Blackstone Code

Before the trial, Lynch received a phone call from the professor he had entrusted.

"Mr. Lynch, there is one missing sample in the laboratory. I think I should tell you about it..."

As a professor who can get projects, he knows his laboratory and his money better than anyone else.

No one can deceive him on these issues, otherwise he would have been unable to survive in this circle.

In the morning, when he arrived at the laboratory to verify some data, he discovered that one sample was missing. There were five types of dried tobacco leaves collected from different regions, as well as the corresponding seeds.

He didn't call the police immediately, but called Lynch. You don't know if employers sometimes like the police or the investigation bureau to intervene in their work.

"I'm a little surprised, but that's not a problem, you don't need to panic."

"Just do what you do and don't worry about any impact on me. Is there anything else?"

The last sentence is telling the professor that you should hang up the phone and do whatever you like.

"It's okay then. Goodbye, Mr. Lynch."

After hanging up the phone, Lynch shook his head. In fact, the specific situation of the tobacco leaves was not worth keeping secret. Why did you say that?

Nagaril is so big, as long as Shi Luck and Colorful Company are willing to spend money, they will definitely be able to find someone willing to cooperate with them to grow tobacco leaves there, or provide them with samples there.

This is unpreventable. If you really want to stop the tobacco leaves flowing out of Nagaril, the only way is to launch regional extermination.

If there is no man's land near the place of origin, then whoever goes in will be a thief, otherwise the defense will have no meaning at all.

What's more, some things must be done according to the rules in the Federal Lynch, but outside the Federation, fists are the rules!

There were still ten minutes left before the court. Several local store representatives in Bupen stood anxiously outside the court. They were waiting for their attorneys, but by this moment, none of the attorneys had come.

He didn't even talk to them further before that, and they suspected that something might be wrong-

Of course.

Hiring a barrister is expensive, and hiring a barrister to fight a losing case is even more expensive and almost impossible.

It is impossible for those lawyers to fight a losing case for anyone unless the money is enough, but Shi Luck and Colorful Company will not continue to pay any legal fees for these shop owners, so they have to pay for it themselves.

But the problem now is that they still don't know what happened, and even if they have to pay, they may not be able to spend so much money to hire a barrister.

At the urging of the bailiff, they had to enter the court when the court time came.

After going through the simple process, the judge was a little surprised, "Didn't you hire a lawyer?"

He was very surprised. Not hiring a lawyer in this kind of case was equivalent to a criminal putting his head on the wooden pier and shouting "The executioner is coming to chop off my head."

This is incredible!

The expressions on the faces of several shop owner representatives were also ugly. One of them stood up and said, "Your Honor, our lawyer doesn't come for some reason."

"Have you called him?" the judge asked again.

Several people still nodded, "I called, but no one answered."

The judge was stunned for a moment. Since he started this job, he has never heard of a lawyer who doesn't answer the phone or doesn't keep time. If there is, it means that the lawyer is avoiding these people.

"Have you signed a retainer agreement with your lawyer?", he asked again.

Several shopkeepers shook their heads in confusion. At that time, they just signed an indictment under the persuasion of some salesmen. Then someone said that they would fight the lawsuit for free. They did not know that they had to sign a power of attorney.

Although the federal laws are very complete, not everyone has had contact with the law, and it is not clear that after the perfect law, there will be a more stringent division of responsibilities.

Without a power of attorney, there is no entrustment relationship, and the judge probably already understands why.

He took off his glasses and looked at the lawyer representing Shi Mo Mo. Before he spoke, Shi Mo Mo's lawyer said first, "Your Honor, the time for the court session has passed. Can we continue?" ?”

The judge was robbed and knew the reason. He was silent for a moment and said, "You have seen the current situation. The defendant's lawyer did not come."

The lawyer at every moment then said, "I respect your opinion very much, but your honor, this has nothing to do with me and has nothing to do with this lawsuit. I remember there is an explanation that if a lawyer of one party is not present, , the parties can plead on their behalf.”

This is to prevent some people from being unable to find a lawyer for some reason and end up having to defend themselves.

This is not a hypothesis, this has happened in the history of the Federation, and more than once.

No matter how much money the defendants spend or how much they plead, no lawyer is willing to defend them. They have to face this embarrassing and desperate scene.

Later, because a defendant requested to defend himself because he could not find a lawyer, they were given such an opportunity.

But this opportunity does not play any role. It may be valuable in major cases, because in major cases, especially criminal cases, the jury system is used.

You don't need much professional knowledge to convince the jury. All you need is clear logical thinking and contagious language to make the jury believe what you say.

But in a case where an ordinary judge decides the final direction of the case, without a lawyer and defending yourself, you will undoubtedly jump directly into the abyss.

After the judge was silent for a while, he looked at the shop owner representatives on the other side and asked, "Are you willing to defend yourselves?"

A few people were a little confused, and felt that this might be the last resort, so they nodded.

The judge sighed and put his glasses back on.

The whole process was not long, and the trial ended in less than half an hour. In the end, the shop owners lost the case.

According to the demands made by the Ministry of Justice's Legal Department, each store needs to compensate Shijia for the money spent on the counters. Those counters were only temporarily lent to them, not bought by them, let alone given to them.

They lost these things while they were in their custody and they must be held responsible for that.

Each cabinet costs 1,200 yuan, which is not very expensive.

But the subsequent lawsuit was unacceptable to them, because they believed that these shop owners had caused their market value to evaporate at least 200 million yuan.

And now the market value is rising again every moment, which has nothing to do with these shop owners and this case.

This is like a thief stealing a hundred yuan from a person, and now the person has earned another hundred yuan through his own efforts. This cannot be said to have another hundred yuan, so the thief has no guilt and responsibility for theft. , this doesn’t make sense.

Every moment’s lawyers have proven from many aspects that the current increase in market value of every moment is an increase in value obtained through capital expansion after changes in the group’s business content, and is not directly related to the defendant and this case.

After the judge's mediation and trial, he finally had to support the request of the Ministry of Justice.

The entire trial was video-recorded. If he had sympathized with others, he had made a wrong miscarriage of justice in such a huge case.

If you appeal every moment and ask for punitive damages, it is very likely to lead to a more terrible disaster.

In the end, the judge reduced the amount of the claim to 160 million, and more than 2,110 shop owners will have to bear the cost together!

In fact, it's not a lot to say. If everyone adds up, as long as they can't bear 80,000, 77,700 to 77,800 will be enough.

It is precisely because of this that the judge did not favor anyone further. Compared with the compensation that may later turn into hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, although this money is large, it will not crush their family.

After the results came out, the store owner's representatives stood dumbfounded on the spot. They could not accept the results. The judge also asked them to tell them that protesting and appealing were meaningless and would only make things worse.

The only thing they have to do now is to find a way to find the people who defrauded their counters, and then get the counters back, which can reduce some losses, about one or two thousand yuan.

As for the main claim, hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation, there is basically no way to do it, because it is indeed because they were in tandem without breach of contract at all times and launched large-scale lawsuits that led to these things happening. They must take responsibility for this.

Walking out of the court, a large number of reporters surrounded the lawyers. They excitedly passed the microphone forward. The most expensive "compensation claim" in federal history actually won the case. This will become history!

And as lawsuits begin to be filed in various places, more and more people are paying attention.

Even Lynch has received several heavyweight program interview requests, hoping that he can appear on the program to talk about his views on these issues.

"You don't have to go, Mr. Lynch." Sitting in the office, the head of the company's legal department sat opposite him. "Your appearance at this time may arouse some people's resentment. They naturally hate rich people. You are one of the more famous among the rich."

"No matter what you say or do, they will interpret it against you and all you have to do now is stay silent."

Regarding the suggestion from the head of the legal department, Lynch just thought about it for a while and then shook his head, "My style of doing things is different from others. I am not afraid of any challenges and I don't mind letting others know my thoughts."

"As long as my heart is full of light, people will eventually understand me and identify with me, including all the decisions I make."

"On the contrary, if you refuse to face it, they will pour more sewage on me. I will not accept such a result."

"Every penny I earn comes from my hard work. Their slander against me is the greatest humiliation to my hard work!"

"I want to face them!"