Lawyer

Chapter 643 Lured to Testify
In the afternoon, Guo Wenzhi's wife came to the law firm and went through the entrustment procedures for the second trial.

Not long after, Attorney Wang of Director Du's team asked his assistant to send the case file materials to Fang Yi. Fang Yi wanted to ask Attorney Wang to understand the case, but the assistant said that Attorney Wang had gone to other provinces for a court hearing and it would take two or three days before he came back.

Fang Yi looked at the back of the assistant leaving, feeling suspicious in his heart. He didn't know whether Attorney Wang was really on a business trip, or he was dissatisfied with Director Du's handing over the second trial of the case to lawyers from other teams, and he was unwilling to cooperate with him. Offending someone for no reason is not worth it.But he thought again, anyway, Lawyer Wang and himself are not on the same team, it doesn't matter if everyone eats according to their own ability.A law firm is not a company, and there are no such complicated interpersonal relationships.

The next afternoon, Fang Yi went to the detention center to meet with lawyer Guo Wenzhi.

Although Guo Wenzhi and Fang Yi both practiced in Wanhua United Law Firm, they belonged to two different teams. Fang Yi had no intersection with him before and did not know each other.

Wanhua United Law Firm does not count paralegals. There are more than 200 lawyers alone. There are two directors in a team as large as three directors.Although there are not many other lawyer teams, there may be only three or four, or even two or three lawyers, but there are also eight or nine.Usually everyone is busy with their own work, Fang Yi can't know all of them.

Even within Wanke's legal team, Fang Yi doesn't know all the lawyers in the legal counsel team and the case team. Most of the lawyers are just familiar with each other, and they can't be called by name, and there is no intersection.

Guo Wenzhi in the detention center has long lost his appearance as a lawyer. No matter what the final verdict is, he is currently a prisoner, so he has to follow the rules of the detention center.No matter how beautiful you are outside, you have to be honest when you get inside, because your freedom is gone!
Fang Yi looked at Guo Wenzhi who was sitting across from him: "Lawyer Guo, Director Du talked to me, and I will defend you in the second trial."

"Yeah." Guo Wenzhi smiled miserably, and looked at Fang Yi: "I think it's quite funny, the seat you sat in before was mine..."

"Since it's already like this, don't think too much. I've read the case file, so please tell me what happened in detail. I need details." Fang Yi looked at Guo Wenzhi in front of him, feeling very uncomfortable.

The job of a criminal lawyer is actually to dance on the tip of a knife. When the dance is done, everyone applauds.If you don't dance well, you will be thrown into prison just like Guo Wenzhi on the opposite side.Of course, you can also choose to compromise, be tepid, and work in a hurry, but even then you don't know when you will step on the red line and say the wrong thing.In short, this job cannot be done well with a lawyer's certificate in hand, and it is easy to send yourself in.

"Well, I understand what you mean. I took a criminal case before..." Guo Wenzhi is also a lawyer, and also handles criminal cases, but he is not as lucky as Fang Yi, nor does he have as deep a theoretical foundation. But he understood Fang Yi's words.

At the beginning of this year, Guo Wenzhi was introduced to Xu Chunming, the elder brother of the criminal suspect Xu Chungen. Xu Chungen was arrested by the public security organs on suspicion of theft. Xu Chunming consulted Guo Wenzhi twice about his brother's case.Later Xu Chunming entrusted Guo Wenzhi with his brother's case.

After accepting the entrustment, Guo Wenzhi went to the detention center to meet Xu Chungen, and learned that Xu Chungen was originally an employee of an iron factory. He took advantage of working in the factory and was familiar with the environment, and together with others stole Wang Batie (pig iron for casting) from the factory many times. ).At the time of the incident, the truck driver who came to the factory to deliver goods drove the truck to secretly pull Wang Batie out of the factory. He was discovered by the factory security department and called the police.

According to the truck driver, he and Xu Chungen were friends. On the day of the incident, Xu Chungen and another colleague surnamed Li conspired to steal Wang Batie from the factory.Xu Chungen and his colleagues helped install Wang Batie on the car.

After investigation, the public security department determined that Xu Chungen and the other three stole Wang Batie from the factory six times, and the value of the stolen Wang Batie was [-] yuan.The last stolen Wang Batie was worth RMB [-].

Afterwards, Guo Wenzhi went to the detention center to meet with Xu Chungen again. During the meeting, Xu Chungen argued that he was not involved in the theft on the night of the crime, and that he had been drinking at his friend Shi Dali's house that night.

After the meeting, Guo Wenzhi invited Xu Chunming to the teahouse and told him that Xu Chungen did not admit to the last theft charged in the indictment. From 3 yuan to more than 10 yuan, the larger standard for "a large amount" is 1000 yuan to more than 3000 yuan. Because there are no special regulations in the province, the starting point for a huge amount is 3 yuan, and Xu Chungen's theft amount is just right. online), if Shi Dali can testify, the last theft cannot be established, and the amount of the theft is less than 3 yuan. The court can only find that Xu Chungen has stolen a relatively large amount and sentence him to fixed-term imprisonment of less than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance; May be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than three years but not more than ten years.

Guo Wenzhi asked Xu Chunming to find Shi Dali to see if the latter was willing to testify.

When Xu Chunming heard that his younger brother's sentence could be reduced so much, he called Shi Dali to his home that day.Then Xu Chunming was afraid that he was unprofessional and Shi Dali's witness testimony was not standardized, so he invited Guo Wenzhi to his home.

Guo Wenzhi introduced to Shi Dali the information about Xu Chungen's theft, other criminal suspects in the same case who were at large, and the meeting with Xu Chungen that he learned from the litigation materials.At the same time, he told Shi Dali that if Shi Dali could testify to Xu Chungen, Xu Chungen's guilt could be reduced and Xu Chungen would be spared several years in jail.Shi Dali agreed to the request of Guo Wenzhi and Xu Chunming out of sympathy.

Afterwards, Guo Wenzhi asked Li inductively in the form of only Shi Dali answering "yes" or "no", and made an investigation material that Xu Chungen and Shi Dali were drinking together at the time of the crime, and Xu Chungen had no time to commit the theft. .

Guo Wenzhi deliberately wrote that the investigators were Guo Wenzhi and the legal assistant, and that the investigation location was Shi Dali's house, and asked Shi Dali to say that Guo Wenzhi and the legal assistant were investigating at Shi's house if anyone asked about the investigation.

Afterwards, Xu Chungen's theft case was heard in public. During the trial, Xu Chungen overturned his original confession in court, arguing that he drank with Shi Dali that night and did not commit the crime.

In order to verify the facts of the case, the presiding judge announced an adjournment.

Afterwards, the public prosecutor of Xu Chungen's theft case, the presiding judge of the court, and Guo Wenzhi went to Shi Dali to investigate and collect evidence together. What Shi Dali said was consistent with the previous testimony.

(End of this chapter)