Crazy, You Call This a Trainee Lawyer

   Chapter 63 The second witness, the councilor's brother

   "You mean, you found the defendant's fingerprints on the envelope!"

   "That's right!"

After hearing this, Huang Fang looked at the defense table and emphasized repeatedly: "There are many fingerprints on the envelope, although this does not mean anything, but the envelope contains fungi that only the defendant and others can touch, and there are no other researchers on the envelope. Fingerprints, if these two pieces of evidence are taken together, can it prove that the defendant is the person who sent the letter, and she is the murderer!"

  Lin Ruonan paused for a while, but nodded and said, "You can say that!"

   On the jury's bench, whether it was the nurse girl or the housewife, all of them looked at the defense bench with a hint of ill will.

  Wang Yuqing's fingerprints plus the fungi that only she can touch, these can be called iron proof.

"Objection!" Zhang Wei stood up at the right time and retorted: "The prosecution is leading the witnesses to guess that my client Wang Yuqing is only a suspect. Unless the court issues a verdict, all accusations that she is the murderer will be dismissed. It's a transgressive behavior!"

In the face of Zhang Wei's objection, Huang Fang also said: "Your Majesty, I think the testimony of Team Leader Lin can be accepted as the testimony of an expert witness. She is the Deputy Team Leader of the Major Cases Team of the Wushu Association and has more than ten years of experience. His criminal investigation experience is enough to serve as an expert witness!"

However, Zhang Wei immediately answered: "Your Excellency, no one objects to the witness's criminal investigation experience, but there are people who are more qualified than the team leader Lin Ruonan, and the prosecution obviously misunderstood the "expert witness". The meaning of the word, which in my opinion is very unprofessional! "

   "You said I'm not professional!?" Hearing Zhang Wei's rebuttal, Huang Fang was immediately angry.

   "Not bad!" Zhang Wei immediately turned back.

   He looked at the bench: "Your Excellency, the so-called expert witnesses refer to witnesses who have expert qualifications and are allowed to help the jury or the court understand some complex professional issues that are difficult for ordinary people to understand."

"Although the witness Lin Ruonan is a talent in the field of criminal investigation, I believe no one will deny this, but Wu Coordinator Chaco has never rated the title of a so-called case-solving expert, and the deputy team leader Lin Ruonan has never claimed in any public place that he is Case-solving experts, this obviously does not meet the definition of 'expert qualifications' in expert witnesses!"

  Brother Calm looked at the prosecution and defense arguing in the courtroom, just pushed his glasses, but did not express any opinion.

   He was muttering in his heart: This is the first witness, you two are arguing like this, if these are the next few witnesses, are you going to tear down the court?

   However, he still agreed with Zhang Wei's statement, and nodded: "Yes, as for criminal investigation, there is really no so-called expert title rating, and witnesses cannot be accepted as expert witnesses!"

   He looked at the jury bench and announced, "The jury bench cannot accept the witness's inference just now, and the next verdict cannot be based on the witness's final testimony!"

   In this short confrontation, it seems that Zhang Wei won.

   But he knew that the jurors would not listen to the judge. Lin Ruonan could almost say that the testimony against Wang Yuqing was deeply imprinted in the minds of the 12 jurors.

  Huang Fang also saw Zhang Wei's difficulties for the first time. This new lawyer who didn't even get a practicing license could actually confront himself in court without changing his color, and he even had the upper hand.

   It seems that Tan Yingying and Wang Can lost rightly.

   "Your Majesty, I have no other questions about Captain Lin's statement for the time being!"

  Huang Fang ended the questioning, brother calmly nodded to Zhang Wei, now is his time for cross-examination.

   However, when Zhang Wei came to power, the corner of Huang Fang's mouth drew a slight arc.

   "Lin Ruonan is the deputy head of the serious crime 1 team. She is experienced and calm. No matter what questions you want to ask, she can answer them calmly. You can't find any flaws!"

   It seems that Huang Fang has great confidence in Lin Ruonan and thinks she can fight back against Zhang Wei.

   "Deputy leader Lin, hello!"

   Zhang Wei came to the witness stand and said hello to Lin Ruonan.

   "Hello." The latter also politely replied.

   "I want to ask, you mentioned mailboxes and envelopes just now, so let's start with the mailboxes. How long did the serious crime 1 team watch the surveillance video during the investigation?"

   "I haven't made a specific estimate, but it's probably more than 2,000 hours!"

   "Then during the process of checking the video by your team leader, did you find out who delivered the mail with bacteria?"

   "This is hard to judge!"

   "Why is it so hard to judge?"

"Because the bacteria are hidden in the envelopes, and each letter is only a small picture in the monitoring, it is difficult for analysts with good eyesight to judge the difference between these letters with the naked eye, so we can't judge what it is. Letters delivered in time."

After   Lin Ruonan finished speaking, he realized that Zhang Wei might have to ask another question, and added: "But the letter received by the congressman and his wife has the defendant's fingerprints. I think this is enough to prove a lot of things."

   "Oh, since you mentioned the letter, let's talk about the letter!"

Zhang Wei paused for a moment, then pointed to the defense seat: "According to my client Wang Yuqing, many people from their medical university will go to that mailbox to send letters to the enemy, such as paper delivery, submission to scientific research journals, and even letters to family members. Mail will be used, which means that the envelope with my client's fingerprints is probably stained with my client's fingerprints during the process of taking the envelope?"

   "Objection!" On the prosecution table, Huang Fang stood up: "This is the lawyer testifying by himself, and the question to be asked is not clear!"

   "Your Majesty, I am asking the witness if there is such a possibility, so I have used more explanations to describe it, please understand."

   Brother Calm looked at the tit-for-tat two people, and nodded to Zhang Wei: "I understand your question, the objection is invalid, the witness needs to answer!"

  Huang Fang reluctantly sat down, and Zhang Wei asked again: "Deputy leader Lin, is there such a possibility in the situation I just said?"

  Lin Ruonan glanced at Huang Fang, and seeing that the latter didn't say anything, he nodded: "Since you have said it, it is naturally possible!"

"Then is there such a possibility that the murderer is also someone from the research institute, he took a random letter, put it in the fungus, and delivered it to the congressman couple and the other four targets through that mailbox. And the envelope of this letter On, it happens to have my client's fingerprints?"

  Lin Ruonan was expressionless, but nodded slightly: "Well, there is such a possibility."

   "Fingerprints are not absolute, especially for public objects like envelopes!"

   This sentence, Zhang Wei explained to the jury.

  The 12 people on the jury, some of whom looked thoughtful, were obviously considering this possibility.

   "Your Excellency, I have no more questions about witnesses!"

  Zhang Wei ended the questioning and returned to the defense seat.

  Wang Yuqing glanced at Luo Feixiang in the hearing booth, then leaned over and asked, "Lawyer Zhang, how is the situation?"

   "Although you won the jurors' suspicions for you, the overall situation is not good, and this is the first witness. There are many more names on the prosecution's witness list!"

   Zhang Wei said, looking at the jury, more than half of the 12 people looked at Wang Yuqing with hostile eyes, which showed that they still believed that Wang Yuqing was the murderer.

  Huang Fang stood up and announced, "The prosecution has called the second witness, Yang Qingshan, to testify in court!"

  Wang Yuqing came over again: "Who is he, and the name sounds familiar?"

   "Of course I'm familiar with him. He is the younger brother of Congressman Yang and a staff member in the Congressman's office."

   On the witness stand, a man who was close to the dead Assemblyman Yang sat down. He was Yang Qingshan.

   "Witness, can you tell everyone your identity?"

   "My name is Yang Qingshan, but I think that among the people present, not many people know me, but many people know my brother, because my brother's name is Yang Qingrui, and my sister-in-law's name is Jiang Xiaoling. They are all victims of this case!"

   As soon as these words came out, the audience focused on the witness stand.

   Yang Qingshan, as a staff member in the office, works behind the scenes on many occasions, and his exposure is indeed not as high as that of his brother who is a member of parliament.

   But at this moment, as a family member of the victim, all the attention of the audience came to him.

   "Sure enough, the family members come to weep tears again. Although this trick is old-fashioned, it has been tried and tested."

  Zhang Wei also saw Huang Fang's purpose, probably because he felt that the first witness was not strong enough, and directly released the "killing move" in the trial, allowing the family of the deceased to testify in court, and at the same time earn sympathy.

   This trick is used by many lawyers. Although it is old-fashioned, it is very useful.

   Now, both the jury and the hearing, know one thing, this is the victim's family, and his brother and sister-in-law were murdered.

   "Witness, please tell us what happened on the day of the crime?"

"My brother and I drove from home to the office as usual, and the office receiver told us that this week's letters came from supporters and many fans, and some were work letters or complaints. My brother takes letters very seriously because he is a more traditional person and doesn't use email much, but he has a soft spot for letters."

"He opened letter after letter as usual, and my sister-in-law also came to the office. She brought snacks to my brother. In fact, my sister-in-law brought snacks to everyone in the office. She was the most proud of it. of……"

   "Cough!"

  Zhang Wei coughed, then got up and said apologetically: "Your Excellency, to be honest, I don't really want to raise an objection, but the witness's statement is a little bit off the point. Regarding the dim sum, I think I can ask him to omit it?"

Brother Calm nodded, and said to the witness stand: "The defense attorney's statement is not unreasonable. Please combine the witness's statement with the connection of this case. Although I am very interested in dim sum, I should not talk about it in court. !"

   "Sorry, I just can't help but think about my brother and sister-in-law..."

  Yang Qingshan quickly apologized, and then continued: "My brother has to read a lot of emails, but he still insisted on reading them one by one until that one appeared."

"At the time, we thought it was a prank by some fans, and we didn't pay much attention to the situation. We only knew that a bunch of green powder flew out of the email, and my brother and sister-in-law were stained a lot. The rest of us were lucky because we wanted to Giving my brother their own private space, so the **** fungus doesn't infect us."

"Only a few minutes later, the situation happened. My brother has always been in good health. He keeps running every day, and there is no major problem with the physical examination. However, a few minutes after the powder was contaminated, he developed symptoms of difficulty breathing. My sister-in-law There was also nausea and nausea. Two people had problems one after another, and I had to call the ambulance…”

"The next thing, I think you have seen from the reports, they were hospitalized, and the attending physician found that the cause of the infection was a certain fungus. Unfortunately, there is no treatment for this fungal infection, so we only To be able to watch my brother and sister-in-law die in pain, they...they..."

   Having said this, Yang Qingshan on the witness stand wept silently, his expression extremely sad.

   "Thank you for the witness's answer. You can just say it here. We have learned about the rest of the situation through the news. This is really a tragedy."

Huang Fang hurriedly comforted the witness, and then waited for Yang Qingshan to recover for a while before continuing to speak: "Mr. Yang, I invite you to be a witness, in addition to asking you to tell everyone the situation of the members, there is one more thing I want to ask you to help me with. Making sure."

   She pointed to Wang Yuqing in the dock and asked, "Do you know this woman?"

   "Of course I do. She sent many letters to my brother, many of which were threatening!"

  Huang Fang hurriedly walked to the prosecution seat and took a letter wrapped in a plastic bag from Zhao Jing.

   "Your Honor, the prosecution presented Exhibit No. 14. This is a letter sent to Congressman Yang's office. The sender of the letter is Wang Yuqing!"

   "Mr. Yang, please read aloud on your behalf. Is the content of this letter okay?"

Yang Qingshan tilted his head slightly forward, looked at the letter, and said word for word: "Member Yang, please retract the decision of the city councilor to cut research funding, our Medical University Research Institute is working on the development of antibodies against a certain fungal infection, which can save Millions of lives, and what you are doing is causing disaster to those millions, and you will pay for your actions!"

   After reading the letter, Huang Fang raised her eyebrows and said, "Is it possible to think that this is some kind of threat to pay the price?"

"be opposed to!"

   Zhang Wei stood up and looked at Huang Fang.

   "Sorry, I shouldn't have guessed..."

  Huang Fang also sensed his own inappropriateness, but still couldn't help saying: "But whoever made the defendant's words reveal that he wanted to show some color to Congressman Yang, I guess it's not wrong, right?"

   Zhang Wei was helpless and could only look at Brother Calm: "Your Excellency Judge, is the prosecution's behavior going too far?"

   "Prosecutor, pay attention to your words and deeds, don't act in front of me!"

The judge gave a warning, and then said to the jury: "Please ignore the last sentence of the prosecution!"

   But he said, will the jury ignore it?

   The answer is naturally no.

   "Your Excellency, I have no problem with this witness for the time being."

  Huang Fang walked back to the prosecution seat, while Zhang Wei began to cross-examine.

   "Mr. Yang, I am very sympathetic to your situation, so I will not ask you too many questions."

   Yang Qingshan looked at Zhang Wei coldly and did not respond.

   "I would like to ask, you are a staff member of the councilor's office, right? Do you also check letters on weekdays?"

   "Of course, our staff is doing the work behind the scenes, and checking letters is also one of the jobs!"

   "Then I would like to ask, how many letters did your office receive this year?"

This question made Zhao Chunming and others in the hearing box, as well as Huang Fang and Zhao Jing in the prosecution box, slightly surprised.

   "Uh, there should be thousands of letters, right? They can receive dozens or hundreds of letters a week?"

  Yang Qingshan thought about it, this number has not been counted, and he can only give a rough estimate.

   "Then may I ask, how many of them are threatening letters?" Zhang Wei asked again.

   "Threat letter?" Yang Qingshan was puzzled and asked Zhang Wei, "What is a threat letter?"

   "Oh, you don't understand, it doesn't matter, I borrowed the original words of the prosecution lawyer just now, 'There are words between the lines that I want to show Mr. Yang a little color', I think this is the so-called threat!"

   Zhang Wei said, and dissed Huang Fang, causing the latter to frown and look unhappy.

   "Then there are quite a few letters like this, I guess..."

   "Let me tell you the answer. There are more than a thousand clear emails, all of which echo such a threatening tone."

   Zhang Wei was one step ahead of the other party and answered first.

   "Are you wondering, why do I know, because I read all the letters on the scene, and I read them all by myself!"

   Zhang Wei said, and asked again: "Excuse me, is there any content in these letters that is even worse than the threat of my client, such as death threats?"

   "This, I can't say no. After all, my brother is a member of parliament, and there are many people who are dissatisfied with his work. Every year, we also receive a lot of death threat letters, but many of them are anonymous!"

   "What a coincidence, I happen to have an unanonymous letter here, and I also want to ask you to read the letter for me!"

   Zhang Wei said, took out a letter wrapped in a plastic bag from his seat, and walked back to the front of the witness stand, showing the contents of the letter.

  Yang Qingshan saw the content of the letter, his color changed slightly, and it was difficult to speak.

   "Your Majesty, the witnesses don't seem to be cooperating. I'm wondering why the prosecution's letter can be read, but the defense's letter can't be read?"

   Zhang Wei looked at Brother Calm as if asking for help.

   "Witness, please read the letter!"

Since the judge has said so, Yang Qingshan can only speak: "Yang Qingrui, you are a %...% of @#￥, don't think that you can walk away from what you did with us back then, you %&...* &@#￥... I want to kill you, I must kill you!"

  Yang Qingshan was under pressure and finished reading the letter.

   A large part of the central part of the letter was filled with indescribable swear words, and because of his temperament as a staff member for so many years, he also felt a little uncomfortable.

   "Mr. Yang, did you know that this is just one of the more than 20 death threats you received this year, and I have many more letters like this!"

   Zhang Wei said, revealing a set of white teeth.

   But this smile made Yang Qingshan's complexion change drastically.

  This kid, do you want me to read all these 20 or so letters in court?

   This is too unhuman!

   (end of this chapter)