Crazy, You Call This a Trainee Lawyer

(The last chapter is finally out, so depressed!)

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Speechless all night.

The next day, morning.

Jessica's slender eyelashes trembled slightly, her pink and white arms were raised slightly, and her slender fingers scratched.

"Well, Zhang Wei is already up?"

She opened her eyes, felt the empty touch on her arm, and knew that the person next to her pillow was no longer there.

In the kitchen downstairs, there was the sound of a stove, and someone was making breakfast.

When Jessica was fully dressed and went downstairs, she happened to see the back of Zhang Wei busy in the kitchen.

"Breakfast is ready, I made bacon omelette, and the milk is warmed up for you!"

Looking at the breakfast on the table, Jessica was a little touched.

In her eyes, the man with the apron around his waist had an attractive charm.

The door to the next room was also opened.

"You guys wake up so early~"

Susan yawned and came out.

She also heard the movement in the kitchen, and secretly sighed that Zhang Wei woke up early, he really didn't look like a young man.

Pleasant breakfast time.

Su Mei and Susan could clearly sense that Zhang Wei's attitude was completely different from yesterday.

"Zhang, the omelette and bacon are delicious, I would like to have another order?"

"Of course, you have the final say."

They even saw that Zhang Wei would happily accept Jessica's willful request.

Sure enough, the power of women is great.

It only takes one night to subdue a certain man.

In the eyes of Susan and Su Mei, Zhang Wei's change is naturally due to Jessica.

The imperial husband is good!

"Aunt Mei, Susan, why do you look at me like this?"

"Well, it's nothing, Susan and I just envy you for finding such an outstanding lawyer Zhang!"

"Aunt Mei, don't talk nonsense..."

Seeing Jessica's slightly shy posture, Su Mei and Susan looked at each other with smiles on their lips.

This is the end of the pleasant breakfast.

The four set off to the Taoyuan District Court.

Today happened to be the day of the trial, and it was also the first day of fighting in this case.

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Taoyuan District, District Court.

In the courtroom on the first floor, Zhang Wei and his party were the first to arrive.

"Qiangzi and the others will arrive soon!"

Susan and Su Mei ended a phone call. They just contacted Wang Qiang and other family members, who were already on their way.

Because the court session was at 9:30, there was plenty of time.

Zhang Wei can wait, but his brows still cannot be opened.

After thinking about it all night, he felt that the person who had the problem might not be... Su Mei.

"Although I have investigated Su Mei, she does have a problem, but this problem was investigated by relying on the international relations of Sincere Insurance!"

"Su Bancheng and Haofang Group are not in the insurance industry. Their business is the production and processing of local household products, so there is absolutely no channel for sincere insurance. They should not be able to investigate the problem of Sumei, right?"

At this time, Wang Qiang and others came.

"Hmph, it's finally time, and those people have to pay the price!"

Wang Qiang's voice interrupted Zhang Wei's thinking, and he looked towards the entrance of the court.

It wasn't just Wang Qiang and the other five families who arrived, there were crowds of people outside the door, and many media reporters came.

Zhang Wei keenly discovered that there were still some familiar faces in the media.

"It's Su Bancheng's men, people under Su Bancheng's command!"

Zhang Wei recognized these people. They were the people who followed Su Bancheng during the pre-trial yesterday.

Su Bancheng asked his subordinates to arrange media reporters. What does this mean?

It shows that the other party is full of confidence and feels that he is sure to win!

Otherwise, who would be interested in letting the media report their defeat?

Right after the media, Mr. Wu and Su Bancheng from the Good House Group also arrived.

Today's Su Bancheng is wearing a blue plaid suit, bright red tie, holding a silver cane in his hand, and has a strong aura around him.

"Lawyer Su is serious this time!"

"Nonsense, he even brought out that silver cane, obviously he is serious about it!"

"Who is the opponent who can actually let Lawyer Su carry this 'winning weapon'?"

"I heard her name is Susan. She is a foreign lawyer. I heard from colleagues that she works as a street lawyer in a small town."

"No way, the street lawyer, can you let lawyer Su bring the 'guy' to court?"

The media who knew Su Bancheng knew that he didn't go to court very much anymore, and he was hardly disturbed by small cases.

Even in court, Su Bancheng mostly acts as a consultant and staff officer, and rarely serves as the chief lawyer.

Even if he became the chief lawyer, he usually went to the court empty-handed, and the cane would not be easily used.

But once he uses this cane, which symbolizes power, it means that he decides to use all his strength to defeat his opponent.

Rumor has it that more than ten years ago, he hit his opponent's lawyer with that cane and saw blood on the spot in court.

Although this is a rumor and there is no specific report, the local lawyers in Jinying City will panic when they see Su Bancheng holding a cane.

Fortunately, Susan is not a local lawyer in Jinying City, she hardly ever goes out of Tonghu Town.

Zhang Wei is an outsider and doesn't know these ways.

He didn't know if Su Bancheng would attack him with a cane, he only cared about one thing now.

Who is the problem?

Su Bancheng sat with President Wu on the dock, and looked at Zhang Wei.

"Little devil from the Eastern Capital, today I want to show you that Jinying City is not a place for you to run wild!"

The corners of his mouth raised uncontrollably, there were sneers, sarcasm, and undisguised contempt.

This time, he must rub Zhang Wei's spirit hard, so that this brat understands that provoking him, Su Bancheng, is an extremely stupid act.

He has not used this cane for many years, and today he is going to let this thing "see blood"!

Su Bancheng was elated, which naturally made Susan nervous.

She looked towards the front row of the hearing seat, and after seeing Su Mei and Jessica nodding to her, she knew it.

She took a deep breath and sat beside Zhang Wei.

The plaintiff's seat is in place.

Representatives from Su Bancheng and Haofang Group also took their seats in the dock.

At 9:30, the court session was on time.

"stand up!"

Following the court guard's announcement, the judge entered the arena.

The 6-member jury also began to sit.

Zhang Wei's eyes locked on one of them, the woman who worked as a project manager in a real estate company.

"Susan, your task is to observe her and designate this woman as juror No. 1. Her attitude is the key to this trial!"

Zhang Wei leaned close to Susan's ear and whispered orders.

Although in a civil lawsuit, there are six jurors, the prosecution and the defense need the support of more than five people if they want to win the lawsuit stably.

But an experienced lawyer can catch the person who decides the direction of the jury in the first place.

Just like the woman this time, she has a strong personality, and because of the bonus of the nature of her work, she has a great say in the jury. It can be said that one person can determine the direction of the jury.

Because of this, it is better to deal with the other 5 than to deal with this one. This is the key to this trial.

Susan couldn't see it, but Zhang Wei and Su Bancheng were able to catch it immediately.

But after Zhang Wei gave his orders, his brows were still locked, while Su Bancheng just sneered in his seat.

on the bench.

The judge struck the hammer and announced:

"The trial has begun, now let the plaintiff make an opening statement!"

Seeing the judge calling the plaintiff, Susan straightened her appearance, got up immediately, and walked to the middle of the court.

All eyes were on her, and everyone looked at her in puzzlement.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Wei shook his head slightly.

"Susan, call witnesses..."

He had to remind in a low voice.

You didn't even summon witnesses, so you just wanted to go to the court to make an opening statement?

How do you state that you haven't prepared materials?

Only then did Susan come back to her senses, and quickly said, "Fa, Your Honor, we're summoning the first witness!"

During her subpoena, a middle-aged woman in the hearing stand got up and walked to the witness stand.

She is one of six families in Copper Lake, one of the victims of environmental pollution in this case.

"Aunt Chu, hello!"

"Susan, hello!"

"Aunt Chu, could you please tell us how the environmental pollution caused by the household manufacturing factory under the defendant's name has affected you and your family?"

"Of course, I'm sitting here today to expose their crimes to everyone!"

The woman glared at Su Bancheng, and said angrily: "Because of the pollution in their factory, I got breast cancer. My family spent a lot of savings on the treatment. The money was originally used to buy a house for my son and marry a wife. Now it's all gone." Gone!"

After the woman finished speaking, she looked at Su Bancheng more and more angrily.

"That's it?"

But her testimony, in the eyes of Su Bancheng, is like a child's play.

The woman looks quite old, and the probability of getting breast cancer at this age is not low. If you suspect the factory just for this reason, it is actually untenable.

Not only Su Bancheng saw this, but the jury also thought of this, and the first juror didn't even have a slight expression change.

Perhaps in the eyes of the jury, Auntie Chu's testimony was like a middle-aged woman who found a suitable occasion and wanted to complain.

"Sure enough!"

Zhang Wei also felt this way, but he asked Aunt Chu to appear in court first, and he didn't expect her testimony to be of any help to the trial.

The other party's speech was just to draw out their own environmental testing report, nothing more.

"I know that there may be many people in the court who don't believe the pollution of the factory in Tonghu Town, so I want to ask Auntie Chu again!"

After Susan said aloud, she asked again: "Aunt Chu, why did you conclude that the person who caused your cancer was a factory under the name of the Good House Group?"

"It's because of an environmental monitoring report. That expert was invited from Jinnan City by the big guy!"

Following Aunt Chu's answer, Susan immediately took out the evidence, and handed over a copy of the environmental monitoring report to the defense and the trial bench.

"The document in my hand is the environmental monitoring report provided by experts from Jinnan City. In the report, a carcinogen-trichlorethylene is clearly marked, with a chemical formula of C2HCl3. Trichlorethylene was once used as a township. Pain medicines and metal degreasing agents can also be used as extractants, bactericides and refrigerants, as well as clothes dry-cleaning agents, and long-term exposure can cause trigeminal nerve paralysis and other diseases."

"In the list of carcinogens published by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, trichlorethylene has been included in the list of first-class carcinogens. Not only that, trichlorethylene was included in the list of toxic and harmful water pollutants in last year's International Environmental Protection Conference list!"

As Susan presented these authoritative evidence, the jury was finally moved.

The first juror looked at the report in Susan's hand, thoughtful, and the other jurors couldn't help but nodded.

Although they are not experts in environmental science, they may not understand this report, but this does not prevent them from trusting international institutions.

These institutions, which are very prestigious just by their names, are obviously authoritative.

Seeing this, Susan decided to pursue the victory.

"Aunt Chu, what did that expert tell you?"

The woman pointed to the location of Su Bancheng, and said loudly: "The expert told us that trichlorethylene was detected in the furniture flame retardant in their factory!"

"They are the ones who caused me to have cancer and made our family so miserable!"

Faced with the woman's accusation, the court's wind direction changed immediately.

The jury looked at Su Bancheng with a trace of suspicion and hostility.

The home furnishing factories of large groups, for the sake of production efficiency, use toxic pollutants as flame retardants, regardless of environmental protection. All these are the fault of the Good House Group.

Even the media in the hearing booth became agitated.

Although they were all called by Su Bancheng, it did not prevent them from reporting on the matter.

Just when there was a slight disturbance in the hearing seat, Su Bancheng was still on top.

His performance also surprised Zhang Wei in the plaintiff's seat.

The other party is pretending?

Or is it really a win?

Zhang Wei made a judgment in less than half a second, Su Bancheng is really confident!

"What's going on, why do I feel something is wrong?"

He looked at Susan who was singing with Aunt Chu in the middle of the court.

"There is nothing wrong with this opening statement in my opinion. The only shortcoming may be that the expert witness cannot appear in court in person, so we can only use other witnesses to lead this report... Wait, That expert!"

Zhang Wei suddenly thought that he had never seen that expert before.

He can be sure that there must be someone on his side who has problems.

Take Su Mei for example. She kept saying that she was fine, but Zhang Wei found out about her family's cancer history.

Among the other five families, there may also be problems.

In the same way, there is no guarantee that there will be no problems with this expert he has never met.

As an expert witness, do you really finish testing the data and then leave it alone?

You all know that people in Copper Lake Town want to use your data as evidence to sue the Good House Group, but you left before the trial as an expert witness. Isn't that too irresponsible?

"Could it be that the expert also has a problem, or that Su Bancheng's killing move from the beginning was on this faceless expert?"

Zhang Wei frowned, looked at the dock, and then at the court.

Susan and the woman have finished asking questions.

"Lawyer Su, it's your turn to interrogate!"

Susan returned to Zhang Wei, but Su Bancheng stood up.

"Ahem, everyone, to be honest, I'm very disappointed!"

The first sentence of the latter caught the attention of the audience.

Su Bancheng smiled slightly, and said to everyone in the court: "Why does a report that has no authority at all appear in the holy court?"

Zhang Wei quickly poked Susan who was beside him.

"Objection!" Susan immediately got up and interrupted Su Bancheng.

"Reasons for objection?" The judge glanced at Su Bancheng, then at Susan.

"Zhang Wei, what's the reason?" Susan also panicked and asked for help.

"This is cross-examination time, the defense has to ask questions!"

Zhang Wei was helpless, this objection did not need to express his position, the judge could judge it by himself.

But the other party didn't do that, and even asked Susan extravagantly, obviously showing his favor to Su Bancheng.

"Your Honor, it is time for cross-examination, and the defense needs to ask specific questions!"

The reason was given, and the judge could only nod, "The objection is valid!"

"Hmph!" Su Bancheng had expected it, and looked at the witness stand sarcastically.

"What I just said is based on evidence, and one of them is this report!"

He raised the report in his hand, "Of course I can't see any problems with this report, but there is a big problem with the tester item in the report!"

"My client, the Good House Group, has always attached great importance to environmental protection. They are equipped with a professional testing laboratory, and there are many experts in the laboratory, including many teams from Jinnan City."

"But the inspector of this report is not any relevant expert in Jinnan City. Even the staff of my client's laboratory pointed out that the experts invited by the other party have records of falsification in experimental papers!"

Speaking of this, Su Bancheng held up the document in his hand and said with a sneer: "The plaintiff invited such an expert and gave such an experimental report, which is simply a blasphemy against the holy court!"

As soon as this remark came out, the audience was in an uproar.

The expert witness on the side of Tonghu Town is actually a fake?

"That expert really has a problem!"

Thinking of this, Zhang Wei quickly looked at the jury box.

But what surprised him was that after Su Bancheng revealed the matter, the other jurors were all in an uproar, but the expression of juror No. 1 didn't change much.

"By the way, she just got divorced and she is skeptical of everyone, so it is inevitable that she will be skeptical of Su Bancheng's words!"

It is naturally a good thing for Zhang Wei that the first juror did not immediately fall for the other party.

"Zhang Wei, what should we do?"

Susan also panicked and asked for help.

"Don't worry, we can turn passive into active. The trend of the trial of this case is all concentrated on the only juror. We only need her support, and we can win. Now she hasn't fallen to the opponent, we still have Chance for redemption!"

As Zhang Wei said, he moved close to Susan's ear and asked in a low voice, "Let me ask you, how is your storytelling ability?"

"Huh?" Susan was confused by this question.

On what occasion did you ask me about my ability to tell stories?

"My mother often told me stories when I was young, and Jessica also told me later, I should be okay..."

"That's good. Since they are struggling with the identity of the expert witness, you can tell his motives through the story. Anyway, no one else is here. The credibility of the story depends on you!"

Zhang Wei ordered a few words secretly, and Susan nodded again and again, and began to type a draft in the notebook.

At this moment, whether or not the crisis can be resolved depends on their on-the-spot adaptability.