Crazy, You Call This a Trainee Lawyer

(Some readers in the group reported that today’s broken chapters are uncomfortable, the author couldn’t bear it, and decided to update the chapter at 10 o’clock, but it’s only this time, and it won’t be like this next time~)

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"Prosecutor Tan Yingying, please tell me, what is this?"

Zhang Wei held the cardboard in his hand. The one-meter-wide cardboard was like a painting displayed in front of everyone.

In the hearing booth, some people who hadn't recovered from Zhang Weisao's operation subconsciously looked over.

"This is not... this is not ours..."

Beside Guo Wufeng, a prosecutor exclaimed.

In fact, not only he saw it, but the misdemeanor prosecutors including Guo Wufeng all recognized it.

No way, this thing hangs on the wall of their office every day, it is too familiar.

in court.

"This... this is..." Tan Yingying was a little hard to say, so that she couldn't hold back a complete sentence for a long time.

"Prosecutor Tan Yingying, what's going on, don't you all talk about it every day, why can't you call out your name?"

Zhang Wei didn't care how embarrassing the other party was, and continued to ask: "I remember, you seem to call this thing a "scoreboard", is there such a thing? "

"Actually, it's called a scoreboard..." Tan Yingying replied weakly.

Only then did Zhang Wei slap his head: "Oh, so this is called a scoreboard~"

He pointed to a place on the scoreboard and asked again: "Then please tell me, why is there my client's name here?"

"Because it's written on it."

"Written it, why did you write it?"

"Eh..." Tan Yingying didn't know how to answer.

But Zhang Wei showed the scoreboard in his hand to the jury: "Look, everyone, there are many names written here, and there are some marks on the back. There are √, ×, and ★ on the marks."

The jurors all leaned forward, and many began to whisper.

But Zhang Wei returned to the witness stand again: "Prosecutor Tan Yingying, please tell me now, what do these marks represent, and what is the purpose of this scoreboard?"

"I... this... this is some kind of performance incentive chart..."

"Bar?"

Zhang Wei emphasized the last word and winked at Tan Yingying.

"Okay, let's take it as the truth, then I would like to ask, do you misdemeanor department regard my client as some kind of performance evaluation value?"

"Objection!" On the prosecution's seat, Xiao Baihe stood up.

"What are you objecting to? Is the question I asked wrong?" But Zhang Wei didn't care at all, and asked Xiao Baihe instead.

"Prosecutor Xiao, I should have warned you, if you do this again, I will sentence you to contempt of court!"

At the trial seat, the judge couldn't sit still anymore, and gave Xiao Baihe a verbal warning.

Xiao Baihe could only sit down unwillingly, but looked at Zhang Wei, wishing to eat him alive.

"Witness, please answer the question!"

After being called by the judge, Tan Yingying looked towards the hearing booth, but Zhang Wei stood in front of her first, blocking Tan Yingying's eyes from asking Guo Wufeng's plan.

"Witness, Your Excellency the judge also said, please answer the question!"

"Do I need to ask again, is your misdemeanor department treating my client as some kind of performance appraisal value?"

Facing Zhang Wei's pressing questions, Tan Yingying could only answer like a mosquito: "No, that's not the case..."

"That's not it, what is that? This chart is just a decoration?"

Zhang Wei laughed, and then his tone turned cold: "Witness, the seat below your buttocks is not for ordinary people. It is a sacred witness stand. I shouldn't need to remind you of the consequences of false testimony, right?"

"If you say no, let me ask you, has your supervisor, Guo Wufeng, ever said this..."

Zhang Wei tried to make himself serious, with a sullen face, making a roar, and shouted: "Who are we? We are the local prosecutor's headquarters in Dongfangdu. We are absolutely invincible!"

"If our Misdemeanor Division loses to a newcomer lawyer, where do you want me to put Guo Wufeng's face? How can you let me hang out at the local prosecutor's headquarters in the Eastern Capital?"

As soon as this remark came out, Guo Wufeng in the hearing seat couldn't sit still.

Good guy, this kid surnamed Zhang actually eavesdropped outside the door that day.

In fact, it wasn't Zhang Wei who eavesdropped, but Guo Wufeng's voice was so loud that he could hear it even standing on the stairs.

After Zhang Wei imitated Guo Wufeng, he continued to ask: "Has your supervisor said these words?"

"Yes, there should be..."

"Then why do I feel that this scoreboard, as well as my client, have become some kind of performance appraisal value that can be quantified?"

Zhang Wei looked at Tan Yingying, saw that the other party was silent, but he pointed to the hearing booth and said, "Don't deny it, it happens that your supervisor Guo Wufeng is also in court, if you think you can tell a lie, believe it or not, I will let him come up too? "

This move is ruthless enough!

Guo Wufeng was about to explode, but after hearing these words, his face couldn't hold back completely, and it twisted into a chrysanthemum.

The prosecutors behind him looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing what to say for a while.

And the lawyers in the next seat all started whispering to each other.

Regardless of what other people think, Zhang Wei in the court continued to press: "Now, answer my question, Prosecutor Tan Yingying, has my client become your performance quantification value?"

Zhang Wei approached step by step, and at the same time his tone became colder: "Please answer yes or no, just to remind you, this is the third time I have asked this question!"

Facing his aggressiveness, Tan Yingying finally couldn't bear it anymore, the corners of her eyes were flushed, she held back for a long time before saying: "Yes, yes!"

"Oh~ yes, you actually regard my client as a performance evaluation value. Do you have to convict him? Your performance is good, and if you can't convict him, your performance is poor?"

"No wonder, there will be √ and × on it, and my client is ★, I wonder what this means, so it's a big prize!"

"The cases in your Misdemeanor Division are usually minor crimes. Suddenly there is a serious sentence. Do you think you have won the lottery?"

After Zhang Wei performed, he looked at Tan Yingying.

The latter did not speak, but Zhang Wei continued to ask: "May I ask if you insist on convicting my client because of the performance appraisal? Is it because you want to save the face of your supervisor?"

"Don't deny it first, I want to remind you, combined with the testimony confirmed just now, and what you admit to your supervisor, ask yourself, do you dare to give false testimony in court!"

Tan Yingying immediately shut up, too scared to speak.

"Now, please think carefully before answering my question seriously. Is my client convicted because of performance appraisal? Is it to save the face of your supervisor?"

This question also attracted the attention of the audience. Whether it was the jury or the hearing, even the judges on the trial bench looked at Tan Yingying, waiting for an answer.

"Yes, yes..." Under the gaze of so many people, Tan Yingying finally responded.

"You guys, you guys, you guys are like this, I'm so sad..." The corners of Zhang Wei's mouth twitched, with an expression of grief and indignation.

"But, our office is always like this, and the headquarters has always been like this?" Tan Yingying almost cried and argued for herself.

"But you convict the suspect, isn't it for justice?"

Zhang Wei's next sentence made the audience silent!

As if he didn't understand, he asked again: "Isn't the prosecutor exercising his prosecutorial power for the sake of justice, to judge the guilty but forgive the innocent?"

This time, it was a soul torture.

Tan Yingying was speechless, because tears were already welling up in her eyes, and she was about to collapse.

But Zhang Wei didn't intend to let her go, tortured her soul again, and even raised her voice:

"What does your misdemeanor division think of my client as a performance stepping stone, rather than a citizen who needs justice?"

"Prosecutor Tan Yingying, look at me, look at the accompanying club, look at the man sitting in the dock!"

"Come and explain to us that the reason why you sued him is based on the law, for justice, fairness and honor of faith, to find the guilty person, not for the so-called performance, the so-called keeping your supervisor face!"

"Tell me, do you dare to speak out, tell everyone that you are such a person who pursues justice, do you dare to speak out!!!"

Faced with Zhang Wei's roar, Tan Yingying couldn't hold back completely, her heart broke down, and she cried bitterly in court.

"Woooooo...I, I, woooo...I don't know, I don't know, woooo..."

She raised her head, and what she saw was Zhang Wei staring at her with wide-eyed eyes.

Tan Yingying lowered her head again, tears streaming down her face.

But Zhang Wei was completely comfortable, and after so long a backlog, he was finally released at this moment.

After roaring this voice, I feel so refreshed~

He looked at the hearing booth, and saw Guo Wufeng snorted coldly, and walked out of the courtroom quickly.

He couldn't stay in this place any longer, because it was really tormenting to see Zhang Wei pretending to be aggressive in court, but he couldn't stop him.

On the prosecution bench, Xiao Baihe couldn't bear to see Tan Yingying in pain, but she couldn't stop her.

If she acts, she will be sentenced to contempt of court, and she can only leave with hatred.

But she didn't expect that Zhang Wei's question could actually break Tan Yingying's defense, which is no longer something a small lawyer can do.

As for the other people in the court, watching Tan Yingying weep bitterly, they naturally had different expressions.

They never expected that the prosecutor would be able to break the defense during the trial, and they would cry in court!

Of course, this is also related to Tan Yingying's weak temperament. If it were replaced by a strong-minded person, it would naturally be impossible.

Now that Tan Yingying is crying and Zhang Wei is over, it can naturally end.

"Prosecutor Tan Yingying, I'm sorry. The question just hit something in your heart and made you feel guilty. It's my fault. I'm here to apologize again!"

"But now is the trial time, please stop your tears and don't waste everyone's precious time."

"Well, I take back the question just now, and it's time for you to ask questions. If you want to ask and answer yourself, please..."

Zhang Wei said, returning to his position.

As for Tan Yingying, she finally held back her tears, but it was obviously impossible to ask and answer for herself.

This is the advantage of summoning the opponent, so that the opponent cannot cross-examine!

This trick is called shrimp and pig heart!

After Tan Yingying finally returned to her seat, Zhang Wei stood up again.

"Your Honor, the defense has no witnesses to call!"

From the beginning to the end, Zhang Wei did not intend to let the defendant Lin Xiao appear in court for questioning, and this did not give the prosecution any chance at all.

"Okay, if that's the case, then the closing statement will start in 30 minutes. Both sides of the trial will go down and prepare, and the court will also rest for a while!"

Judge Wang took off his glasses and began to wipe them.

Zhang Wei brought defendant Lin Xiao, his wife Chen Lan, and Zhang Hui into the meeting room.

Tan Yingying on the other side was also led off by Xiao Baihe, but before leaving, Xiao Baihe gave Zhang Wei a vicious look, but Zhang Wei smiled back at her.

"This damned guy made Yingying cry in front of so many people, yet he dared to smile at me!"

Xiao Baihe gritted his teeth so hard, but there was nothing he could do.

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After 30 minutes, the court session resumed.

After Chen Yingying finished her closing statement first, it was finally Zhang Wei's turn.

He got up immediately, walked into the court, and said very seriously:

"I would like to ask everyone, what is justice?"

As soon as these words came out, the soul torture just now appeared again in the eyes of everyone in the audience.

Because the prosecutor was asked to cry by the other party, this scene was so memorable that when they heard this question, they all subconsciously thought of that scene.

"Justice is actually very simple. Doing the right thing is justice, but sometimes it is difficult to achieve, because what is right and what is wrong requires a clear boundary."

"I would like to ask everyone again, what is the cause of death of the deceased? Brain death! But there are many reasons for brain death. For a person who fights all day long and drinks heavily, what do you think caused his brain death? When I fell down on the road, was it because I was drunk and then fell, or because I had an argument with a friend or neighbor and finally got angry and had nowhere to vent?"

"There are many reasons for brain death. Even forensic doctors can't determine what caused Wei Hong's death, but..."

Having said that, Zhang Wei raised a finger and pointed at Tan Yingying:

"But Tan Yingying, a new prosecutor from the Misdemeanor Division, told us all the reason she believed, because my client Lin Xiao pushed Wei Hong on Thursday night, causing Wei Hong to die three days later on Sunday night. They I decided that my client was a murderer, so this is the justice recognized by the Misdemeanor Division!"

"I think everyone can hear it. They didn't even identify the specific cause of death, and they didn't even think about why Wei Hong fell to the ground. How much wine he drank that day? Could it be that he didn't know the cause of death?" Is that the number?"

"In my opinion, the Misdemeanor Division just wants to find someone to convict, in order to achieve some kind of ambition in their hearts, such as drawing a big ★ on the performance column on the scoreboard, so that their supervisor can Colleagues at the headquarters have face in front of them, and so on..."

"So I want to ask, is her behavior a matter of justice?"

Having said this, Zhang Wei came to the jury, smiled wryly and said, "If you say this is justice, then I have nothing to say!"

"But please think about it, if my client Lin Xiao was convicted today, then suddenly one day people from the Wuxi Association came to your door and said that they would take you away and ask you to go back to assist in the investigation. You rode your bike so fast last week that you scared a grandma on the side of the road, and then the grandma died three days later, and then you were identified as a murderer, do you think you will accept this result?"

"So everyone, please touch your conscience and ask yourself, what is justice?"

Zhang Wei touched his chest and emphasized again: "Let us feel the beating of our own heart, let us confirm that we are a real person, and then ask ourselves, what is justice, what is tm justice!"

"Cough cough, lawyers, please pay attention to your words and deeds!" In the court, Judge Wang coughed.

"Sorry, Your Honor, I'm so excited, but my closing statement is officially over!"

Zhang Wei quickly apologized, but then nodded to the jury and returned to the defense.

"The closing statements of both parties have been completed, and the court is temporarily adjourned..."

As the judge and jurors entered the conference room on one side, the entire trial scene became tense.

"Lawyer Zhang, you have worked hard..." The defendant Lin Xiao was a little speechless.

"Student, your closing statement is too powerful." Zhang Hui was also surprised.

If it was herself, it would be absolutely impossible for her to make such a closing statement. This is definitely not something a newcomer can think of.

"Don't worry, the judge is on our side!" Zhang Wei returned a confident smile to the two.

"Why do you say that?" Zhang Hui was puzzled.

But Zhang Wei raised a finger: "It's very simple. There is one of the most basic concepts of human rights protection in criminal trials, that is, there is no suspicion of guilt!"

"There is no doubt..."

Zhang Hui muttered several times, then nodded heavily.

There is no doubt!

At this stage, everyone's evidence can't conclude that Lin Xiao is the murderer. It was Lin Xiao's pushing that caused Wei Hong's death, so judging from the fact that there is no suspicion, he will not be the murderer.

Although the people on the trial bench may not know this article, the judge must know it, and will also raise this concept during the final trial and deliberation session.

After Lin Xiao glanced at his wife in the hearing booth, he couldn't help asking: "Then Lawyer Zhang, how long will they discuss?"

"It should be soon, but I can't figure it out. After all, no lawyer can guarantee 100% for the jury!"

This is also a fact. There are 12 people with different personalities who make up the jury. Even the most powerful lawyer can't guess the inner thoughts of 12 people.

He also couldn't control the thoughts of 12 people, so at the last moment, he could only resign himself to fate.

Fortunately, the jury deliberated in 30 minutes

Under the tense expectation of everyone, the chief juror announced loudly:

"After discussion by our jury, in the verdict of the crime of manslaughter that resulted in accidental death, due to insufficient evidence provided by the prosecution, we ruled that the defendant Lin Xiao's manslaughter charge...is not established!"

"Oye!"

When the words "not established" appeared, Lin Xiao jumped up directly.

Zhang Hui showed a relieved expression.

In the hearing booth, some were happy and some were sad. The lawyers were so happy that some even clapped their hands.

As for the prosecutors in the Misdemeanor Division, they were all like deflated balls, without energy.

On the prosecution's bench, Tan Yingying almost couldn't help crying again, but Xiao Baihe's expression was extremely complicated.

She looked at the defense stand, and saw Zhang Wei and Lin Xiao shaking hands, then walked to the hearing stand, met Xia Qianyue and hugged on the spot.

"Zhang Wei, I remember you!"