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Chapter 4 Fruit of the Poison Tree

Tribunal No. [-].

Lu Ming was sitting quietly, next to Mrs. Zhen, fiddling with the extremely charming and exquisite long manicure.

Lu Ming is helpless, this guy is really heartless, we are going to the gallows, you know?
The prosecution entered the scene, and four or five prosecutors brought countless documents, and the battle was very large.

Li Mingxuan took his seat at the chief, and Lu Ming noticed the resentment in his eyes staring at him.

And when his eyes fell on Zhen Shi, it was very complicated, there was shame, hatred, but also nostalgia and reluctance.

Han Anni was the last to enter the arena and gave Lu Ming a fierce look.

Lu Ming smiled wryly and rubbed his nose, first love, first love, I am very happy to see you here!Even if you beat me and kill me and think I'm an adulterer**, I will forgive you.

The jury came in, nine of them, both men and women, all well dressed.

Although jurors come from the private sector, they also have strict requirements. First of all, they must have a decent job.

There are also requirements for academic qualifications.

This is the practice of the empire. Only legitimate citizens with stable jobs and a good education can achieve the prerequisites for fairness and justice.

Moreover, they were all selected from another city far away from Wu'an, so as not to be influenced by the local clan.

But it seems that they are all listless now. This case lasted for several months. For these jurors, it was a kind of mental and physical torture.

Just before nine o'clock, the three judges entered.

The chief interrogator, that skinny old man with a hooked nose, was named Boris in the memory fragments.

For such an important case, the presiding judge is naturally the chief judge who is a Westerner.

Although the four northern provinces are governed by the four major warlords, many key positions are held by Westerners, from the county level to the chief judge of the provincial and municipal procuratorate, all are Westerners.

In this world, Westerners call the Gryffinni people, the empire, the full name: the Holy Gryffinni Federation Empire.

But the aborigines, because the Griffinians are from the southwest, are used to calling them Westerners.

At exactly nine o'clock, Boris dropped the gavel, and the trial officially began.

"In court, I request to change my lawyer!" Lu Ming suddenly stood up, "My lawyer failed to do his best to defend me!"

Xie Wenquan was stunned, and looked up at Lu Ming in a daze.

Li Mingxuan got up immediately, "I object, in court, the defendant just wants to delay time, if he changes his lawyer, it will inevitably lead to another postponement of the case for the defendant's new lawyer to prepare time, this case has dragged on for too long, the defendant just wants to wait indefinitely This case has been dragged on, and too much money and court resources have been wasted, and the prosecution strictly opposes the defendant's trick!" Li Mingxuan said sternly.

Boris nodded, "The defendant's proposal is rejected!"

Lu Ming said: "In that case, I request to defend myself."

Everyone was stunned again.

"First defendant, do you know that if you choose to defend yourself, your legal rights will be more difficult to protect. I don't want you to easily find an excuse to appeal." Boris stared at Lu Ming, and then looked at the sitting over there. Lawyer Xie Wenquan, who was in charge, thought it was the seduced lawyer who taught him, so he found the grounds for the appeal.

Lu Ming nodded, "In the court, I have the study experience of St. John's University of Political Science and Law in the provincial capital, and I also have a lawyer's card, so I understand my rights and obligations after I adopt self-defense, and I am also capable of acting as a defender. Defend yourself."

In fact, I haven't graduated yet, but I got my lawyer's license early on. At that time, after all, Yu Yin of the Lu family was still alive.

Boris frowned slightly, looked at Lu Ming, then at Xie Wenquan and Li Mingxuan, and waved.

Li Mingxuan and Xie Wenquan walked up, followed by Lu Ming, and the three of them stood under the high table on the judge's bench.

"What's going on?" Boris asked Xie Wenquan in a low voice, "Have you fully communicated with your client?!"

Xie Wenquan had no idea what Lu Ming wanted to do, but since the lawsuit was lost, this Young Master Lu didn't know if someone would point him out. Whether it was a cornered beast that would fight, or a dead horse be a living doctor, then of course he had to stand in the interest of the person involved. Before, help him achieve his intention.

Thinking about it, Xie Wenquan said: "He didn't communicate with me at all, so, in court, it seems that I have lost the trust of my client, and my client has a license as a lawyer. You have no reason not to let him choose to defend himself."

Behind him, Lu Ming nodded inwardly, Xie Wenquan is actually a good lawyer.

Li Mingxuan immediately frowned: "Your court, it's because they are delaying time..."

Boris waved his hand and looked at Lu Ming, "You can defend yourself, but you can only call a maximum of two witnesses for the prosecution!"

If the hundreds of witnesses on both sides of the prosecution and the defense are called again one by one if they change their defenses, it will take another few months.

Lu Ming nodded: "Yes."

Li Mingxuan was relieved when he heard what Boris said. Seeing Boris looking over, he immediately said, "Your Honor, the prosecution has no objection."

Boris waved his hand, and the three returned to their positions.

"In court, I request that the prosecution witness Zhao Jinsong be summoned!" Lu Ming said loudly.

Hard wooden chairs surrounded by wooden fences on three sides. Sitting inside, coupled with the unique solemnity of the court, makes one involuntarily consider the possible serious consequences of perjury.

Zhao Jinsong is the police detective who found the body of Master Long in the trunk of the car.

He was a young man, very handsome in a black police uniform, sitting on the witness stand to take the oath, his face full of justice.

Lu Ming quickly read his testimony again, got up slowly, and walked in front of Zhao Jinsong.

Zhao Jinsong straightened the discipline button of the police uniform, and looked at Lu Ming with some contempt.

This dandy prodigal son eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles, and has nothing but a better family background.However, the girl I had a crush on was given a bottle of foreigner's perfume by him, and he broke her body. I thought he was dead for a long, long time.

Lu Ming looked at him, and asked calmly: "Witness, what is your relationship with the prosecution's tainted witness Zhao Yuancheng?"

Zhao Yuancheng, who was Long Daxing's driver, was supposed to take Lu Ming and Zhen's home, but now he became a tainted witness.

Zhao Jinsong shook his head, "It doesn't matter."

"You are relatives, aren't you?" Lu Ming stared into his eyes, "It seems that you are used to lying."

Zhao Jinsong immediately became angry, a dog who was about to be hanged was still as arrogant and domineering as before, it was simply intolerable, "You fart!"

The jury was in an uproar.

Before Lu Ming raised his objection, Boris frowned and said, "Witness, you only need to answer the defense's questions. If you insult the defense again, I will disqualify you as a witness."

Li Mingxuan has already stood up quickly, "In the court, Zhao Jinsong and Zhao Yuancheng are only distant relatives. Moreover, their previous generation turned against each other because of the distribution of property, and they never communicated with each other. Now this generation..."

"Objection!" Lu Ming raised his hand, "Your court, now it's the witnesses who testify."

Boris stretched out his hand to signal Li Mingxuan, and Li Mingxuan had no choice but to sit down, but he frequently winked at Zhao Jinsong, signaling that he must calm down.

Looking at Lu Ming who was pacing in front of the witness stand, Li Mingxuan frowned.

Lu Ming's intention is obvious, he just wants to confuse the view, and make the lawsuit look like Zhao Jinsong and Zhao Yuancheng had premeditated, Zhao Yuancheng is Zhao Jinsong's insider, and if this is the case, Zhao Yuancheng's confession will be greatly compromised, after all, he did not witness it with his own eyes. If Lu Ming and Zhen Shi killed the victim, if it was the police again, the jury would have to ponder whether everything was arranged by the police.

After all, Zhao Yuancheng also drove the car, so it was easy for him to put the corpse in, so even if there was indeed a knife with Lu Ming's fingerprint in the car.But it was just a fruit knife, and the defense used it to make a fuss at the beginning, saying that the knife was used by Lu Ming to cut fruit at Long's house, and someone put it in and framed it.

At that time, it was the Western lawyer Donald, who was very powerful.

As he was thinking about it, he saw that the beautiful police officer from the provincial capital who was said to have a strong background was about to get up.

This Police Officer Han especially hates playboys, let alone someone like Lu Ming who hooks up with his concubine and kills her husband.

However, the closing statement is about to come, and from now on, she has to take full control of herself and not let her steal the limelight.

"Captain Han, let me come!" Li Mingxuan whispered.

Li Mingxuan was very confident.

He has carefully considered every detail of this case, including that Zhao Jinsong and Zhao Yuancheng are distant relatives.

It's just that Long Daxing's defense lawyer in the past, the Western-style Donald, didn't hit this point, which made his meticulous preparation useless.

Originally, when Lu Ming asked this question, Li Mingxuan was secretly happy, but he didn't want to, because Zhao Jinsong, a young and up-and-coming police officer, looked down on Lu Ming very much.

This was completely beyond his expectation.

Li Mingxuan looked at Xie Wenquan in the defender's seat again.

At this time, Xie Wenquan looked at the scene and guessed Lu Ming's intention.

In Li Mingxuan's eyes, Xie Wenquan was calm.

Li Mingxuan gritted his teeth. This is a formidable opponent. He must have expected that Lu Ming's interrogation of Zhao Jinsong and accusations of Zhao Jinsong's character would anger Zhao Jinsong, so he asked Lu Ming to defend himself.

But Lu Ming can remember these words and remember how to anger Zhao Jinsong, which is unexpected.

It seems that when people are pushed to a desperate situation, they will really stimulate their greatest potential.

After taking a deep look at Lu Ming, Li Mingxuan's eyes flashed a cold light.

Sure enough, I was right, you should be doomed forever, and there will never be a bright future.

Being able to send you to the gallows with my own hands is something I vowed to do when I was very young. Today, it finally came.

Even though you were the one who cocooned yourself, unexpectedly, unexpectedly...killing someone for her...

Out of the corner of Li Mingxuan's eyes, he glanced at the beautiful figure who was incompatible with the atmosphere of the court, and felt another pain in his heart.

(End of this chapter)