my wife is a consul

Chapter 128
"Your Honor, regarding Mr. Jeff Raynor's ability to plan a horrific murder case, the prosecution has made new discoveries and requests to call witness No. 53, Sirov Lane."

The court just started in the morning, and Lu Ming stood up first.

Richard frowned slightly, and looked at the list of witnesses. He had this name, but he seemed to be just a bum. It had something to do with the case of the chief prosecutor being attacked, but all the cases prosecuted by the prosecution did not include the chief prosecutor. The prosecutor was attacked, so in theory, it is just a fake to fill the witness list, and it is a pawn to attract the attention of the defense.

However, Richard keenly felt that little Renault beside him seemed to be frowning.

Sirov quickly sat on the witness stand, and he looked around uneasily, with a look of panic.

Lu Ming looked at him, "Mr. Sirov, may I ask, do you know Jeff Reynolds, that is, Little Mr. Reynolds?"

Sirov nodded.

"How did you know each other?"

"Two years ago, at the casino, I was caught by Mr. Renault because I lost a bet and cheated. Later, he gave me a sum of money and asked me to approach Miss Nicole Hepburn's assistant to find out about Miss Nicole's movements ..."

"Wow", the jury was in an uproar, and they all whispered to each other.

"No, it has nothing to do with this case." Richard raised his hand.

Lu Ming looked at the judge's bench, "Your Honor, I guarantee that the witness's confession has a great relationship with this case!"

Judge Dempsey looked at Lu Ming and thought for a while, "Get to the point as soon as possible!"

Lu Ming turned to Sirov again, "Mr. Sirov, is the Ms. Nicole Hepburn you're talking about not long ago the movie star who just announced the termination of her contract with Reynolds Films, Miss Nicole Hepburn?"

"Yes." Sirov nodded.

Although I guessed that it was the big star Nicole just now, there was still a commotion in the auditorium and the jury bench.

"What did you do with the money and convenience provided by Mr. Renault?"

"I caught up with Miss Nicole's assistant and became boyfriend and girlfriend with her. Then, I reported Miss Nicole's movements to Mr. Renault."

"Recently, something happened that disturbed you?"

"Yes, since two months ago, Mr. Little Renault asked me to find out why Miss Nicole didn't renew her contract, and to find out her real thoughts. One month ago, he also ordered me to send all Miss Nicole's itinerary Reporting to him every day, and shortly thereafter, the attack on Miss Nicole happened."

The auditorium and jury seats were even more uproarious.

Lu Ming nodded: "Miss Nicole was attacked, and I was there at the time. It happened that she hitched a ride with me, and was attacked by sixteen armed thugs. Fortunately, my bodyguards were strong enough, otherwise, Miss Nicole It's gone forever."

The auditorium and jury seats were in chaos.

The attack on Lu Ming and Nicole was suppressed by the Supreme Prosecutor's Office, so the media didn't report much. Even those who are well-informed know that Nicole was assassinated by a gunman, but they don't know the details.

Richard raised his hand: "I think it is immoral for the prosecution to imply that my client is responsible for the attack on Miss Nicole just by relying on the confession of a gambler. The chief prosecutor is very unprofessional. It also makes the testimony of witness No. 53 suggestively biased, and I request the court to withdraw the testimony of witness No. 53."

Judge Dempsey nodded, and said to Lu Ming: "Your questioning method has crossed the line." Turning around, he wanted to tell the jury that the dialogue between the prosecution and the witnesses was abolished just now, and the jurors should pretend that they didn't hear this paragraph. dialogue.

"My lord, I have another witness to call, and I just persuaded her to testify in court this morning. I ask your lord to allow her to appear in court. Her statement is closely related to that of witness No. 53. Only Only after listening to the confessions of the two of them can we have a clearer understanding of the case, and I beg your honor to give the jurors a chance to learn the truth!"

Before Richard objected, Judge Dempsey waved, and Lu Ming and Richard came to the bench.

"What new witness?" Dempsey looked at Lu Ming with a stern tone, "Besides, you are provoking the emotions of the jurors to put pressure on me?!"

"It's the mistress of the mob leader who attacked Nicole. She only agreed to testify in court today. It is strongly related to the testimony of No. 53, and it also has a direct revealing effect on the key issues of this case. Your honor, you have no reason not to listen. Her testimony! Even if my new evidence is not what I said, you can punish me, but now, you cannot refuse my new witness to testify."

"If you refuse her to testify in court, I will sue you and request a change of the presiding judge. I heard that you had dinner with old Renault last night!"

Lu Ming quietly looked at Judge Dempsey with firm eyes.

Richard was slightly taken aback. Since the beginning of the trial, this young man seemed to have turned a blind eye to the judge's deliberate difficulties.

Is that because the previous few lessons were not very important to him?From now on, did he get to the point?
Richard suddenly felt a little uneasy. He had never felt this way since he took up this case.

Moreover, Dempsey had dinner with Old Renault yesterday?I didn't know it myself, and I was completely covered up. How did this young man know?
"Sir Renault is not a suspect, and I just met him for dinner, which is not against the rules!" Dempsey looked at Lu Ming coldly, "If you threaten me again, I will sentence you to contempt of court and put you in prison immediately !"

After that, he sat upright, "Allow the prosecution's new witness to appear in court!"

Soon, a girl with blond hair and blue eyes in avant-garde clothes sat on the witness stand.

"Miss Amanda, may I ask, do you know Biller Marcus? The one nicknamed Iron Mountain?"

The girl nodded slightly: "Yes, I am his mistress."

Lu Ming looked at the jury, "This Mr. Biller is one of the backbone of White Rose No. 4. According to the statements of the captured personnel, there were 11 murders, and he was involved. However, he and his Companion, was shot dead by my bodyguard when attacking Miss Nicole."

Amanda sighed softly, "I know, he is not a good person."

"Then why are you with him?"

"Life forces it!" Amanda shook her head, "Besides, he treats me very well. Few people know of my existence, including his closest friends. He said that neither he nor his friends are good people. If one day he lays dead on the street, maybe I will be in danger too, and if no one knows me, I will be safe."

Lu Ming nodded, and said that you were very difficult to find. There were more than a dozen thugs, and many family members were found, but none of them found your existence. It was even more surprising. From the discovery of your existence to Richard's frank defense Strategies for Jr.'s mental disorder issue came to you that day and convinced you to testify.

It's also because of an angle that the opponent didn't even think of.

Little Renault wanted Biler to kill Nicole, but he did not tell the old Renault, let alone tell Richard.

He thought that Biller and others were all dead, and there would be no trouble.

Therefore, no matter how careful Richard's plan was, he would never have imagined that Nicole would be attacked out of nowhere.

Naturally, there was no fanfare to find relatives and friends of Biller and others.

From a certain point of view, such omissions should be regarded as more evil than good. In such a big case, it is always more difficult to conceal the crime than to expose the crime.

"When was the last time Bill saw you?"

"On the morning of his death, he asked me to go to his house. He was depressed. I've never seen him so depressed. He talked to me a lot. He said that he might get into a catastrophe. Perhaps, the ending will be very tragic, because someone originally wanted him to frighten the big star Miss Nicole, but Mr. Renault gave him a lot of money and asked him to kill Miss Nicole. The big shot is different from the people he killed before, and it is impossible to hide it. If the police find any clues, he thinks that Mr. Renault Jr. will kill him in advance."

"No, hearsay evidence!" Richard frowned and raised his hand.

"Little Mr. Renault, I was there when I went to give the money. That morning, I remember it very clearly. It was also the day Miss Nicole was attacked, and it was also the day he...he died. It was September 9nd, and I I was listening to his sad farewell at his house. Mr. Renault Jr. went, and Biller hid me in the closet. Mr. Renault Jr. didn’t know my existence, but I saw Renault Jr. giving him money through the gap in the closet, Slapped him in the face and said, if Nicole doesn't die today, Biller will die tomorrow!"

Amanda looked at Little Reynolds, "I will never forget the horrible way he said that."

The jury was paralyzed, and the blockbusters were thrown out one after another, making people a little at a loss.

Some jurors were frightened when they saw Little Reynolds staring at Amanda with terrifying eyes.

Of course, only a few jurors saw him, and Little Renault quickly lowered his head.

"My lord, since the new evidence from the prosecution is a surprise attack, the defense needs time to study and prepare. I implore the judge to adjourn the court and give the defense sufficient preparation time to ensure the fairness of this lawsuit!" Richard stood up, Obviously a little confused, I want to spend more time to sort out my thoughts, and study the prosecution, or in other words, study the strategy of this young man.

The case of the chief prosecutor being attacked suddenly turned into the case of the superstar Nicole being attacked.

Little Renault is the mastermind?

However, the prosecution did not use Nicole's attack to prosecute Reynolds Jr.

Today, the prosecution's breakthrough is not in its own preparations at all, and the prosecution seems to have not launched a vigorous attack on what it has focused on preparing.

Lu Ming looked at the judge's bench: "In court, I'm actually not trying to prove that Little Reynolds was the mastermind behind the attack on Miss Nicole, so the defense doesn't need to prepare anything."

"What I want to say is that from spending money to hire a hooligan to enter Miss Nicole's life and learn about Miss Nicole's movements, to when Miss Nicole refused to renew the contract, I asked the hooligan to ask Miss Nicole every day. The itinerary, and then, the attack on Miss Nicole happened."

"Miss Amanda again, proved that Mr. Reynolds gave money to the leader of the mob who attacked Miss Nicole, and personally confessed to Miss Nicole's life."

Lu Ming looked at the jurors, "Of course, if we prosecute Mr. Renault Jr. as the mastermind of the attack on Ms. Nicole, then, based on the benefit of doubt, there may be some shortcomings in the chain of evidence. , but some courts, I believe, have done enough to convict Raynor Jr.”

"But here, I'm not asking you to convict Little Renault as the mastermind of the attack on Miss Nicole."

"Instead, according to Walker, the psychiatrist of the defense, and the popular science of experts and scholars of various mental illnesses in newspapers recently, we can know that mentally ill patients are incapable of organizing and planning groups to commit crimes with a clear mind."

"Mr. Walker, it took only a dozen days to come to the conclusion that Mr. Renault Jr. murdered in hallucinations."

"Just because, when there is some music, and when there is a straw, Mr. Reynolds will pick up a knife and hack? I think there will be hundreds of people in Reynolds Films who are more psychotic than Mr. Reynolds, There are also many good acting skills in the group performances!"

There are jurors, and I can't help but want to laugh.

Richard frowned and stood up: "I object, I don't think Mr. Walker's professionalism should be insulted like this."

Lu Ming nodded: "Of course, Mr. Walker is very professional, but mental illness and the patient's cognition level are sometimes very vague. There are science tips."

Richard frowned, why did these newspapers have the opposite effect recently?

Then he suddenly raised his head to look at Lu Ming, everything was done on purpose by this guy?Playing dead in court all the time is to make some elements of mental illness more and more obvious in newspaper discussions?

After all, I didn't ask the jurors to isolate information from the outside world, and neither did the prosecution.

The outside public opinion is extremely beneficial to the defense, and of course I will not take the initiative to ask the jurors to be isolated from the outside world.

But the prosecution has never made this request, and I am very surprised.

Yes, on purpose?
This guy has actually been controlling the progress of the case?
Exactly the same as the few cases he fought before?In fact, it is all controlled from beginning to end?

At that time, watching the few cases he fought, I was still laughing at his opponents, and I didn't know that I was in the urn.

But if you really fight against him, you obviously already value him very much, but you still fall into his trap?

Lu Ming didn't pay attention to what Richard was thinking, and continued: "Even if Little Lei Nuo has mental problems, but when he kills, must he not be aware of anything at all?"

"He really didn't know that he had killed someone? Every time, Booker and his henchmen hid it very well? If Mr. Renault knew that he had killed someone, why didn't he ever turn himself in?"

"Little Mr. Renault, doesn't he know anything about sleeping with his brain? Why has he never sought spiritual treatment?"

Lu Ming looked at the jury and said seriously: "According to our law, in fact, psychiatrists are really in a state of hallucination when identifying whether their mentally ill patients are murdering, and they do not have authority in court. Sex, but you need to listen, think, and judge, and here, there is no question of the benefit of doubt being attributed to the defendant."

"Similarly, the testimonies of two witnesses corroborate each other, which can prove that the defendant made a terrorist attack planned by an impossible organization under the state of mental illness. Here, I am not asking you to be accused of planning to attack Nicole. Conviction, too, no benefit of doubt accrues to the defendant."

"Instead, I ask you to open your eyes and judge fairly. Based on the evidence of both the prosecution and the defense, is Little Renault a mental patient or not?"

"I think everyone will come to the same conclusion."

"Some media think that I am obsessed with the defendant. In fact, it is not true. All I want is the truth."

"If these two witnesses are perjured under my instigation, then my end will be miserable, and you all understand this."

"Okay, let's take a step back. If Mr. Renault Jr. will kill people who have nothing to do with him with a group of thugs when he is sick, and when he is not sick, he will secretly plan to get rid of people who don't suit him. , and, someone like Nicole, the big star, just because he doesn't want to renew the contract, he will kill him!"

"He is still sleeping with his brain in his arms."

"Isn't such a person more terrifying?"

"The crime of endangering public safety in the first degree is the crime set up for such people. Fortunately, as one of the ancient prosecution charges, it has not been completely abolished."

"Objection, the prosecution..." Richard stood up, wanting to object to this guy's usual closing statement during the trial.

I also object to the prosecution's repeated claims that they did not ask the jury to convict Reynold Jr. of plotting to attack Nicole.

But I feel awkward when I object, and even if I object, it will not change anything in essence.

Looking at the jurors, many of them were thinking about Lu Ming's words.

Killing a Central Continent person in a mentally ill state, and hiring a dozen thugs to kill one of the most famous stars in the Western world while in a sober state, is such a person really not scary enough?

Sleeping with my brain in my arms...

Richard suddenly regretted it, as if some things had been done too much, and it was too late.

(End of this chapter)