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Chapter 141 Under trial, one more crime?
Zhou Chaoqun took a deep breath, relieved his nervousness a little, and said slowly: "Our client confessed to the prosecutor's charges and admitted to committing the crime of extortion."

"However, the collegial panel should also be informed that our client is an accomplice. He was completely instigated and bewitched by the No. [-] defendant, so he went astray. The whole idea of ​​the crime was formulated by the No. [-] defendant."

"Moreover, in the criminal act, our party played a relatively small role, and it was only used as an 'introduction'. The specific act of extortion was completely carried out by the No. [-] defendant."

"Considering that our party has a low status, a small role, and a weak sense of existence in the joint crime, I think it should be given a lighter punishment."

Zhou Chaoqun gradually entered the state and found confidence.

"In addition, during the police interrogation, our party was the first to confess the facts of the crime, and voluntarily confessed other circumstances that the police did not know at the time. It should be considered as a confession, and even a certain amount of voluntary surrender."

"Our client is willing to do everything possible to make up for his mistakes and compensate the victims for their losses."

"To sum up, I request the collegial panel to give our party a lighter sentence."

After speaking, Zhou Chaoqun slowly sat down.

The state of mind is quite relaxed.

Comparatively speaking, Liu Mingliang's situation is much better than Wang Peng's.

It would also be easier to defend him.

Zhou Chaoqun was quite confident.

As soon as he finished speaking, before the prosecutor could speak, Zhang Wei spoke first: "Defendant No. [-]'s defense lawyer called his client an accomplice. I don't agree with this statement. Please provide evidence."

Zhou Chaoqun had been prepared for a long time, and immediately held up a piece of evidence, saying: "This piece of evidence is a screenshot of the prestige chat between the two defendants, dated January X this year."

"It can be seen from the chat that defendant No. 3 said 'act tonight and try to get off to a good start'. After [-] minutes, our party replied 'OK'."

"According to the police's investigation, we can know that that day was the date when the two first committed extortion!"

"Through this chat, I have reason to believe that defendant No. [-] played a leading role in this crime."

"In addition, here are several other screenshots of the chat. It can be seen from the many conversations between the two that defendant No. [-] is clearly in a dominant and powerful position!"

Zhou Chaoqun submitted several pieces of evidence prepared in advance to the collegial panel, and continued:

"In addition, the proportion of the two people is also enough to explain something."

"As for the illegal gains, our client accounted for [-]%, while defendant No. [-] accounted for [-]%."

Zhang Wei frowned slightly.

These circumstances are indeed quite unfavorable to Wang Peng.

But with these things, he can't be bothered.

"I recognize the legitimacy and authenticity of the evidence, but not its relevance."

"And the proof of this evidence is not strong enough. Just a few simple chats are not enough to explain anything."

"As for the proportion of the share, it is not directly related to the positioning of the main offender and the accessory offender."

Zhang Wei's understatement easily overturned Zhou Chaoqun's claim.

The latter frowned slightly, and immediately stood up to argue.

then……

Both sides of the court debate became defense lawyers for the two defendants.

The prosecutors are all vacant.

Shen Tianci was also happy to be at leisure, sitting on the Diaoyutai, sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight.

Both Zhang Wei and Zhou Chaoqun tried their best to prove that their client was an accomplice and the other party was the principal offender.

And there are some evidences.

But the problem is that the evidence of both of them is not direct evidence, and they cannot strongly prove their point of view.

The most important conversation between Wang Peng and Liu Mingliang, that is, the one that clarified the specific methods of extortion, was held at the dinner table. There is no chat record, and there is no audio or video recording.

The two defendants insisted on their own words, and both insisted that the other party first proposed the idea and was also instigated and bewitched by the other party.

None of them wanted to pass up the opportunity.

After all, there is a big gap between the sentencing of the principal offender and the accessory offender.

The two defenders naturally took this as their main defense idea.

You come and go, not giving in to each other.

After debating for more than half an hour, it seemed that it was twelve o'clock, but no conclusion was reached.

Although throughout the debate, Zhang Wei always had the upper hand.

But this advantage is far from reaching the level of turning into a victory.

After all, there is a lack of strong evidence.

In the end, judge Chen Zhonghan knocked down the gavel helplessly and announced a temporary adjournment for one hour.

At noon, the court resumes.

He then exited the trial court with the jurors.

"Liu Mingliang, are you stabbing me on the back of a horse? Just wait for me!"

"I'm afraid you won't succeed! If you weren't a bitch, I wouldn't have gone to court or jail!"

Wang Peng and Liu Mingliang quarreled.

He was soon taken into custody by the bailiff.

During the adjournment, they will be temporarily held in the court cell.

Jiang Bai shook his head with a smile, and walked out of the trial court with his hands behind his back.

In the restaurant next to the court, I happily showed off three big bowls of white rice...

Court cell.

"Mr. Liu, let me ask you again, are you sure that the idea of ​​extorting money by setting traps on behalf of the driver was originally proposed by Wang Peng?"

Zhou Chaoqun stared at Liu Mingliang and asked in a deep voice.

"I'll post four!" Liu Mingliang nodded heavily, gritted his teeth and said, "You don't know, that guy Wang Peng runs the train with his mouth full, and he doesn't say a word of truth!"

"Besides, I have been petty theft since I was a child, and I have a lot of bad deeds. If it weren't for his instigation, I wouldn't be reduced to where I am today!"

"Lawyer Zhou, you must help me!"

"Don't worry, I'll do my best to help you. Let's go first. I'll sort out the evidence and rationalize my defense to see if I can find a new breakthrough."

After speaking, Zhou Chaoqun left in a hurry.

As soon as he went out, he happened to meet Zhang Wei who came out of another detention room.

"Teacher Zhang."

"It's good to call me Zhang Lu. The title of teacher is not worthy of me."

"You are a senior, this is my respect for you."

"Haha, you're not bad, let's go. There are less than five or ten minutes left. Our winner depends on this time."

"Yes."

The two chatted and strode out of the courthouse.

One south and one north, run in opposite directions.

The adjournment is an intermission for some people, but for defenders, this is precious time and a precious opportunity.

They didn't even have time to eat, and they wanted to take advantage of this time to find as much evidence as possible, or to calm down and reorganize their defense ideas.

Get ready for the afternoon trial.

An hour passed by in a flash.

"Boom!"

With the sound of the gavel falling, the court resumed.

"Now the trial is reopening, the two defenders, is there any new evidence to submit?" Chen Zhonghan asked in a deep voice.

Zhou Chaoqun shook his head helplessly.

time is too short.

He really didn't find strong evidence.

But Zhang Wei stood up confidently and said, "I am applying to submit new evidence."

Hearing this, Zhou Chaoqun frowned slightly.

An ominous premonition welled up in my heart.

"agree."

Chen Zhonghan said.

Zhang Wei submitted the evidence, which was a video.

There is a display screen on the left and right sides in front of the trial court, which is convenient for playing some video evidence during the ascension process.

At this moment, the new evidence submitted by Zhang Wei was played in court.

The protagonist of the video is a group of thirteen and fourteen-year-old children who seem to be celebrating someone's birthday, and the scene is in a restaurant.

"be opposed to!"

Zhou Chaoqun got up quickly and said, "This evidence has nothing to do with this case."

Chen Zhonghan looked at Zhang Wei with a questioning look on his face.

The latter smiled slightly and said to the bailiff: "This evidence is definitely related to this case, and it is directly related. Please increase the volume."

The bailiff complied.

The voice gradually increased.

Amidst the hilarity, two voice-overs could be faintly heard.

Although it is not very clear, and it is often overshadowed by the voices of children in the video, it seems intermittent, but the basic meaning is not difficult to understand.

"...Oh, I lost my job...money is a little tight...you have to...get some money, otherwise..."

"Who said it's not... a substitute driver... get angry, idiot!"

"...Punishment for touching porcelain?"

"Brother...what year is it...in the car...the driving recorder...monitoring electronic eyes...it's too difficult...a novice...it's really created for you...you..."

"Then...what's the matter..."

"Hey! I...a guest...drinking...traffic accident...don't dare...only..."

"Expand and talk."

"...cooperate...in advance...let the customer ask for money...look at him..."

"..."

As the video played, Zhou Chaoqun's face became more and more ugly.

This is completely different from what Liu Mingliang said!
He was the one who first proposed setting up traps on behalf of drivers to extort money!

"Gudu!"

There was the sound of swallowing saliva.

Zhou Chaoqun turned his head to look, and saw Liu Mingliang's frightened and uneasy face.

He cursed inwardly.

At this time, Zhang Wei's voice came.

"This video records the conversation between the two defendants discussing extortion for the first time. I asked experts from the Forensic Center to reduce the noise of the video and conduct a precise analysis of the sound waveform."

"It can be confirmed that these two voices came from the two defendants respectively. This is the forensic report."

Zhang Wei submitted a report.

Everyone's voice is different, even if you deliberately change your own voice, you can still find enough characteristic points from it to determine the owner of the voice.

In modern society, it is not difficult to find a person through voice.

This reflects Zhang Wei's strong connections and energy.

What happened half a year ago, he was able to find the people who were at the scene at the time, got the video, and found relevant authoritative experts to conduct a precise analysis.

This wave can be called a king bomb!

In fact, Zhang Wei obtained this evidence the day before.

But the scene was too noisy and the noise was loud, and it was impossible to hear the content of the conversation between the two defendants.

He found a professional to deal with it, and he got the authoritative judicial appraisal report less than 10 minutes before the trial.

This time is simply stuck.

"Oh, are you dumbfounded? You thought you could pour dirty water on me without proof, but you didn't expect it to be so tricky, hahaha!" Wang Peng laughed triumphantly.

I just feel elated.

Liu Mingliang looked at Zhou Chaoqun and said in a trembling voice, "Lawyer Zhou, what should we do now?"

I don't know what to do! ! !
Zhou Chaoqun was going crazy.

Giving false testimony in court is too much punishment for riding a horse.

Article [-] of the Criminal Law stipulates that in criminal proceedings, witnesses, appraisers, recorders, and translators who intentionally provide false testimony, identification, records, or translations for circumstances that are important to the case, with the intention of framing others or concealing criminal evidence , constitutes a crime of perjury.

shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention.

If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years.

Originally, Liu Mingliang's participation in the joint crime was not high. Even if he voluntarily admitted that he was the first to propose the idea, he would not necessarily be identified as the principal offender.

But now...

He successfully superimposed a buff on himself. Is this because he is afraid that his sentence will not be long enough and he will not last until the retirement age?
"Defendant No. [-], do you have any objections to this evidence?" Chen Zhonghan looked at Liu Mingliang and asked in a deep voice.

"I, I... this..."

After hesitating for a long time, Liu Mingliang suddenly pointed at Zhou Chaoqun and said loudly, "Lawyer Zhou asked me to say that!"

Fog grass!

Zhou Chaoqun's face changed suddenly.

you sir!
"Shhhhh!"

Several eyes all focused on Zhou Chaoqun.

The latter suddenly felt pressure doubled, and his forehead was instantly covered with fine beads of sweat.

He is a student of the law, so he naturally knows the serious consequences he will face if this kind of behavior is carried out.

If you are not careful, you may have a cool time with Liu Mingliang!
Article [-] of the Criminal Law stipulates that "defenders and agents ad litem destroy evidence, forge evidence, and obstruct testimonials" means that in criminal proceedings, defenders and ad litem agents destroy or forge evidence and help parties destroy or forge evidence, Threatening or enticing witnesses to change their testimony contrary to the facts or to give perjury.

shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention.

If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years.

This crime is a bit long, and the description of the provisions in the criminal law is relatively convoluted, but the meaning is not difficult to understand.

Of course, this crime is not guaranteed.

If the witness testimony or other evidence provided, presented or quoted by the defender or litigation representative is not true, it is not intentionally forged, and it does not constitute forged evidence.

Naturally, he will not be held criminally responsible.

However, Zhou Chaoqun, as a defender, made such a big mistake, at least he would be punished or criticized.

Thinking of this, Zhou Chaoqun felt chills in his heart.

This bastard Liu Mingliang completely pushed him into the pit of fire.

Fortunately, Zhou Chaoqun has a good habit, that is, every time he meets and chats with the client, he will record it.

With this recording, it is enough to remove the suspicion on him.

It's not that Liu Mingliang says what he says!
The collegial panel did not accept Liu Mingliang's behavior of a mad dog biting people, and this case is not a case of this court trial, so no detailed inquiry was made.

The trial continues.

Zhang Wei took advantage of the victory to pursue and expand his advantage.

Gradually, the main responsibility for the joint crime of the two was attributed to Liu Mingliang.

Things were getting worse and worse for him.

"No! How did I become the principal offender?"

Liu Mingliang couldn't sit still, and quickly got up to argue: "Yes, I did lie, but you can't deny me completely just because of such a trivial matter!"

"I'm just a surrogate driver, so I just drive. I didn't ask the victim for money, did I? I didn't threaten them to call the police if they didn't pay, did I? I didn't hit anyone with my car, did I?"

"Why do you say I'm the principal offender!"

Liu Mingliang was excited and argued loudly.

As for Zhou Chaoqun, he lowered his head the whole time, looked at his nose with his eyes, and his heart with his nose, without saying a word.

What if I get tricked by this idiot again?
For this kind of defendant who stabbed the defender in the back, Zhou Chaoqun felt that he was a very kind person without going to the public prosecutor's side and stabbing him twice.

Defend him?

I'm afraid I'm not thinking about farting!
"Defendant No. [-], please speak specifically." Chen Zhonghan reminded in a deep voice.

Court debate is a highly professional activity.

This is not a quarrel in the market place. It is not that whoever has a louder voice and who speaks faster will win.

Otherwise, why do defendants have to hire lawyers?

In principle, the defendant can defend himself without hiring a lawyer.

But you are not from a professional background, have no systematic study of law, and have no experience in court. How can you compete with experienced public prosecutors or plaintiff lawyers?
Just a few sentences can make you lose your way!
Court debates should be based on facts, based on the law, and based on legal provisions and judicial interpretations, to clearly and effectively express one's own views and refute the opponent's views.

Liu Mingliang's sophistry seems to say a lot, but it's all bullshit.

It is of no use at all.

Just wasting everyone's time.

After being interrupted by Chen Zhonghan, Liu Mingliang was dumbfounded.

Targeted speech?

You are a translator and translator, what is a targeted speech!
At this time, the prosecutor Shen Tianci, who had been silent for a long time, said, "Your Excellency, I apply to add a charge to the lawsuit against the second defendant."

"Perjury!"

"Defendant No. [-] made false certificates in court with the intention of mitigating his own punishment and framing others. He is subjectively malicious and the circumstances are serious. Combined punishment for several crimes is applicable and he should be given a heavier sentence!"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone looked at each other.

Jiang Bai secretly applauded.

Wang Peng sneered.

Zhou Chaoqun pretended not to hear anything.

The grandpas and aunts in the auditorium were all amazed.

As for Liu Mingliang...

His face was pale with fright, and his breathing was short of breath.

He looked around helplessly and bewildered.

what happened?

Why is there a sudden extra charge?
(End of this chapter)