Difficult office romance

Ke Ran came back to his senses and realized that it was almost time to get off work. He carefully checked the appraisal conclusion according to the method taught by Ye Sa. In his opinion, as a non-medical professional, the appraisal conclusion was no problem.

Colleagues who passed by Ke Ran after get off work greeted him friendly: "Ke Ran, are you still leaving? There is a new barbecue restaurant nearby. We are going to go there now, together?"

"You guys go, I recently gave up meat, tomatoes, and egg yolks..."

Thursday afternoon, Cen Jing's office.

"How is it? What's your opinion on this case?" Cen Jing flipped through the documents in his hand and asked casually.

"The logic of the whole case is very clear, and there are no doubts. There are no omissions or mistakes in the procedure. It is not a very complicated case in general." To be honest, Ke Ran has no clue about this case.

Cen Jing: "What about the case itself?"

Ke Ran: "Uh... what aspect does Cen Lu refer to?"

Cen Jing: "The modus operandi, causality."

Ke Ran: "Judging from the autopsy report and interrogation transcripts, it is certain that the victim's death was directly caused by the defendant, and the criminal method was a bit cruel... The head was hit many times with a blunt instrument, eight obvious wounds, sunken eyes, fatal hurt on the top of the head."

Ke Ran paused, seeing that Cen Jing didn't intend to answer, and continued: "...Looking at these wounds and methods, this can be regarded as a murder of passion."

Cen Jing: "You judge whether it is a crime of passion based on wounds and means?"

Ke Ran: "Well... According to the materials we have obtained so far, this is the case."

Ke Ran swears that he saw naked sarcasm in Cen Jing's eyes.

Cen Jing sneered, and said, "Case No. 97 of the Beijing Chaoyang Court in 878, let's discuss crimes of passion after reading it."

"Well, okay." Ke Ran rubbed his nose, feeling a little embarrassed.

Cen Jing: "Talk about the defense strategy."

Ke Ran: "Cen Lu, I think that although the defendant is not over 75 years old, considering his current age, the death penalty should not be warranted. The circumstances of surrender can also be given a lighter or mitigated punishment, plus what I considered before …Well, the circumstances of the crime of passion can also be given a lighter sentence, but the victim is the wife of the defendant who has lived with the defendant for many years, so it is easy to be considered serious, and a fixed-term imprisonment of more than 10 years is the best result."

Cen Jing: "It's gone?"

Ke Ran: "Well, not for the time being."

Cen Jing stopped what he was doing, put the case file on the table, supported his head with his left hand, and slowly opened the cap of the fountain pen in his right hand, looked at Ke Ran, and asked casually: "At this age, the defendant Is 10 years enough?"

Ke Ran did not expect that Cen Jing would suddenly ask such a question that had nothing to do with his major.

So this time it was because the defendant was old enough to feel compassion?

But Cen Jing, you didn't see the victim's body, and you didn't have the scenario of the defendant hitting the victim's head with a club in your mind.Intentional homicide is inherently a vicious event. Perhaps the purpose of the criminal law is not absolute punishment, but the principle of crime adaptation should not be broken.A few days ago, Ye Sa's words to himself still echoed in his ears.

Yes, we are lawyers, we must remain neutral.

Ke Ran swallowed, and puffed up, "Cen Lu, I don't think this is something we should consider."

"Huh?" Cen Jing seemed to have expected Ke Ran to say this, but Cen Jing's tone was still lazy.

"Our job is to find out the facts of the case, and what we ultimately pursue is a fair and just result. We should not be emotional during this process." Ke Ran suddenly gained confidence as he spoke: "The defendant is old. It is indeed easy to arouse people's sympathy for being sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment, life imprisonment or even death penalty, but this should not affect our sentencing thinking. I think the issue you just mentioned does not need to be considered at all, nor should it be considered. It just affects your professionalism. It's not like you're asking questions either."

While Ke Ran was speaking, Cen Jing sat up straight, took a sip of water from the glass at hand, and flipped through the paper materials on the table boredly, but still listened patiently to Ke Ran's words before speaking: "Then what do you think is justice? With just a few pages of materials in your hand, you think you can decide whether a case is fair and just?"

Cen Jing looked into Ke Ran's eyes and said seriously: "Do you still remember what was your favorite sentence to add when you first wrote your defense? The sentence that I deleted many times."

Ke Ran thought about it for a while, and said uncertainly: "...the above defense opinion, I implore the court to fully accept it, give a lighter punishment, and protect the legal interests of the defendant?"

Cen Jing: "The last half sentence."

Ke Ran: "Protect the legitimate interests of the defendant?"

Cen Jing: "When I first started in the industry, I knew to protect the legal interests of the defendant, but now I have forgotten it after working for a long time?"

Ke Ran: "...No."

Cen Jing: "Why do we show mercy to the defendant because he is old? Because we are defending him, we should consider him and protect his legal interests. This has nothing to do with inner justice."

Ke Ran: "However, Cen Lu, according to the objective facts of the case and the principle of commensurate with the crime and punishment, the defendant's sentencing will not be reduced to the range of 3 to 10 years."

Cen Jing: "Objective facts? You can confirm the facts of the case based on the materials in your hand that are less than 7 centimeters thick?"

Ke Ran: "At least I can confirm the means and results of the crime."

Cen Jing: "What's the motive? Because of the quarrel with the victim? Is it self-defense or a crime of passion? Just because the victim can pick up a stone pestle to attack the defendant because of the daily quarrel? Since the defendant's method of committing the crime is cruel, why wait for the victim? Do it first? Is the defendant in a good temper?"

Ke Ran: "..."

Seeing that Ke Ran didn't answer any more, Cen Jingwei sighed invisibly, and said to himself: "The client of this case is the only son of the old couple, and the son understands dad quite well."

Ke Ran raised his head when he heard the words, with a look of disbelief.

Cen Jing nodded, expressing his unbelievable acceptance, and continued: "After all, his father endured the domestic violence of his mother for 40 years. The client said that the thing he remembered most was that when his mother wanted to urinate at night, he asked her father to take it away." The basin was brought to the bed. All kinds of insults every day have never stopped, and my father who retired from the battlefield always does not talk to me and does things in silence. For the first time, I couldn’t help but shake off my mother’s pointing hand. It was because his mother brought his comrades in the abuse. The second resistance is the autopsy report you saw."

Ke Ran: "But why did these two people get married in the first place? Is there a reason for the victim's attitude?"

Cen Jing: "Little friend, it wasn't necessarily because of love that two people got together in those days." After finishing speaking, he paused, and added: "It doesn't necessarily have to be now."

Ke Ran secretly felt that there should be something behind this sentence, but now he has no intention of pursuing it: "Cen Lu, I will rethink the sentencing."

Cen Jing: "Aren't you afraid that the domestic violence I just said is a one-sided statement? Are you sure it is an objective fact based on verbal evidence?"

Ke Ran didn't expect: "I..."

Ke Ran was indeed negligent. He who kept saying that he should pursue justice based on objective facts easily believed Cen Jing's words.

Cen Jing slowed down his tone: "Is it possible to understand the defendant's motives because of the domestic violence? You even think that the defendant has finally taken this step? Ke Ran, you told me not to bring personal feelings, but in this case Who is the person with the most income?"

Ke Ran didn't speak, it was him, he was always himself, at first because of the tragic situation of the victim, he brought personal feelings into thinking that the defendant's sentencing could only be fixed-term imprisonment of more than ten years, and later because of the domestic violence he heard, he felt that the defendant The sentence should not be based on serious circumstances, and Cen Jing really only watched his emotional change from the perspective of striving for the defendant's maximum legal interests.

Feeling a cool object sticking to his face, Ke Ran stopped thinking and looked at the source of this feeling.

At some point, Cen Jing had already stood in front of him, looking down at him, with a bottle of... um, milk sticking to his face?

"Okay, don't think about it so much, you have done a good job. I will make up for the drink I owe you privately. If you have a bad stomach, drink some milk. Of course, you can also choose not to accept it. It is my unilateral decision." As a gift." Cen Jing smiled after speaking.

"Thank you... Thank you Cen Lu." Ke Ran took the milk with the warmth of his face. It was obviously an air-conditioned office, but one side of the milk bottle was warm.

My face must have turned red at the time, and Ke Ran thought so in retrospect.

Cen Jing: "Don't be dumb, go to work. I accepted to take you because of Professor Lu, but I kept you because of yourself, Ke Ran, you have potential, you only need experience."

"Hey, Ke Ran, when did you like drinking milk?"

"Maybe, let's start today."

If you want to ask about Cen Jing's first impression of Ke Ran.

Sorry, forgot.

I really forgot.

The first time I received a call from Professor Lu, I accepted this elementary school student as my assistant out of gratitude to my teacher.

Ke Ran was mediocre at work at the beginning, but fortunately he has a good personality, no matter how complicated the work is, he never complains, and the interpersonal relationship in the office is very good.After all, everyone likes this kind of down-to-earth and hard-working newcomer who occasionally plays a little clever, and occasionally steals a little harmless lazy newcomer.

However, it may be because I was always talked about by the teacher when I was in college. Cen Jing found that Ke Ran was always a little nervous when facing himself, and occasionally looked at him secretly, as if he was afraid of accidentally making himself unhappy. .

What are you looking at?I'm just not as vivid as your expression, I'm really not angry.And even if you give a verbal lesson because of your work problems, you will never be killed. Murder is against the law, I know.

Facing Ke Ran, who didn't even know that he was taking a sneak peek, Cen Jing sighed more than once.

Later, Ke Ran slowly became enlightened at work, and began to have his own defense ideas. No matter whether it was right or wrong, Cen Jing felt that as long as he had ideas, it was worth cultivating.

Facing Cen Jing is no longer nervous, but there is still a little restraint.

For a while, he even imitated other team members and began to make coffee for him. Every time Cen Jing returned to the office, he would see Ke Ran digging out Cen Jing’s water cup from the locker, and went to the tea room to make coffee in a hurry. into the office.

Cen Jing thought he was just having a whim, or that his nerves were wrong, but Ke Ran persisted for a week.

Cen Jing felt that if he didn't remind this silly boy, he would continue to go on: "Ke Ran, making coffee is not your scope of work."

Ke Ran: "But Cen Lu, I think Luo Tingting and the others treat their boss like this." Luo Tingting is the secretary of Lawyer He's team.

Cen Jing: "They are team secretaries, and you are a paralegal. Their positions are different."

Ke Ran: "But our team doesn't have a secretary. I'm an assistant. It's just a matter of making coffee for you."

Cen Jing: "You are a paralegal, you just need to do your duties well, you know?"

Ke Ran: "...then who will make you coffee?"

Cen Jing: "...I can do it myself."

Ke Ran: "But...but Cen Lu, other lawyers won't think you...more...um..."

Ke Ran thought for a while, and finally found a word that could almost express his meaning: "Isn't it taken seriously?"

After hearing this, Cen Jing laughed suddenly, and looked dumbfounded at Ke Ran who was opposite him.

Cen Jing: "What is my position?"

Ke Ran: "Gao... Senior partner?"

Seeing that Cen Jing didn't answer, Ke Ran continued to answer tentatively: "Deputy director of the law firm?"

Cen Jing: "What is the higher position of our firm than the deputy director of the law firm?"

Ke Ran: "Director, chief lawyer."

Cen Jing: "How many directors are there?"

Ke Ran understood what Cen Jing meant, "...one."

Cen Jing: "Am I not taken seriously?"

Ke Ran: "..."

Cen Jing: "Okay, go to work. I don't have Parkinson's yet, so I don't need you for these things."

Cen Jing stretched out his hand and drove Ke Ran out of the office like a bacteria, his tone was full of disgust, but he was always smiling, with a gentleness that he didn't realize.

Since then, Ke Ran has never poured coffee for Cen Jing again, but Cen Jing occasionally falls on this silly boy.

Watching him scratching his hair because he couldn't write legal documents, watching him bring snacks and smilingly sending them to colleagues around him, watching him doze off during the midday examination and hit the computer screen, watching him sit on the seat and stare blankly Sluggish, looking smug about some kind of conversation... Watching this person stumbling, getting closer and closer to the professional lawyer.

How about Cen Jing's impression of Ke Ran?

"He has potential and will be a good lawyer in no time. I hope he surpasses me."

This is how Cen Jing answered Professor Lu who asked about Cen Jing's recent situation.

The author has something to say:

To explain, according to Article 40 of No. 75 of the "Criminal Law": "The death penalty is not applicable to persons under the age of 75 at the time of crime and pregnant women at the time of trial. The death penalty is not applicable to persons who have reached the age of [-] at the time of trial, but Except those that caused death by particularly cruel means.” Therefore, Ke Ran mentioned in the article that “although the defendant is not over [-] years old”.

Case No. 97 of Beijing Chaoyang Court in 878 is (1997) Chao Xing Chu Zi No. 878. If you are interested, you can take a look.

I won't comment on other laws and sentencing, just read it and let it go.