The daily life of American drama detective

Chapter 293 It was Emma who killed her, so what does it matter to me, Esther?

While the court stenographer was recalling the past, the judge walked in, everyone stood up and motioned, and Judge Jackson waved everyone to sit down.

The court officially opened.

As the prosecutor, the bald prosecutor began to charge Esther with murder, attempted murder with dangerous explosives, blackmail and many other felonies!

The witnesses and evidence are here!

"Your Honor, my client neither admits nor denies these allegations because she knows nothing of them."

Harrison Powell, the No. [-] criminal lawyer on the East Coast, stood up as a defense attorney and said something to the judge, and then explained to the jury.

"The name of Emma who actually committed these crimes is Esther's second personality, and Esther is also her victim!"

"It really came."

Randy complained: "I even chose a new name, which is really professional."

"Then invite this Emma!"

said the bald prosecutor.

"I can not do it."

Harrison Powell shook his head and said, "This second personality named Emma will only come out to control Esther's body and help her through the crisis when Esther is in danger."

"Your Honor, the prosecution has asked Esther to be questioned."

The bald prosecutor said, "Or should we call her Emma?"

"allow!"

Judge Jackson nodded in agreement.

Under Harrison Powell's nod, Esther walked carefully onto the witness stand, and swore according to the Bible that everything he said was the truth.

"Esther, how much do you know about this Emma?"

The bald prosecutor walked out of the prosecutor's seat, glanced at Chuck and the others, then walked to the witness stand, and asked Esther with timid eyes.

"I do not know."

Esther shook her head in bewilderment.

"Then do you know why you're sitting here?"

The bald prosecutor asked, "Don't you know this?"

"I've heard some."

Esther shook her head and said, "But I don't understand."

"Where do you not understand?"

The balding prosecutor stared into her eyes.

Esther looked at the bald prosecutor with confusion.

"be opposed to!"

Harrison Powell got up immediately: "Your Honor, Esther is just a nine-year-old girl. She is completely ignorant of what happened, let alone what those horrific events represent."

"be opposed to!"

The bald prosecutor immediately retorted: "Your Honor, fellow jurors, don't forget the certificate issued by the hospital.

Although she looks like a 9-year-old girl on the outside, she is actually 33 years old, and she cannot be treated with the standards of a girl. "

"be opposed to!"

Harrison Powell retorted again: "Your Honor, jurors, my client has a mental illness. Although her physical age is 33 years old, her mental age is indeed 9 years old at this moment.

As the saying goes, when a thing looks like a horse and sounds like a horse, it is a horse!
Esther is 9 years old in appearance and 9 years old in heart, so we should treat her as 9 years old now and give her the treatment she deserves. "

"be opposed to!"

The bald prosecutor retorted again: "Your Honor, jurors, if you follow what the defense lawyer said, then everything is messed up.

As the saying goes, every woman lives in the heart of a childlike little girl.

Of course, it's not just limited to women these days.

Does that mean that in the future, anyone can use this mental age to demand that they be treated as children? "

"quiet!"

Judge Jackson frowned: "The prosecution is allowed to continue asking questions, and the defendant must answer the questions truthfully."

"Thank you, Your Honor."

The bald prosecutor thanked him, looked at Harrison Powell who sat back again, and then continued to ask Esther on the witness stand.

"Do you know who you are and where you come from? You don't know this, do you?"

"I know this."

Esther nodded and said, "My name is Esther, I'm from Mao Xiong, and I'm an orphan. I can only come here because of the kind people in the United States."

When everyone in the court heard this, they immediately smiled.

Although the United States has always criticized patriotic education in countries around the world, stigmatizing it as ethnic extremism, in fact, the United States is the most compulsory and strictest in patriotic education.

From childhood to adulthood, I was educated to sing the national anthem under the national flag, swear to the Bible to only love the United States, and so on.

So when most people hear a foreign orphan say this, their inner national pride is instantly satisfied.

"Do you remember where you lived before you came to America?"

asked the bald prosecutor.

"Lives in Bear's orphanage."

Est said.

"You are lying!"

The bald prosecutor accused: "We have investigated your file with Mao Xiong. You are not living in an orphanage at all, but in a mental hospital."

"What is a mental hospital?"

Esther asked in confusion, "Isn't it the same as an orphanage?"

"Your Honor, my client's mental age is only 9 years old, and he doesn't know the difference between an orphanage and a mental hospital."

Harrison Powell got up and said, "So I can't use this to accuse my client of lying!"

"Prosecutor, please consider your language!"

Judge Jackson reminded.

"Yes."

The bald prosecutor nodded and accepted. After walking a few steps, he suddenly turned around and asked softly, "Esther, do you like neckbands and wristbands?"

"Ah."

Esther couldn't help touching his neck.

"why?"

asked the bald prosecutor.

Esther lowered her head and said nothing.

"You don't want to tell, do you?"

The balding prosecutor said, "Let me help you, because the neck and wrist straps will cover the scars on your neck and wrists, won't they?"

"Ah."

Esther shuddered.

When the bald prosecutor saw it up close, a look of helplessness flashed in his eyes. This Esther is simply a master of drama.

He already knew that this question was probably useless, but he asked it anyway.

"Now that you know the scars on your neck and wrists, don't you wonder where they came from?"

"I'm afraid."

The little girl's fear in Esther's eyes was so vivid, it hit the soft hearts of many people at once.

"be opposed to!"

Harrison Powell immediately stood up and said: "For Esther, whose mental age is only 9 years old, of course it is impossible for her to be ignorant of what is happening to her body, which is unrealistic.

But such a young child has always chosen to avoid those terrible things, because this is the survival instinct that we humans have developed in the evolutionary process.

So I ask the prosecution to stop using this to brutally torture a little girl who is trying to escape her fear.

Because of this kind of problem, apart from tormenting my client who has a mental illness, does not know that he has a second personality, and only thinks that he is still a 9-year-old girl, it is completely meaningless. "

"be opposed to!"

The balding prosecutor retorted: "The defense has been trying to separate Esther from the so-called alter ego Emma without asking key questions.

So we don't even know if there is such a so-called second personality, how can we know if this is just a vicious criminal, trying to use our care and love for children to cover up those cruel crimes? "

"The objection is invalid, and the prosecution can continue to ask questions."

Judge Jackson thought for a while and made a verdict.

"Thank you, Your Honor."

After the bald prosecutor thanked Harrison Powell, he took a proud look at Harrison Powell, then motioned for photo evidence, and after obtaining permission, he showed the photo to Esther: "Esther, do you know the person in the photo? person?"

"know."

Esther nodded: "That's the kind father, mother and younger brother who took me over from the bear."

"Tell us about how you were picked up by them."

The bald prosecutor said softly.

"it is good."

Esther glanced at him, and began to describe her daily life with the family of her first adoptive parents here in the United States from the perspective of a girl.

"Sounds very warm and happy, doesn't it?"

The balding prosecutor looked at her.

"My parents and my brother are very good to me, I am very happy!"

Est nodded.

"Then don't you wonder why they are not with you now?"

asked the bald prosecutor.

"I do not know."

Esther's eyes darkened: "But in the orphanage, I heard that some adopted companions, if they behave badly, will be sent back to the orphanage by the adopted family..."

"But you're not doing badly, are you?"

The bald prosecutor looked into her eyes: "You really don't remember what happened?"

"what happened?"

Esther's eyes were three points blank, three points worried, and one point expectant.

"This happy family who kindly adopted you from Mao Xiong was burned alive at home."

The bald prosecutor said word by word: "And you were not at home when the fire broke out, don't you remember at all?"

"Father, mother, brother!"

Esther cried out in horror.

"Now do you remember what happened?"

The bald prosecutor took out a photo of the scene taken when the police arrived at the time of the incident, and pointed to Esther in the sky filled with flames: "Isn't this you?"

"I, I don't know."

Esther cried: "I just remember being picked up and sent to an orphanage."

"So you have no impression of you in the photo?"

asked the bald prosecutor.

"No."

Esther shook her head crying.

"Have you ever had a similar experience?"

The bald prosecutor asked: "For example, suddenly lost the memory for a period of time, it seems that the memory is fragmented?"

"I do not know."

Esther cried, eyes puzzled.

"Why don't you know this?"

The bald prosecutor asked: "If you think about it, you were doing something at the last moment, and when you remember it the next moment, you were doing another thing. There is no close relationship between the two.

like this.

One moment you were living happily with your first adoptive parents' family, but the next moment, you were no longer in your adoptive parents' home, and were sent to a new orphanage by a stranger.

This is called a memory fragment.

Don't you remember that there were similar memory fragments? "

A trace of vigilance flashed in Esther's crying eyes, and he looked up at his lawyer.

"be opposed to!"

Harrison Powell rose to object: "Your Honor, fellow jurors, my client suffers from a serious physical illness.

Past experiences have caused her to have a great mental illness, and her memory of time and past experiences is severely blurred, which is not surprising.

This is the sequelae of avoiding those terrible experiences.

It is precisely because of this that although she is 33 years old, she is still 9 years old regardless of her appearance and psychology.

This is a little girl's instinctive choice in order to survive. "

"I didn't say there was no such possibility."

The bald prosecutor explained: "I just asked her if she remembered the memory fragments? Obviously she does, doesn't she?"

"The objection is invalid, please answer the prosecution's questions."

Judge Jackson said.

"Have."

Esther nodded: "There was one time recently."

"The memory of that time is what was the last moment, and what is the next moment?"

asked the bald prosecutor.

"One moment I was still chatting with my father, and the next moment I was locked in prison."

Esther said in doubt and fear.

"Then what about your memory fragment from the bear?"

asked the bald prosecutor.

Esther just shook her head and said, "It's been too long, I can't remember."

"Okay, then let me tell you the truth."

The bald prosecutor applied for photo evidence again, and after Harrison Powell objected again to be invalid, he showed the photo to Esther: "Do you know the person in the photo?"

These photos are the photos of Esther being bound by chains in Maoxiong Mental Hospital, madly resisting.

There are also photos of the family of the first adoptive parents being burned to death, the poisoning of the chess grandmaster Patrick Cross, and the bombing of the villa.

"be opposed to!"

Harrison Powell objected obstinately: "This is brutal for a little girl, and I don't understand what the prosecution is trying to do!
He himself said that when my client was with Mao Xiong, he was imprisoned in a mental hospital.

The photo also confirmed the existence of the second personality Emma.

This already shows that my client has a serious mental illness.

She needs to be hospitalized, not sent to jail innocently for an act she didn't intend. "

"Fluffy Bear is not America!"

The bald prosecutor glanced at Chuck in the audience, and according to the details of the previous deduction with Chuck, he quoted the words that he could not tell whether Chuck was straightforward or ironic again.

"We free Americans, when we get there, are often imprisoned.

Our pursuit of freedom is also mentally ill in their eyes. Could it be said that we free Americans are mentally ill? "

"No! This is sophistry!"

Harrison Powell objected: "We are now talking about professional and objective psychosis, not ideological opposition, which is different!"

"I'm just giving an example."

The bald prosecutor explained: "And I don't think this example is inappropriate, because Esther herself said that she thanked the kind Americans for taking her to this beautiful country.

In the home of the first adoptive parents, I enjoyed real happiness.

So Esther yearns for our beautiful American life.

It was not surprising that during the confrontation of the Cold War at that time, he was imprisoned as a mentally ill person.

As for the photo confirming the existence of the second personality Emma?

Any normal American, when he comes to Mao Xiong's side, his freedom is restricted, or even imprisoned, may be in this state of fierce resistance.

This does not mean that there is really a so-called second personality Emma.

Unless the defense lawyer lets the so-called Emma come out and explain herself.

Otherwise, in the face of such evil deeds, we can only assume that she deliberately pretended to have a second personality to avoid justice from the law.

As the defense lawyer said, this is her instinctive choice, isn't it? "

(End of this chapter)