors and the law.
Zhang Jinzhong knew very well what he would face if he did this, but for the sake of fame and fortune, he was willing to pay these invisible prices.
Yes, Zhang Jinzhong has been working as a lawyer for many years and has won and lost a lot of lawsuits. However, he has not received any less money or remuneration. However, in the end, what is left for him? What? Apart from being busy at the law firm, checking files, and meeting with the clients and victims every day, he is actually very lonely. He lives in a mansion and has a large amount of deposits in his bank account. However, he has no one who knows him. Friend, without the company of his wife and relatives, he will always be a lonely person.
Xu Lang didn't know what Zhang Jinzhong's last thought was when he was dying. No one knew whether he ever regretted his choice to do so. But after he was killed, his ex-wife refused to return to China to handle his funeral affairs. And his relatives also refused to deal with his funeral. On the Internet and in life, many people who Zhang Jinzhong helped, as well as people who he had harmed invisibly, either chose to stand aside or watch indifferently after Zhang Jinzhong's death. Either they are relieved, or they are scolding and cursing, feeling that people like Zhang Jinzhong should have died long ago. As Li Zhaojing once said, Zhang Jinzhong is actually more hateful than those vicious murderers. Those criminals at least still see blood when they kill, but Zhang Jinzhong It was a murder without blood, and it seemed to be very legal and compliant. As for those colleagues who were engaged in the legal profession like Zhang Jinzhong, after seeing Zhang Jinzhong's ending, they all collectively chose to remain silent, and no one stood up to defend him.
In the legal industry, he is not the only lawyer like Zhang Jinzhong. There are many lawyers who choose to do this. However, they have not been exposed. Xu Lang believes that Zhang Jinzhong is not the first lawyer to choose to do this, and he is certainly not the first one. The last lawyer who chose to do this, Xu Lang just hoped that Zhang Jinzhong's fellow lawyers would be alert after seeing Zhang Jinzhong's ending.
Shen Kaiwen, who is also a lawyer, has chosen a completely different path from Zhang Jinzhong. He has been practicing law for more than ten years and has fought in many lawsuits. From the investigation of his files, it can be clearly seen that during these years, , Shen Kaiwen has helped many disadvantaged groups and those who cannot afford lawyers to help defend themselves. He travels around to help these victims fight for and safeguard their legal rights. It can be said that Shen Kaiwen is a good person, at least he He is a conscientious lawyer. However, when he embarked on the road of crime, when he chose to set himself on fire in front of the court in full view of the public, many people chose to watch indifferently. As for the people he had helped Many people did not come to visit him after the case was over, including when his funeral was held. There were still very few people who came. Except for some people who had been helped by Shen Kaiwen, only his wife and relatives That's all.
Shen Kaiwen spoke out for the victims and the vulnerable groups, and upheld fairness and justice. As a lawyer, Shen Kaiwen was right and did a good job in this regard. At the same time, it is worthy of encouragement and promotion. However, , when he changes from a guardian of the law to a destroyer of the law, his destructive power is far more serious than that of someone like Zhang Jinzhong.
People often say that when a good person ceases to be a good person and becomes a bad person, there must be something wrong with this society. The road to crime is broad and flat, while the road to justice is narrow and rugged. Crime is very easy. It seems that everyone Anyone can transform into a criminal, and the road to justice is full of thorns and bumps. However, most people still choose the latter, or choose to stand in the middle. They do not commit crimes or uphold justice. They just Choosing to be ordinary, we cannot ask everyone to stand up when faced with crime, but at least we cannot choose to encourage the growth of crime. Xu Lang feels that when a person chooses to commit a crime, no matter the reason for his crime, What is his motivation? He always commits crimes again. If there are no seeds of sin in his heart, how can he embark on the path of crime?
Perhaps, in his many years in the legal profession, Shen Kaiwen has seen too many injustices, experienced too much helplessness, and witnessed too many joys and sorrows. He began to doubt his former beliefs and felt that justice and law could not punish those criminals. , Therefore, he chose to punish these people as a punisher. He regarded himself as the spokesperson of the law, but the fact is that the law is the law, and no one can or has the right to represent it. The law is the punisher. , at the same time, it is also a guardian. It punishes criminals who disrupt the peace and protects most of us.
Admittedly, Xu Lang had to admit that there were injustices of one kind or another in society, and countless tragedies were staged every day. If everyone was like Shen Kaiwen and chose to punish evil by themselves, So what else do we need to do with the law? What do we need with government agencies? If everyone becomes a punisher, then who is the one being punished? And who is going to punish the punisher?
Sun Qihang's background is indeed good. At least, his starting point is much higher than most people. If we say that his first crime was because he was young and frivolous, lacked knowledge of the law, and his parents' tutoring
If it was caused by bad intentions, then after he was released from prison, he did not choose to change his mind, but chose to commit crimes in the most extreme way. This was not caused by these reasons. Businessmen are right to pursue profits, but they should choose formal means. If
If every businessman is like Sun Qihang and his son, then how many businessmen will die every day?
It has to be said that a college student from a well-off family and studying abroad uses the most cruel way to obtain profits. This has to be said to be sad, deeply sad.
Sun Shihao, from a businessman's point of view, started from scratch and developed the company to its current scale. He is a very successful businessman, and after he got rich, he did not go out to live and drink, nor did he squander wantonly, nor did he have too many misdeeds.
, he is undoubtedly successful. He even wants to kick out those shareholders one by one to remove obstacles for his son to inherit the family business in the future.
Stupid, even beyond comparison. If he could have firmly opposed Sun Qihang's proposal to kill six people, including Zhang Shangshu, instead of conniving or even personally participating in it, perhaps Sun Qihang would not have died, nor would Qian Shengnan.
He will die. At least, Qian Shengnan's death is directly related to him.
Sun Shihao escaped death for the second time. After he woke up, he figured it all out and felt that he was wrong. He should not only see the benefits in his eyes and ignore the people around him. He felt regretful and guilty, but,
His son Sun Qihang is dead, his wife Qian Shengnan was also killed, and he is also facing severe punishment from the law. He has worked hard all his life, but what is left in the end? Nothing is left.
As for Qian Shengnan, she is a good wife. When her husband was in the most difficult time, she always accompanied Sun Shihao and worked with her to build the company. At the same time, she was also a good mother.
She loved Sun Qihang very much and gave her the greatest motherly love. In addition, she was also a good manager and helped her husband and son run the company in an orderly manner. However, after she learned about her husband and son's murder plan, she
She did not choose to stop or expose all this, but chose to hide it and turn a blind eye. Maybe, from her perspective, she was not wrong in doing so, but has she ever thought about the decisions made by her husband and son?
, what about the broken families? What about their wives and children?
If Qian Shengnan had stood up earlier to stop all this, maybe their family would not be in this situation now. If Qian Shengnan had exposed all this earlier, maybe she would not have died, and neither would her son. Sun Shihao
He won't go to jail, however, all this is just what if.
Luo Quan, as an orphan, was sponsored by Lu Jianwei to go to college, and he was full of gratitude and gratitude to Lu Jianwei. He was not wrong, but between personal emotions and crime, he chose the latter, perhaps just like Li Zhaojing
It is said that Luo Quan is a very emotional person and a very simple person. However, he hurt many people and himself, and finally ended up with the fate of death.
Wang Wenruo, his various experiences are worthy of regret and sympathy. However, after he was released from prison, he did not think about starting a new life. Instead, he chose crime and revenge. If killing can solve all problems, then , after he killed Sun Qihang, can his fiancée Li Jingqi be resurrected?
?Can his wife Li Jingwen survive? Obviously not. If he can't, what's the point of all he does?
Among these people, it seems that everyone had sufficient reasons and motives when they committed crimes. However, what did they change? What did they gain? Maybe they got psychological comfort, maybe They got spiritual satisfaction, but when they calmed down, did they really get what they wanted?
Among these people, most of them have become chess pieces, tools in Li Zhaojing's hands, tools of revenge. Wang Wenruo is Shen Kaiwen's chess piece, and Shen Kaiwen is Li Zhaojing's chess piece, but Li Zhaojing is Zhang Zhang's chess piece. Min Hao and Sun Wenyao were the chess pieces, and Sun Wenyao and the others were the chess pieces of Master Chang. It seemed that all they did was just to make wedding clothes for them.
does it worth?
Perhaps, in Wang Wenruo's own eyes, everything they did was worth it, but was it really worth it? Maybe they themselves didn't know.
Li Zhaojing's experience is similar to that of Wang Wenruo. She was once a woman worthy of sympathy and pity. In an accidental car accident, she lost her parents, her boyfriend, and her beautiful appearance. Before she embarked on a criminal path, At that time, she was worthy of sympathy, but when she embarked on the road of crime, she was so hateful, even more hateful than the scars on her face.
She killed Ji Xueling, killed Zhang Jinzhong, changed Luo Quan, also changed Shen Kaiwen, and also took revenge on Tan Yanxue, but who did she really take revenge on in the end? Besides herself and those victims, she No one took revenge, and what was the difference between the harm caused by everything she did and the harm Tan Yanxue caused her back then?
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After the trial, Xu Lang met Li Zhaojing in the women's prison. She was wearing prison uniform, sitting opposite Xu Lang, with calm eyes, and had the last conversation with Xu Lang.
"Do you regret it?" Xu Lang asked.
Li Zhaojing thought for a while, nodded and said, "I regret it."
Indeed, during the trial, when Li Zhaojing saw Tan Yanxue sitting in the courtroom, her face changed beyond recognition, when she saw Shen Kaiwen's wife Zhou Xiaoru's hateful eyes, when she saw Ji Xueling's parents sobbing, she felt so Only then did she realize how many people she had hurt. Until that moment, Li Zhaojing felt deep regret. Especially when she was waiting for the death penalty to be approved, she thought of her mother Wang Yamei, who was still lying unconscious in the hospital bed, and of herself. When she died and what to do, Li Zhaojing really regretted it.
"Is it worth it?" Xu Lang asked again.
Li Zhaojing smiled, her smile a little bitter. She shook her head, looked into Xu Lang's eyes and said, "Now that I've done it, is it too late to talk about whether it's worth it?"
Xu Lang Moran, indeed, it is meaningless to talk about whether it is worth it or not when things have evolved into what they are now.
After a period of suffocating silence, Xu Lang asked again: "How much do you know about the organization 'Master Chang'?"
Li Zhaojing's eyes began to become blurry. She shook her head and said, "My understanding of 'Master Chang' is actually not as much as yours, and I have told you everything I know before."
Xu Lang looked at Li Zhaojing, and Li Zhaojing looked at Xu Lang. They looked at each other for a long time. Xu Lang didn't see any clues in this woman's eyes, so he changed the subject and asked, "Do you know where Sun Wenyao is?"
Li Zhaojing shook her head and said, "I don't know."
Hearing this expected answer, Xu Lang still felt disappointed. Although the recent series of cases have been solved and closed, and the criminal suspects have been arrested and punished accordingly, but
, Sun Wenyao, who was hiding behind the scenes and planning all this, has no trace of his whereabouts. Although Xu Lang and the others spent a lot of effort to find Sun Wenyao after Li Zhaojing opened his mouth to explain the problem.
He disappeared so long ago, how could he possibly be found? This was Xu Lang's regret and a thorn in his heart.
Xu Lang didn't get the answer he wanted from Li Zhaojing, so he planned to leave. Before leaving, Xu Lang subconsciously asked: "If there is anything else I can do, just tell me and I will try my best to help you do it."
Li Zhaojing looked at the man in front of her, thought about it, and opened her mouth. However, when the words came to her mouth, she still shook her head and said: "No more, as long as he and I can be buried together after I die."
Xu Lang nodded and looked at Li Zhaojing for a moment. Seeing that she had nothing to say, he stood up and left.
Looking at Xu Lang's disappearing back, the corners of Li Zhaojing's mouth raised slightly. She smiled, and her smile was very strange. It seemed that she was hiding a big secret, which Xu Lang didn't know.
As for just now, she originally wanted Xu Lang to help take care of her mother, but she thought of something and gave up.
Finally, Li Zhaojing was taken back to the prison cell by the guards, and on the way back, the strange smile on Li Zhaojing's face became even stronger.