First-Class Lawyer

Brewer Manson looked across the five rows of seats and kept on Yan Suizhi.

For the eldest son of the Manson family, Yan Suizhi was neither familiar nor completely unfamiliar.In the past, they had two direct intersections. One was at a reception of an old lawyer's team, and the two had a glass of wine.Once, in a case about a judge, when collecting favorable evidence for the parties before the trial, the two had a few pleasantries.

Even with such a shallow intersection, it is obvious that Brewer Manson not only does not look like George Manson, but also has a completely different personality. He is a troublesome person who is best not to be messed with.

Although Yan Suizhi was facing Gu Yan, he paid attention to Brewer Manson's movement from the corner of his eye.

This kind of subtle difference can be noticed by Gu Yan who is close.

"Who are you looking at?" Gu Yan looked down at him slightly.

Yan Suizhi, "Brewer Manson, he has been looking at this side. Mr. Gu, you look a bit like a teacher. According to the normal situation, you should comfort the interns who have been kicked out of the shelves."

His voice was so low that the others couldn't hear them.From a distant point of view, it seemed that he was really rambling because of nervousness, but he was afraid of being overheard by other people in the court...

Anyway, it's pretty damn fake.

Gu Yan, who was nearby, was even more impressed by Professor Yanda's acting skills, and replied, "According to normal circumstances, I would not have any interns at all."

And some people open their mouths to Teacher Gu and shut their mouths to Teacher Gu, isn't it a little too natural?

Yan Suizhi let out a dissatisfied "tsk".

Gu Yan looked down at him, and after a while, he suddenly said calmly: "This is just a trial, no matter what the result is, you will always get full marks in the assessment with me." He raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder.

Yan Suizhi: "..."

When he said this, Gu Yan's voice was neither high nor low, just enough for Brewer Manson behind to hear him.After he finished speaking, he didn't look at Yan Sui again, he turned his head and adjusted the optical brain and the seat, preparing to sit down on the seat.

In the process, eyes met Brewer Manson.

"Lawyer Gu." Brewer Manson nodded at him, and greeted him decently and politely but not warmly.

Gu Yan also nodded, "Mr. Manson."

"I didn't know that this defense lawyer was actually an intern of Lawyer Gu." Brewer Manson said again.

"No." Gu Yan denied it very simply, "To be precise, he is Mr. Moore's intern, and I'm just acting as a temporary substitute for a few days."

Brewer Manson smiled very lightly and politely. On the surface, he couldn't see what he thought about this sentence, but Yan Suizhi and Gu Yan knew in their hearts that this sentence made him let go of at least half of it. Heart.

As for the other half...

Brewer Manson cut to the point again, and said: "Last time I said that I must invite Lawyer Gu to taste the winery's new wine when I have the opportunity. Why didn't you mention it when you came to Lyra with the interns? Take the time to drink it." There's always time for a glass of wine, right?"

When he said this, he had a polite smile, but the meaning implied in the words was worth scrutinizing.

According to regulations, defense lawyers and defendants are not allowed to meet victims and their relatives at will, in order to avoid coercion and coercion.Brewer Manson would not be unclear about this, but in his words he said lightly that he would meet Gu Yan for a drink.It is to emphasize from the side that Gu Yan is not a defense lawyer, so don't confuse your identity and interfere indiscriminately.

It was not the first time Gu Yan had dealt with him, and he understood what he meant immediately.However, Gu Yan's temperament is there, and he still answered in a lukewarm style: "Actually, I just arrived in Tianqin these two days. If I didn't have to watch the trial, I might still be in the second district. at the table."

These words also expressed two meanings, one was that he didn't have that international time to accompany the interns at all, and the other was that he came to the court hearing just as a courtesy.To sum it up, he had neither the time nor the interest to help the interns with this case, and the interns were handling the case independently.

The other half of Brewer Manson's heart was also relieved.

He said to Gu Yan: "Okay, I won't embarrass you anymore, I will definitely find time next time, my bottles of wine are still waiting for you."

"must."

Not long after, the judge and the prosecution lawyer also arrived.

Judge Yan Suizhi didn't have much impression, but Gu Yan gave a brief reminder behind him——

This half-gray-haired Luther judge is somewhat "related" to Gu Yan and Yan Suizhi. When he was young, he was also a lawyer at the Decama Southern Cross Law Firm, but he changed his career to become a judge after working for more than ten years. .

"Luther is still in touch with a barrister in the firm, because they were students at the same time and had a good relationship." Gu Yandao, "Later, there were many intersections in litigation."

There is rarely a particularly close relationship between lawyers and judges, but it is not the case that there is no connection at all.After all, they used to study the Fa, and they might be classmates, teachers, students, or alumni. In some cases, they would avoid suspicion, but not everywhere.

In order to gain an inherent advantage in litigation, some lawyers will try their best to build a good relationship with the judge, and hold regular drinking parties to get half-cooked.Even if they don't do this, after many years of cases, there will always be some friendships that are not deep or shallow.

Yan Suizhi was not surprised to hear Gu Yan say that, and asked casually, "Oh, is that so? Which barrister's friend is this?"

Gu Yan: "Hobbs."

Yan Suizhi: "..."

He was speechless for a moment, and asked Gu Yan with a smile, "This guy doesn't have a habit of forcing people to score 0 points, right? At this time, there is no one who can score 100 to save the game."

Gu Yan: "..."

He leaned forward slightly and planned to say something.Hearing that Yan Suizhi picked up the "100 points" who had taken the wrong medicine, he sat up straight again without changing his expression, and leaned back on the back of the chair.

"Can't even mention it?" Yan Suizhi raised his eyebrows, "Don't be so stingy, what were you going to say?"

Gu Yan still had no intention of speaking.

Yan Suizhi wanted to laugh, "Okay, you can be angry. Hobbs' friends are fine, and the judges in the Criminal Court of the Third District can't go anywhere, thanks to the good manners of the judge back then."

Mentioning this, Gu Yan took a look at him.

Regarding the senior judge in the Tianqin Star Criminal Court who is famous for his integrity, many law schools would mention a few words in class, so of course Gu Yan knew about it.

Perhaps because the words were just right, Yan Suizhi rarely mentioned a personal experience of his own: "The first case I took was in charge of that judge. Before the trial, I met his eyes and smiled at him out of politeness. I smiled, but he was expressionless, thanks to him, I didn't get nervous at all in the first trial."

I haven't been nervous since then.

Gu Yan actually showed some interest in this casual thing, and asked, "Why?"

"Because the justice didn't change his expression the whole time and didn't move at all, so I kept wondering if there was something wrong with his facial nerves."

Yan Suizhi is a man who does not distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, and smiles like "look at the little fool" to others, and the same is true when talking about himself when he was young and vigorous.

For some reason, Gu Yan's expression was a little weird.He looked at Yan Suizhi for a moment, then calmly raised his chin towards the small door not far away, "Go to your pre-court meeting."

Yan Suizhi laughed, stood up and walked into the side room attached to the courtroom together with the judge and the prosecutor's lawyer.

Like many times, the pre-trial meeting was still a formality, and soon, the three of them came out of the side room and returned to their respective seats.The defendant Chen Zhang was also brought in by the judicial police.

Every time he showed up, he looked more haggard than the day before.His face was full of stubble, and there was a pessimistic look of giving up resistance all over his body.

He was obviously not in such a bad mood when we met the day before, and he didn't know what he was thinking that night, thinking of himself as if he had been shot.

Yan Suizhi raised his eyelids and glanced at the dock. He was immediately blinded by the frustration from his client, and then looked away without hesitation.

Chen Zhang in the dock actually saw his fleeting sight.

Chen Zhang also wanted to respond to his defense lawyer, but now he really can't cheer up.As the court approached, he felt that his hope was slim, and this bad situation was caused by himself, and he was extremely annoyed.

At the same time, he felt guilty about his lawyer. It was very difficult for an intern to win the lawsuit, and he might even make a fool of himself because he was too nervous to appear in court for the first time. level of difficulty.

"I won't blame you if I lose..."

Looking at Yan Suizhi's figure, Chen Zhang said so in his heart, but his stiff and trembling fingers betrayed him.

For his state of mind, there are people in the gallery who are happy to hear.

The assistant next to Brewer Manson said in a low voice: "Looking at the coach's expression like the end of the world, you can imagine how hopeless the defense lawyer is."

Brewer's eyes remained unchanged, "I don't care, but of course the interns can't make any waves."

In fact, although they didn't have direct contact with Gu Yan and Yan Suizhi, they still knew that Gu Yan was being examined by a first-level lawyer a few days ago, and that he went to the second district as soon as he arrived at Tianqin Star.Asking Gu Yan half-truly before was just a reminder.

"What if that lawyer Gu just wants to intervene?" the assistant asked again.

Brewer Manson glanced at him, "Remember how he comforted the interns before? 'No matter what the outcome', this is basically a tacit understanding. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that he said it to us."

Assistant: "Then—"

"But don't forget..." Brewer Manson said, "he has just passed the first-level lawyer's review and is about to enter the publicity period. He has already passed the round that needs the most sharpness. During this time, he The only thing to do is to be safe. Any smart person would not choose to take a controversial case during the publicity period and participate in something that is easy to cause trouble."

The assistant nodded, and immediately understood more meaning, "Indeed. According to this, when his interns receive this case, he may have a headache more than anyone else."

What's the safest way to handle the George Manson case?

Of course, it is to stock the intern, let him argue boldly, and then lose logically.The sentence that should be sentenced, the case that should be closed, everyone is happy.

Brewer Manson didn't look at the intern again, his eyes fell on the dock, he snorted a moment later, and said softly: "My dear brother George is still lying in the hospital, waiting for the court to give him justice, who And don't try to take the defendant away from here..."

when--

With a steely face, Judge Luther solemnly knocked down the gavel.

The buzzing chatter in the audience seats under the court stopped abruptly, and everyone sat upright, and the entire court was silent.

Carefully selected jury members entered the venue one after another amidst the silence. Under the leadership of the head of the jury, they swore to uphold justice in accordance with the procedure of the trial.

"Defendant Chen Zhang, ID number 11985572, resides at No. 19 Zhangshu Street, District [-], Tianqinxing. He was employed by the Hardmont Diving Club when he committed the crime. He was a diving instructor." The judge spoke very slowly. The words were articulated very clearly, and they looked extremely serious in this environment. Even the people who were watching could feel the pressure, let alone those sitting in the dock.

When the gavel was struck, Chen Zhang trembled uncontrollably, looked at the judge with empty eyes, listened to him read all the information, and then asked with a straight face: "Is the information wrong?"

Chen Zhang shook his head, "No."

"It's you?"

"Yes."

The judge confirmed the victim George Manson's information again, and the prosecution confirmed it for him.

"Okay, then it's your time, gentlemen." Judge Luther nodded to the prosecution and defense seats respectively, and then said to the prosecution lawyer: "Mr. Bard, you can start your opening statement gone."

Bud looks to be about the same age as Gu Yan. As one of the dedicated lawyers of the Manson family, he has a natural sense of superiority, which is not derogatory.This sense of superiority makes him look domineering, which is not a bad thing during the court debate, especially when the opponent's lawyer lacks momentum, it is easy to occupy a psychological advantage.At the same time, it will also give the jury a signal-his claim has sufficient evidence and the facts are clear, so he can be so confident.

Bud stood up and nodded at the judge, and at the same time cast a smiling look in Yan Suizhi's direction.

It can be understood as the sympathy shown by the seniors to the inexperienced juniors.

"Okay, Your Honor. At 12:5 am on December 1, Lyra time, Mr. George Manson was found unconscious in the bathtub of his own suite, injected with H12 sleeping pills, a total of three, this dose is enough It is common sense to kill an adult male. The police conducted a full search and inspection of evidence at the scene, forming a clear and complete chain of evidence, and our evidence catalog is displayed on the big screen."

Bud projected the catalog of evidence on the holographic screen in the courtroom, enough for the jury to see.

"Existing evidence shows that Mr. Chen Zhang turned down from the window sill of the room on the second floor and sneaked into Mr. George Manson's suite on the evening of December 12. With the advantage of his eyesight, he did not bump into the scattered debris in the room and did not alarm him. The service personnel and security guards outside the door entered the room and injected the aforementioned sleeping potion into Mr. George Manson who was lying drunk in the bathtub, and knowing the lethal dose, he used a whole three of them..."

Chen Zhang in the dock hung his head and rubbed his cheeks vigorously. Some of Bud's words came from his confession, which he recorded himself.

Now every time he listens to a sentence, his heart throbs. If possible, he really wants to block his hearing and stop listening to a single word.

Bud eloquently spoke for a long time with a calm demeanor, briefly listing the facts and evidence of the case.During this period, his eyes would occasionally fall on Chen Zhang, and more often on the judge and Yan Suizhi.

For this case, he has nothing to worry about. This is a standard "procedural case" - the result can be known in advance without a court session, and the court session is just going through the established process.

He has too many advantages, in terms of experience, evidence, and even the strength of the victim's family... And what about the other party?Everything is a disadvantage.

When he was very bored before, he even imagined what would happen if he were Chen Zhang's lawyer?But after thinking about it for two seconds, he gave up on this topic because it was worthless to think about.He believed that any lawyer would choose to make a guilty plea under such circumstances, so that the client might be able to win sentencing tolerance.

This is especially the case for trainee lawyers, there is no doubt about it.

But even if it was a guilty plea, he would not let the other party succeed, and he would not be able to embarrass this person with ten faces.

"... Above all, we have decided to accuse Mr. Chen Zhang of premeditated murder." After Bud finished speaking, he nodded to the judge and sat down.

He straightened the hem of his lawyer's robe, put on a perfectly polite smile, looked at the defense bench, waited to hear the young intern speak, and prayed in his heart: God bless this young man, don't Shaking too clearly in court.

Judge Luther turned to Yan Suizhi, still saying every word: "Mr. Ruan Ye? You can start your opening statement."

When Yan Suizhi stood up, he exhaled lightly and seriously. From the eyes of everyone, it seemed like he was taking a deep breath to relieve tension.

Gu Yan: "..."

After exhaling that pretentious air, Professor Yanda's acting peak is over.He lightly tugged the sleeve of his lawyer's robe, smiled at both the judge and Bard, and said, "I won't take too much time for the opening statement. I just want to say one thing. I claim that my client, Mr. Chen Zhang, is not guilty. .”

Bud: "????"

Brewer Manson: "???"